Ingredients
- Roast potato
- Mars piper or roosters
- Duck fat
- Rosemary/garlic
Gravy from scratch
For a proper gravy, you will need a good stock. I use chicken wings to make my chicken stock and it’s full of flavour.
- 1kg Chicken wings or ask your local bitcher for chicken carcass
- Water
- Onion/ Garlic/Carrot/ celery roughly chopped
- White wine 500ml
- All stock from your roasting pan from your turkey.
- 100g Butter
Method
1. Peel and cut potatoes all the same size
2. Bring water to the boil and a good handful of salt.
3. Place potato in salted water for about 30 mins- Take out when they are a little hard.
4. You can put the knife through, and they won't break.
5. Drain out all water and let them cool
6. Get a fork and scratch all around- helps make them go crispy.
7. Heat some oil and duck fat in a tray at 190 degrees.
8. Place potatoes in the oven.
9. Turn every 15 mins. After 30 minutes, add garlic and rosemary.
10. Take out of the oven after about 40/45mins.
11. Strain off all the access oil and fat.
12. Sprinkle with sea salt.
Gravy from scratch
1. Roast your chicken wings in oven for 30-40 mins at 200 degrees Celsius
2. When they are very golden, take out.
3. Scrape all into a saucepan and cover with cold water.
4. Bring up to the boil, then turn down. Leave to simmer. Leave to simmer for 8-10 hours. Or leave in a slow cooker.
5. Drain and keep all the liquid and discard the bones.
6. Start your gravy by frying together onion, garlic, carrot and celery.
You want a caramelised dark colour.
7. To give your gravy extra colour, add wine and reduce down by 1/3
8. Add in chicken stock and your stock from your turkey and bring to the boil.
9. Strain off all veg after about 30 mins and have a taste.
10. Reduce more if it needs to be stronger, the more you reduce the more flavoursome it will get.
11. Once you're happy with the flavour, if it needs a little thickening, get a tablespoon of cornflour in a cup, add cold water and mix.
12. Add this to your gravy. Bring to the boil and add diced cold butter and whisk in.
This will give a lovely smooth taste and gloss.
