PROTEINS
Mushroom Gravy
low carb vegan recipe
2 cups sliced mushrooms, white or brown or any kind, really
1 small onion, chopped
1½ tbsp minced garlic, hand-squeezed drained of excess water
2 tbsp herb flavored (Tuscan, Milanese or Provençal) extra virgin olive oil
1½ cups vegetable broth
1 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp dried rosemary
2 tbsp almond flour
Salt and pepper to taste
Fresh thyme or rosemary (optional garnish)
Heat the olive oil in a skillet on medium low heat. Add sliced mushrooms and sauté until they release their moisture with a sigh of relief. Add the dried spices, onions and minced garlic to the mushrooms. Sauté until the onions are translucent and the garlic is flagrantly fragrant and aromatic in the ambient atmosphere.
Gradually pour in the vegetable broth in small amounts, and now comes the tricky part. We want to make a sauce with low carb flour and avoid clumpiness or graininess.
Pour the flour into the broth very slowly and gradually by placing it into a tea strainer and shaking gently with one hand, while whisking everything together with the other hand. You want to flour to thicken the broth into a gravy, not turn it into liquid sawdust.
As soon as you add some broth and some flour, you’ll be like, “Holy sh*asterisk, this is actually like mushroom gravy!” Hold onto that feeling. As they say in Avengers movies, you’re in the end game now.
Continue adding broth, whisking and and shaking tea strainer flour slowly until you have the desired gravy consistency. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Let it all simmer for a while, as you visually examine the chemical reactions and consistency transformations. Continue to add the broth, but if it gets too watery, add some more flour. It’s now a battle of broth versus flour in the thickening end game.
Garnish with fresh thyme or rosemary if you’d like to, and pour over your protein, such as baked seitan.
By the way, placing fresh herbs in a tea strainer and running them under the faucet is also how I wash them, since they are much easier to separate from the stems when dry than wet.
