How to Make Yummy Get Ahead Christmas Gravy

Get Ahead Christmas Gravy.

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

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

Get Ahead Christmas Gravy step by step

1. Heat your oven to 180 degrees. Chop your veggies and add to a heavy bottomed casserole pan..
2. Take the onion add it to the pan too! Throw in the herbs and star anise..
3. Push in the chicken wings around the veggies, drizzle with olive oil and salt and pepper and place in the oven..
4. After half an hour give the wings a stir and put back in the oven for 40 minutes..
5. Lift out of the oven and place the casserole pan on a medium hob browning and mashing the meat and juices together..
6. Pour in the white wine or Madeira, let it bubble away..
7. Once it has simmered down add the plain flour coating all the veggies and meat..
8. Pour in the water so it’s well covering the mixture add 2 stock cubes..
9. Add the cranberry and let it bubble away for 30 or so minutes. Throw in the salt and pepper too!.
10. Take a large pan and sieve, ladle the mixture in to it push / mush the liquid and juices.
11. 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!.