Easy Vegan Mushroom Recipes With Rich Creamy Gravy - Gloriously Vegan - Plant Based Recipes & Nutrition For Your Mind, Body & Soul (2024)

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It's also excellent to serve over steamed vegetables, a pile of mash, or for mopping up with any starchy vehicle of choice that you serve with dinner (pasta, rice, polenta, bread). It's endlessly versatile. In short: Mushroom Gravy is a life essential, believe me! Schnitzel with mash smothered with Mushroom Gravy.

Homemade mushroom gravy ingredients are simple. All you need is some butter, onion, sliced mushrooms, flour, salt, pepper, beef stock (I prefer stock over broth for gravies), heavy cream, and a little bit of Worchestershire sauce.

Use Cornstarch or Arrowroot

In a separate bowl, mix a tablespoon of cornstarch or arrowroot with an equal amount of cold water, creating a slurry. Stir until the mixture is smooth, then slowly pour it into your soup while stirring constantly. Allow the soup to simmer for a few minutes until it thickens.

Simply Organic Vegetarian Brown Gravy Seasoning Mix

For those who eschew mushrooms, this vegan brown gravy is your saving grace!

Original beef, chicken, lamb, pork & turkey

These flavours of gravy granules contain meat powder so they are neither vegan nor vegetarian. More recently, Bisto has released a vegan-friendly meat-free range of gravy granules, which includes chicken flavour and beef flavour.

Basically, the most common American-Chinese Cantonese sauce (like for beef and broccoli) is almost always Oyster Sauce, Soy sauce, Corn Starch, sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, Chicken/Pork/Beef stock and optionally sesame oil. Many people add additional MSG powder to the sauce.

While you're most likely to have flour or cornstarch in the pantry, there are other substitutes you can use to thicken gravy, following the same instructions for creating a slurry: Arrowroot.

My family most often eats brown gravy, made from meat drippings and broth added to a roux, with mashed potatoes and a protein plus vegetables. In my family, it's often roast beef or turkey/chicken or meatballs. We also will do the gravy with meatballs and egg noodles instead of potatoes.

Throughout the United States, gravy is commonly eaten with Thanksgiving foods such as turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing. One Southern United States variation is sausage gravy eaten with American biscuits. Another Southern US dish that uses white gravy is chicken-fried steak.