Grain-Free Gravy

Here is one of my favorite grain-free gravy recipes using a few basic ingredients, and no flour. Yes, no flour. And no grain-free flour or anything else resembling flour. Just pan drippings and a few other nutritious and delicious ingredients.

Pan drippings for grain-free gravy

For this recipe, the first ingredient is pan drippings from a roast, usually a turkey or chicken roast. To have pan drippings at a moment’s notice, you have a few options:

• You can make the gravy when you first take the roast out of the oven.
• Use butter or olive oil instead of pan drippings.
• Freeze roasted pan drippings from another roast and then take them out when you’re ready to make the gravy.
• If you have a left-over roasted chicken in the refrigerator, scoop out the gelatin that has settled to the bottom to use as pan drippings. You may need to supplement with butter for this technique but it adds great flavor to the gravy.

Grain-free gravy substitutions

This recipe is easy to modify, depending on your taste. If you prefer, you can use sautéed mushrooms instead of cauliflower. You can also replace the cauliflower with an additional cup of diced onion (about 2 small onions). And you can substitute frozen cauliflower florets for fresh cauliflower florets.

If you don’t have pan drippings, you can substitute butter or olive oil. You can use onions instead of shallots (about 1/2 cup diced yellow onions). Here’s an onion gravy recipe for a roast that also works well with poultry roasts.