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Gravy

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, gravy means: A sauce made from meat cooking juices, often with stock and a thickening ingredient.

In Turkish: et suyu sosu

How it is used

Common with roasts; unlike a light jus, many gravies have a noticeably thickened texture.

Example sentences

  1. The roast chicken came with a jug of gravy.

    The sauce is served as a separate accompaniment to the roast.

  2. She thickened the gravy before pouring it over the potatoes.

    Thickening helps the meat-based sauce coat the potatoes instead of running off immediately.

Common collocations

  • roast gravy
  • gravy jug
  • roastTo cook meat, poultry or vegetables with dry heat in an oven, usually at a fairly high temperature so the outside browns. As a noun, a roast is a joint of meat cooked this way.
  • stockA flavoured liquid made by simmering bones, vegetables and aromatics in water for a long time, used as the base for soups, sauces and braises.

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