British

Onion Gravy

Name: Onion Gravy
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 onion; 2 tbsp butter; 2 tbsp all purpose flour; 1.5 cups beef stock; 1 tsp worcestershire sauce; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/8 tsp black pepper

Margaret @margaret_yorkshire

Onion Gravy is British home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment and the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 onion
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp all purpose flour
1.5 cups beef stock
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Thinly slice the onions and cook in the butter over medium-low heat until deeply soft and golden, about 15 minutes.
Stir in the flour and cook for a minute.
Gradually whisk in the beef stock and Worcestershire sauce and simmer until thickened and glossy, about 6 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper and serve hot in a jug alongside the meal.

Watch how to cook Onion Gravy

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A British dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Onion Gravy, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bacon and Egg Pie
  
  55 min
The cooked vegetable
- Cauliflower Cheese
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- British Mashed Potatoes
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Onion Gravy carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Onion Gravy
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Brown Sauce
Gluten	Yes	Apple Sauce
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 90 kcal
Protein: 1 g
Carbs: 8 g
Fat: 6 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 330 mg
Saturated fat: 4 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Onion Gravy takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.