Best Turkey Gravy Always !!

There are three reasons nosotros LOVE this turkey gravy. First of all, it is rich, savory and has a delicious concentrated turkey flavour (the form that you CAN NOT instruct from a packet or a jar). Secondly, you tin post away make this gravy a 24-hour interval ahead of time and escape those "last minute" vacation scheduling conflicts or the dreaded "I involve merely 1 to a greater extent than stove burner" issues. Thirdly, the recipe makes plenty for a large turkey dinner AND plenty for those scrumptious "day two" hot turkey sandwiches!!

 

It may audio similar this recipe makes a ton of gravy, but don't forget that the liquid "cooks down" for an hour, hence genuinely you'll destination upward alongside most 5 cups of proficient rich gravy, which is merely perfect.

6 turkey wings (or four turkey drumsticks)
2 small onions (or 1 large) peeled together with quartered
1 loving cup water
2 quarts turkey broth (divided) (chicken broth volition move inwards a pinch)
1 loving cup chopped carrot
1 loving cup large chop celery
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/2 to 3/4 cup all role flour (see Federal Reserve notation below)
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 teaspoon dark pepper
*(note don't add together tabular array salt until the end)

Put the turkey wings (or drumsticks), quartered onions together with 1 loving cup of H2O inwards a large baking pan. Make certain the pan is big plenty hence that the wings are non on overstep of each other.

Bake inwards preheated 400°F oven for 1 1/2 hours or until wings are overnice together with golden.

 

Put the turkey together with onion into a large soup pot. Add 1 loving cup of H2O to the master baking pan together with stir/scrape upward all of the baking bits stuck to the bottom of the pan. Pour it all over the meat inwards the soup pot.

Add vi cups of turkey broth to the soup pot, along alongside the carrot, celery together with dried thyme leaves. Make certain the "browned" side of the wings are downward inwards the broth. Bring it all to a boil, together with then trim back the rut to a SLOW SIMMER together with ready UNCOVERED for 1 1/2 hours.

NOTE: Turkey broth is the best for this recipe if y'all tin post away honour it. Locally, I've institute it at Walmart, Carrs and Three Bears. If y'all can't honour it, merely utilization chicken stock.

Recipe uses 2 of these boxes

After the broth has simmered for 1 1/2 hours, take away the meat from the broth (it tin post away live saved for a dissimilar utilization if y'all desire to, but y'all won't involve it for the gravy).

Strain the broth (throwing away the veggies) together with furnish broth to soup pot. Bring  the broth to a gentle boil.

Whisk the flour into the remaining 2 cups of chicken broth until smoothen together with gradually whisk it into the simmering turkey broth. Cook and stir until thick.  Stir inwards butter together with pepper.

IMPORTANT: Taste the lastly gravy for salt. I unremarkably destination upward adding most 3/4 teaspoon of tabular array salt earlier serving.

NOTE: How much flour y'all utilization to brand your gravy depends on how much liquid broth y'all convey afterwards it's boiled. I unremarkably destination upward using 1/2 loving cup of flour.

 

 

 

NOTHING says Thanksgiving similar a cracking gravy!!

 

ENJOY!!