Thick Brown Mushroom Gravy

Even though Thanksgiving is over, here's a recipe for delicious gravy that is good all year round!

Story: I had Thanksgiving dinner with my meat eating family last night. I made a Tofurkey, mushroom gravy and garlic mashed potatoes, and my dad made a real turkey and some turkey gravy. Although more people indulged in the real turkey (as there was not much Tofurkey to go around) my special gravy went much faster than his. Here's why!


This recipe coordinates with a mashed potato dish containing two regular-sized russet potatoes. The more mashed potatoes and t[of]urkey you are serving it with, the more gravy you ought to make.

1/2 cup of nutritional yeast (flakes and powder both work fine)
1/2 unbleached flour
2 cups of vegetable broth
roughly 1 cup of water
small onion (yellow works best)
2 mushrooms (at least)
1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
2 pans
wooden spoon (you can also use a whisk, but that could damage your pan)

Before you start cooking, put the nutritional yeast and flour in a bowl or large measuring cup. Mash out any lumps with a fork. Also cut up your mushrooms, and thinly slices your onion.

Put one pan over medium heat. You should pour some the broth into the pan first, then some of the dry ingredients. Stir it together, making sure there are little or few lumps. The mixture will be thin at first, but will thicken once it gets hotter, and you may need to smash some lumps with your wooden spoon. Continue doing this until you run out of the broth, then switch to water. You may not need the entire cup of water, or you may need more; it all depends on how thick you want your gravy. Once you reach the thickness you want, turn off the heat.

In your other pan, heat up your vegetable oil. Saute the onions and mushrooms until the mushrooms are soft and it smells really good. Then pour this into your gravy and mix it until the oil has dissipated in your gravy.

Serve right away! This gravy is best fresh and can be difficult to re-heat as it thickens after cooling. If you want to re-heat it, however, you can do so in a pan by adding some water or vegetable broth.