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Cooking a roast with some chopped potatoes in a crock pot for about 8 to 10 hours. Generally just add black pepper, salt, garlic powder to the meat, sear until brown, lay on a bed of potatoes, add some water, and cook. I figure I can siphon some of the water into a pan and try to make some gravy but I'm not sure how. Any tips?
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add some beef OXO for more flavor and then once it gets hot you just mix corn starch with water and then dump it in and there you have gravy
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generally you use the drippings from a roast pan to make the gravy. not sure how you'd do it when using a crock pot...
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id make a roux with butter and flour, let it cook and brown until it smells nutty, add the meat liquids and more water if needed, season and spice if needed, meat stock if it isnt flavorful enough from the meat liquid. Then add some cream in the end maybe.

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yusiko posted...

add some beef OXO for more flavor and then once it gets hot you just mix corn starch with water and then dump it in and there you have gravy

What's beef oxo?

BuckVanHammer posted...

generally you use the drippings from a roast pan to make the gravy. not sure how you'd do it when using a crock pot...

Yeah, no roast pan here, sadly. Just curious if I can use the juices from a crock pot. There is usually a LOT of them.

FF_Redux posted...

id make a roux with butter and flour, let it cook and brown until it smells nutty, add the meat liquids and more water if needed, season and spice if needed, meat stock if it isnt flavorful enough from the meat liquid. Then add some cream in the end maybe.

Thanks!
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If its too thick, add more liquid, if too thin, Id reccomend a slurry of corn starch (mix it in with some liquid) and thicken with that. Doing a wheat flour slurry will give it a raw flour taste. Corn starch barely gives flavor.

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