/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10858489
>paleo gravy
>it's never thick enough

>>10858489
Huh?

It can always be difficult when eyeballing the ratio of water to instant powder, but less is more anon.

you can always cheat and use corn starch

>>10858568
Fuck off you paedo

>>10858568

No, this is the way. Dark fonde and corn starch.

>>10858489
Here's my basic procedure.
Procure a pan with some fond in it. If you don't have that leftover from a roast or something else, then make it by cooking some meat & mirepoix in your saucepan. Add a little flour to the pan and make a roux. Deglaze with wine. Red wine for brown gravy, white wine for white gravy. Pour in some good homemade stock (the gelatin is key for nice thick texture and you don't get that from canned shit or bouillon cubes). Reduce. You can choose to either puree the meat and mirepoix in there, or you can strain it out. Your choice depending on what you're going for. Taste and season with S&P. Right before serving whisk in a lump of butter.

That's the basics.

>>10858568
>>10858578
>>10858588
>>10858594

Well the main ways to make a gravy from fonde are either with a roux or starch.

If you're demanding to do keto or paleo, you need to go to a health store and get xantham gum or guar gum, which is actually a plant fiber that absorbs water to make a gel-like consistency

>>10858489
Mix butter and flour into a paste, add to the gravy until it is thick enough.

>>10858489
You know, the only gift I ever got my stepmother for christmas or some shit was a gravy thinger like that one you got there. I didn't put any thought into it, aside from the fact that women liked cooking stuff so I picked up a gravy container. She hated me, but she thanked me for the gravy dish and said she needed one cause she didn't have one. I mean, it was good that she liked it I guess. But I never once saw her use that gravy thing the whole time I lived there. Why would she thank me if she clearly did not want that gravy thing? I even looked through the cupboards to see if it was sitting somewhere, but not only did she not use it, it wasn't anywhere to be found. Did she really smash that gravy thing just to spite me in some way?

I'll never know what the deal with that was.

>>10858754
It's polite to thank someone for a gift even if you don't like the item gifted.

>>10858783
yeah if you like the person, but she hated me. it was very peculiar to ever receive any sort of positive feedback. That literally might have been the only instance.

>>10858489
xanthan gum
guar gum

>>10858568
How is that cheating? That's how you make gravy. Otherwise it's jus.

>>10858489
Add milk

Do like grandma did and make it with the chicken grease

>>10858754
probably one of those instances where you think you need something, but then once you actually get it you realize it's kind of useless and not at all worth the trouble