pan gravy
Skillet-rendered sauce
Pan gravy is a sauce made from the drippings left in a pan after cooking meat, typically combined with flour and liquid like broth or milk.
Unlike gravy made from scratch, pan gravy captures the fond—the caramelized bits stuck to the pan—giving it rich, concentrated flavor: She scraped up the brown bits to make pan gravy for the roast.
- drippingsFat released during cooking
- sauceLiquid food accompaniment
- cast ironBrittle iron-carbon alloy
- skilletShallow pan for frying
- Sunday roastWeekly British dinner tradition
roast · turkey · turkey dinner · flour · roux · broth · ladle · Thanksgiving · mashed potatoes · biscuits · chicken fried steak · lumpy · smooth · savory · giblets · stock · simmering · thickening
texture and style
pan gravycream gravy
Milk-based pan sauce
white gravy · béchamel · country gravy · velouté · hollandaise