This vegan mushroom gravy is fab
Is gravy a sauce? Is it its own category?
Whatever.
This vegan mushroom gravy is super, duper delicious. And with one pan and a Vitamix to finish it, you got yourself some gourmet gravy.
What’s this gravy good for? Glad you asked.
[Note: This recipe is essentially this awesome wild mushroom gravy from The Clean Dish. We just simplified things a bit and adjusted for preferred results.]
Put this gravy on anything
This gravy is rich in vegetables and blended in a Vitamix. So if you wanted to drink it with a straw you could call it a smoothie.
But nah.
It’s gravy. Great on cauliflower mash, a vegan loaf, or whatever else is on your Thanksgiving menu.
Just go make it, woulda ya? It’s really, really tasty.
And be sure to tag #lifeisNOYOKE. We love cheering you on.
Recipe
Grandma’s Gravy
Rich and complex, vegan, mushroom gravy
Ingredients:
- olive oil - 2 T (30 ml)
- white onion - 1 whole, chopped
- mushrooms - 1 large handful (about 1 cup or 240 ml)
- garlic - 5 cloves, chopped
- rosemary - a healthy amount (about 1/8 cup or 30 ml)
- red wine - a splash (1/4 cup or 60 ml)
- vegetable broth - 1 1/2 cups (360 ml)
- soy sauce - 1/4 cup (60 ml)
- tapioca flour - 2 T (30 ml)
- salt and pepper - to taste
Instructions:
PREP
Chop vegetables.
COOK
- Sautee onions for a few minutes.
- Add mushrooms.
- Cook for 10 minutes.
- Add garlic, rosemary.
- Cook for a couple minutes.
- Add everything else.
- Simmer for 10 more minutes stirring occasionally.
BLEND
- Add 75% of the gravy to your blender.
- Blend on high for 5 minutes.
- Add remaining 25% of unprocessed gravy.
Useful tips for Grandma’s Gravy
First, and most importantly, this recipe ought to be made to taste. Nothing needs to be measured perfectly, except for maybe the tapioca starch (also known as tapioca flour).
Most gravy recipes require you slow cook and reduce corn starch to make a paste. We’re skipping that step and letting the Vitamix do the thickening for us.
Keep 25% of the vegetable mixture unblended for a bit of texture.
Can’t wait to make this! I plan to use mushroom broth, which is my favorite when converting recipes that I previously made using beef. Fully plant based now. Love your content!
Why do you have to saute the onions and mushrooms? Can’t you use the soup function and add all the ingredients at once?
You could, but the soup setting doesn’t actually cook the onions. So it helps to sautee them a bit, making them less strong before blending
Shalva and Lenny,
This recipe is incredible, amazing, hilarious…. My husband was thrilled: that’s a bomb!!!
Oh yes, it is.
Thank you soooo much for this. Will go into my recipe folder for sure.
Much love,
Vero
BTW: I had no tapioca flour on hand so I used rice flour and that worked just fine.
The taste is great, but it didn’t thicken for me. The only substitution I made was using about 2 teaspoons of crushed rosemary instead of fresh. Otherwise, I followed the instructions exactly using a Vitamix 5200. Any ideas?
Strange. Shouldn’t have anything to do with the 5200. Perhaps we needed to reduce a bit longer? Next time a little warmer pan or longer sauteeing or both?
???Tapioca flour or Tapioca starch???? The recipe states ‘flour’ and in your ‘useful tips’ it is ‘starch’….or can they be interchanged?? Thank you.
Maybe that’s why mine didn’t thicken? I used Tapioca flour.
They should be interchangeable. Even this bag says “also know as tapioca starch”
This sounds SO good! I’m assuming I can omit the oil & water or broth sauté and get the same results. Yummy!
Should be able to, yeah. Let us know!
You really must make this gravy tonight, it’s that good. It has such a rich taste with a tang from the red wine & soy sauce, is “beefy” with mushrooms & onions, just the right savory flavor from the rosemary, and it thickens beautifully. You’ll want to serve it to your guests, especially the ones who won’t believe a meatless gravy can have so much flavor. A real winner. If anything it was even better night #2 with Christmas leftovers! (PS, I used a food processor rather than a blender, but either will give you great results I’m sure.)
You need a job reviewing Top Chef’s. So good! 🙏🏼