Get Ahead Christmas Gravy. I'm very excited to be able to bring you a brand new series of recipes in the run up to Christmas. Cooking on Christmas Day can be incredibly stressful. A delicious recipe for Christmas Day Gravy, made in advance using the leftover chicken carcass from a Sunday roast!

Strain the gravy through a fine sieve into a freezeable container, pushing through as much of the chicken and vegetables as you can. Keep calm and get your meal prep on. This batch of make-ahead Christmas recipes takes the chaos out of having company over. You can have Get Ahead Christmas Gravy using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Get Ahead Christmas Gravy

You need 1/2 bunch of celery chopped.
It's 5 of carrots chopped.
Prepare 1 tbsp of olive oil.
You need 1 of large onion chopped in wedges.
You need 4 of bay leaves.
You need Handful of parsley.
It's 5 springs of Rosemary.
You need 20 of approximately chicken wings.
Prepare 300 ml of Madeira or white wine.
It's 4 of star anise.
It's 1/2 cup of plain flour.
Prepare 1-1 1/2 litres of boiling water.
It's 2 of stock cubes (chicken).
It's 2 of heaped tbsp of cranberry sauce.
It's to taste of Salt and pepper.

Biscuits and gravy are usually prepared separately but served together. I created a way to bake them all at once in this scrumptious. Take gravy off the to-do list this Christmas Day with this time saving recipe. Flavoured with chicken wings, bacon, celery, carrots and onion, this gravy can be made up to two weeks in advance and frozen, ready to re-heat on the big day.

Get Ahead Christmas Gravy step by step

Heat your oven to 180 degrees. Chop your veggies and add to a heavy bottomed casserole pan..
Take the onion add it to the pan too! Throw in the herbs and star anise..
Push in the chicken wings around the veggies, drizzle with olive oil and salt and pepper and place in the oven..
After half an hour give the wings a stir and put back in the oven for 40 minutes..
Lift out of the oven and place the casserole pan on a medium hob browning and mashing the meat and juices together..
Pour in the white wine or Madeira, let it bubble away..
Once it has simmered down add the plain flour coating all the veggies and meat..
Pour in the water so it’s well covering the mixture add 2 stock cubes..
Add the cranberry and let it bubble away for 30 or so minutes. Throw in the salt and pepper too!.
Take a large pan and sieve, ladle the mixture in to it push / mush the liquid and juices.
Until there is no juice left in the mix. Bring the pan to the boil check the seasoning. Thats it done, ladle into containers and freeze!.

Christmas Gravy - Get Ahead… you know it makes total sense. It's get ahead - and all done a dusted before the big day. Bit of effort required but better now than on Christmas Day! Save time and stress on Christmas Day with our make-ahead dishes. These stuffings, sauces, sides and desserts can be prepared in advance, then Add some sparkle to this rich gravy in the form of a dash of Prosecco, to intensify the flavour.