Healthy Turkey Gravy
Healthy Turkey Gravy is rich, smooth, gluten free and low sodium gravy made completely from stock or with turkey pan drippings. This is the best healthy gravy for your Thanksgiving!
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 42kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup drippings or any low sodium broth
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch or 2 tbsp flour
- 1 tablespoon butter if not using drippings
- Seasonings, to taste if using broth only
Instructions
How to Make Gravy from Roasted Turkey Drippings
- Pour desired amount of turkey drippings in a large cup or saucepan and let them cool off (faster in the refrigerator) enough so the fat will solidify on top. Then remove it with a fork and discard.
- In a small bowl, whisk 1 tablespoon cornstarch with 2 tablespoon cold water for each cup of drippings in a separate small bowl.
- Bring drippings to a boil, then whisk in slurry (quickly stir before adding as it settles fast) and cook on medium-high heat for 1-2 minutes or until gravy has thickened.
- Because everyone’s drippings will have different seasonings, taste the gravy and adjust, if necessary.
How to Make Turkey Gravy Without Drippings (with Broth)
- Pour desired amount of broth to the bottom of the pan to combine with boneless turkey breast roast juices and scrape off the browned bits with a spoon to combine. Or use only stock of choice and omit any juices/drippings altogether.
- For each cup of “drippings” or broth, add 1 tbsp butter and bring to a boil.
- In a small bowl, make slurry by whisking 1 tbsp of cornstarch plus 2 tbsp cold water for each cup of drippings.
- Pour into pot with boiling broth, whisk to combine and simmer on medium-high heat for 1-2 minutes or until gravy has thickened.
- Taste and adjust salt and pepper, if necessary.
Notes
- Store: Refrigerate leftover gravy in an airtight glass container for up to 5 days. Reheat by simmering the mixture on low heat, stirring frequently. You might have to add a splash of water or broth to thin the gravy out.
- Use herbs stuck onto the mesh: If you roasted a turkey breast in a mesh pouch, roasted browned bits of herbs have stuck to it. Shake them off into a pan after removing mesh from the roast.
- Adjust to taste: Because everyone’s drippings will have different seasonings, taste the gravy and adjust, if necessary. Do a taste test for the salt if you used regular broth. You may not need to add salt at all if you used low sodium stock.
- Lighter in color: If you are not using turkey pan drippings or juices, your healthy gravy will have lighter color.
- Thickened gravy with flour: You can thicken gravy with all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour or most of any gluten-free flours. Just use double the amount of cornstarch listed in the recipe (ans skip the cornstarch).
- Strain it: If you do not like small pieces of herbs in your homemade gravy and prefer it silky smooth, strain through a fine mesh strainer.
Nutrition
Serving: 0.25cup | Calories: 42kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 8mg | Sodium: 43mg | Sugar: 1g