This recipe is Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Whole 30, Paleo, Slimming World (SP), and Weight Watchers friendly
Slimming Eats Recipe
Extra Easy – syn free
Green – syn free
Original – syn free
Syn Free Gravy
Serves 4
Author: Slimming Eats
Ingredients
- 1 large red onion, halved and sliced
- 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
- few sprigs of fresh thyme (or other herbs of your choice)
- 720ml (3 cups) of beef broth/stock
- splash of balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of tomato paste
- spray oil
- black pepper
- If you want a chicken or vegetarian gravy, use chicken or vegetable broth/stock
Method
- Spray a large saucepan over a medium high heat with some spray oil.
- Add the onion and garlic and cook until caramelised, you will need to keep adding a little of the stock to prevent the onions from sticking to the pan.
- Add the fresh herbs, remaining stock,tomato paste and a splash of balsamic vinegar, bring to the boil and reduce heat.
- Allow to simmer covered for approx 45 mins (this really brings out all the flavours and will reduce the stock down, but you can cook it for a shorter time period if you need to.)
- When it has cooked for the required time, add ½ of the mixture to a blender and blend until smooth. Return it back to the pan and mix well.
- This gravy is great with any meat or sausages or can even be used for the sauce for a shepherds pie or similar.
Ah! I’m glad you published this! Deserves the attention 🙂 I think if possible my OH would drink it by the gallon!
Made this gravy last night to go with liver&bacon and it was AWESOME!!!! will be making gallons of this in the future.
I love gravy! this is great. But ai live alone, so can i freeze portions of it?
yep you should be fine to freeze it, as it just like a soup really.
I thought stock cubes had 1 syn each so may not be ‘syn free’ but it does sound nice.
nope stock cubes are all free, it change a couple of years ago.
If you slice the onions rather than chop, then cook in exactly the same way, it’s a perfect French onion soup. I added two triangles of toasted wholemeal bread topped with Dairylea lite cream cheese. No one guessed it was a slimming recipe. Thanks so much for the recipes.
If you slice the onions rather than chop and cook exactly as above. Then serve with two triangles of wholemeal toast, spread with Dairylea extra lite, floating on the top it’s an excellent French onion soup. If on a green diet then use the real cheese.
Thankyou soooo much for this post, I am missing gravy so much on Slimming World!!! I will be making this by the cauldron load now!!
hope you enjoy it 🙂
yep I have done this before, it was kind of where I got the idea for a syn free gravy from, as I had made French Onion Soup and thought, hmmm this would be delicious with sausages.
It was really tasty, only thing is as I never use salt i find alot of things to be too salty. I will be trying it with a no salt stock cube. Finally gravy again! Thank you!
yes I always use the low sodium stock cubes or make my own stock. Some of the cubes can be quite salty
Im gonna give this a go tonight. If it works I can use it to make one of my favourite meals syn free 🙂
i have to thank you for this receipe…it is absolutley gorgeous 🙂 xx