How to make Perfect Turkey Gravy! This gravy is so delicious, you’ll never want to make any other gravy recipe!
Growing up, my mom made the best, most Perfect Turkey Gravy in the world! At every family gathering – even when my mom wasn’t doing the hosting – she was still in charge of making the gravy because hers was so delicious!
So I like to joke with my husband Jack that I knew he was ‘the one’ when I discovered that his gravy was just as delicious as the perfect gravy my mother used to make!
This perfect turkey gravy is super flavorful and it’s the absolute best complement to our Perfect Roast Turkey and our Perfect Mashed Potatoes. I guarantee – with this recipe, you’ll become the star gravy-maker at your family gatherings too!
There are full step-by-step instructions in the recipe card below.
PrintPerfect Turkey Gravy
Note: As written, we’ve assumed that you’ll be making our Perfect Roast Turkey recipe and this gravy will go along with it. You’ll see references to the turkey recipe in the steps below.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 1 quart 1x
Ingredients
- Back and neck removed from your Perfect Roast Turkey
- 1 pound additional chicken or turkey parts (neck, wings, backs, etc.)
- 2 stalks celery with leaves, roughly cut
- 1 medium onion, peeled and roughly cut
- 2 medium carrots, cleaned but not peeled with tops trimmed off, roughly cut
- 1 bunch parsley with stems
- 5 black peppercorns
- 2 bay leaves
- 3 garlic cloves crushed
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3 quarts water
- 1 teaspoon browning and seasoning sauce, such as Kitchen Bouquet (found in the spice aisle at your supermarket or buy it here
- 1 stick butter
- 1/2 cup flour
Instructions
- While your turkey is roasting, in a medium to large stock pot, place the back, neck and chicken or turkey parts along with the celery, onion, carrots, parsley, peppercorns, bay leaves, garlic, salt and water and bring to a boil. Simmer with cover partially on letting steam escape. Simmer for the entire time the turkey is roasting, adding a little more water as needed.
- Once your turkey is done roasting and is resting, place the empty roasting pan over two burners on your stove and add the pot of cooked stock with all of the solids and the cooked vegetables and drippings saved from cooking the turkey. Cook and stir, loosening up any browned bits from the roasting pan.
- Place a colander over the stock pot you just emptied and with a spider, scoop out solids into colander. When the roasting pan is light enough to lift, pour all of the liquid into the colander and pot. Pull the colander out letting the liquid drain into the pot and try to squeeze out every last drop, crushing and pressing the cooked vegetables to give up their liquid. Then discard solids.
- Skim off the fat that floats to the top of the stock. What is left should be two quarts of turkey stock. Reserve one quart of stock for Step #18 in our Perfect Roast Turkey recipe and heat the other quart to a low boil in the same pot. Add the browning and seasoning sauce.
- While stock is getting hot, melt the stick of butter over medium heat in a medium pan and add flour. (If you like your gravy on the thicker side, add a few more tablespoons of flour to the butter) Stir with a wooden spoon and cook over medium low for about four minutes until the raw flour smell is gone. This is called a roux.
- Add all of this to the hot stock whipping briskly as you add. (Normally stock should be added to roux, not the other way around but as long as you whip while adding and they are both hot, it should not get lumpy. If it does, just strain before serving).
- Taste and adjust seasonings.
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What about the parsley?! Not listed in instructions…
Diana
This is my error. It goes in with the other ingredients to make the stock. I’ll go in now and fix. You may need to clear your cache to see it.
Sorry for the mistake,
Jack