Fat-free gravy
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients:
- 1 c Broth & defatted drippings 1 pn Salt
- 2 ts All purpose flour 1 pn Freshly ground pepper
- 1 ts Cornstarch 1 pn Basil (beef) or sage (chick)
- 1 ts Ketchup
Instructions:
A waist-watcher gravy - quite thin. Serve over meat or potatoes. Cook up bones as for soup strain liquid. Refrigerate overnight or until white fat on top can be removed with a spoon. Refrigerate meat drippings from the pan and skim off the fat. Combine broth flour and cornstarch in a screw-top jar cover and shake until well combined or use a blender for a larger batch. Pour into saucepan stir in ketchup salt pepper and basil for beef (or sage for turkey or other herb of your choice). Stir-cook over medium heat until gravy thickens. (Mine didn't thicken but I had some lumps of flour or cornstarch.) Makes about 1 cup. 1/4 serving 1++ extra 3 g carbohydrate 1 g protein 16 calories Source: Choice Cooking Canadian Diabetes Association 1986 Shared and tested with turkey drippings Oct 93.
