Onion gravy
Four portions of British onion gravy for roast meat or sausages; one serving is about 210 g.
4 servingsFinal yield 850 g
Ingredients
- 500 gOnions, raw
- 35 gButter, without salt
- 30 gWheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
- 500 gSoup, beef broth, less/reduced sodium, ready to serve
- 2 gSpices, thyme, dried
- 2 gSalt, table
Method
- Cut onion into thin half-moons. Melt butter in a saucepan and slowly brown onion over medium heat, stirring often, for 15 minutes.
- Stir in flour and thyme and cook for 2 minutes until the raw flour smell has gone.
- Gradually add beef stock and salt, whisking smooth. Simmer 18 minutes until the gravy coats the back of a spoon.
Recipe tradition
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 595.7 kcal
- Protein
- 14.8 g
- Fat
- 29.7 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 71.9 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 10.1 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 18.2 g
- Sodium
- 1,925.7 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 4.8 g
Per serving
- Energy
- 148.9 kcal
- Protein
- 3.7 g
- Fat
- 7.4 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 18 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 2.5 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 4.5 g
- Sodium
- 481.4 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 1.2 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 70.1 kcal
- Protein
- 1.7 g
- Fat
- 3.5 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 8.5 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 1.2 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 2.1 g
- Sodium
- 226.6 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.57 g
Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.
A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.
Calculation limitations
- Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
- The final yield is an editorial estimate.
- The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
- Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
- Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.
Allergens
Contains: Gluten, Milk
May contain: Soy, Celery
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Food data sources
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal