Make Ahead Turkey Gravy

By jads8627

Really good and gets the job done ahead of time!

Ingredients

• 4 turkey wings (about 3 pounds)
• 2 medium onions peeled and quartered
• 1 cup water
• 8 cups chicken broth
• 3/4 cup chopped carrots
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
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Details

Adapted from foodiewife-kitchen.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Have ready a large roasting pan.
2. Arrange wings in a single layer in pan; scatter onions over top. Roast 1 ¼ hours until browned.
3. Put wings and onions in a 5 to 6-quart pot. Add water to roasting pan and stir to scrape up any brown bits on bottom. Add to pot. Add 6 cups broth (refrigerate remaining 2 cups). The carrot and thyme. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, 1 ½ hours.
4. Remove wings to cutting board. When cool, pull off skin and meat. Discard skin; save meat for another use.
5. Strain broth into a 3-quart saucepan, pressing vegetables to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard vegetables; skim fat off broth and discard (if time permits, refrigerate broth overnight to make fat-skimming easier).
6. Wisk flour into remaining 2 cups broth until blended and smooth.
7. Bring broth in pot to gentle boil. Wisk in broth-flour mixture and boil 3 to 4 minutes to thicken gravy and remove floury taste. Stir in butter and pepper.
8. Serve, or pour into containers and refrigerate up to 1 week or freeze up to 6 months