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While I appreciate the term "vegetarian gravy" is practically an oxymoron, nevertheless I have been tasked with fashioning such this coming weekend.


Can anyone recommend any recipes that don't taste of little more than celery and marmite? I have, of course, JFGIed, but am hoping that the caring sharing bosom of the EDF may yield some reliably choice morsels.

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I made this up off the cuff recently when doing a roast for a vegetarian friend. It worked very well.


Caramelise onions in butter


Add garlic and finely chopped mushrooms


Add lots of balsamic vinegar


Add a little tomato paste


Add some rosemary


Add some vegetable stock


Thicken with flour

I do something very similar.



Fry cubes of pancetta in butter, add onions and caramelise


Add garlic and finely chopped mushrooms


Add lots of balsamic vinegar


Add a little tomato paste


Add some rosemary


Add some vegetable stock


Carefully pick through and remove pancetta cubes


Thicken with flour



Visiting veggies can't get enough of it.

I made my first onion gravy recently - enough for two. Chop one med. size onion very finely, cook in a little oil until caramelised. Add 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and continue cooking a minute or so until mixed in. Add 1/2 level tsp mustard powder, some worcester sauce, & veg Bisto for thickening, mix well then add cooking water from the vegetables (if you have any) and simmer a few more minutes - simple, quick and tasty.

Brendan's recipe is not far off but I would leave out the mushrooms, tom puree and balsamic and add mushroom ketchup and kikkoman soy sauce.


Caramelise the onions slowly to release their natural sugars, add flour and slowly add stock (fattened up with the mushroom ketchup, soy sauce, lea and perrins and a spoon or two of redcurrant jelly) - adjust seasoning.

True, true,


Ok, given the anchovy and pancetta related difficulties I'd go with

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Fry onions in butter and caramelise


Add garlic and finely chopped mushrooms


Add lots of balsamic vinegar


Add a little tomato paste


Add some rosemary


Place in water with bison head and simmer for 9 hours


Remove bison head


Thicken with flour and reduce

Beef Bisto has no meat products in its ingredient list ...


Some of the ingredients in Bisto Beef Ready To Use Gravy are definitely not vegetarian:


Water, Maize Starch, Flavouring, Wheat Flour, Salt, Yeast Extract, Sugar, Beef Stock (0.4%) (Beef Stock, Salt), Beef Dripping (0.4%), Onion Powder, Roast Barley Malt Extract, Black Pepper.

Why would you want someone who is so anal that they make you jump through hoops to like you?


It's very rare to find a vegetarian intelligent enough to recognise the flaws in their fastidious behaviour, and those that are wouldn't pick through ingredient lists looking for the slightest infraction.


Ergo, RosieH, you are sacrificing yourself for an idiot. Where is your self respect? Hit them in the face.

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