gravy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪvi/
gravy (uncountable)
- (uncountable) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
- (UK, Canada) A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
- A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.
- (Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce
- There are few foods more Southern than biscuits and gravy.
- (UK, Canada) A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
- (countable) A type of gravy.
- (uncountable, Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.
- (uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce.
- 1879, The Sunday at Home, Volume 26, page 342:
- With this the hostess poured two or three spoonfuls of the gravy of the curry on to the rice opposite to each person.
- 1906, Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, "Pa Senik and his Son-in-Law Awang", Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 59-60:
- Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up.
- 1992, Khammān Khonkhai, The Teachers of Mad Dog Swamp
- This is strained with a piece of cloth or a strainer and the green liquid forms the gravy of the curry.
- 2007, Geok Boi Lee, Classic Asian Noodles, Marshall Cavendish ISBN 9789812613356, page 158
- Return flaked fish to curry gravy and bring to the boil.
- 1879, The Sunday at Home, Volume 26, page 342:
- (uncountable, informal) Unearned gain.
- (uncountable, informal) Extra benefit.
- The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.
- French: jus de viande, sauce au jus, sauce de viande
- German: Soße
- Italian: sugo, salsa
- Portuguese: molho
- Russian: подли́вка
- Spanish: salsa
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