If buckwheat, rice or pasta have a poor appearance and taste, you can dilute them with a delicious meat gravy. It is prepared easily and quickly, and there can be a lot of ingredients that can be included in the gravy. Eating the most common cereals and pasta every day, you can surprisingly diversify your diet, because there are many recipes for meat gravy, moreover, you can always experiment with its composition.
Sauces for cereals and pasta
If you cooked, for example, chicken for hot, and you have an "ownerless" broth, do not rush to get rid of it. Chicken broth, and in principle, any other, can be a worthy base for gravy. Using a tablespoon of flour, 50 g of butter, and just half a liter of broth, you will make this versatile gravy. Melt the butter in a skillet. As soon as it smokes, add flour. As soon as the flour is browned, pour in the broth. Stir the substance constantly to prevent the flour from forming lumps. You can add salt, pepper and various herbs to the gravy - basil, thyme, coriander, it is to your taste.
Sour cream sauce will also help to diversify the taste of any side dish. Ingredients: 2 cups broth, 1 small onion, half a cup sour cream, a tablespoon of flour, and 2 tablespoons of butter. Melt butter in a frying pan, add flour to it, fry until flour turns golden brown. Pour the broth into the pan, stirring constantly, and simmer the gravy for about 10 minutes. At this time, cut and fry the onions. Small golden cubes should remain from the onion, add them to the hot sauce, pour in sour cream, stir well and remove from heat.
Sauces for vegetable, meat and fish dishes
Garlic sauce is a good addition to rabbit and poultry dishes. For cooking, you need to take 200 g of milk, a teaspoon of sugar, a slice of bacon (about 10 g), a small head of onion, a couple of cloves of garlic, a tablespoon of lemon juice. Melt the bacon in a frying pan, pour the flour into it and fry it, but not until browned. Pour the finely chopped garlic and onion into the flour and fry until golden brown. As soon as the onions and garlic are browned, pour hot milk into the pan and add sugar, stirring constantly. Simmer the gravy for about 20 minutes over low heat. Finally, add lemon juice and salt the resulting substance.
For vegetables, fish, or meat, a sweet and sour gravy may work. Take one onion, a glass of wine, half a glass of raisins, butter - three tablespoons, two tablespoons of flour, sugar and spices to taste. Fry the flour in melted butter, add a little water and bring it to a boil. Then add the diced onion and spices. While constantly stirring the gravy, make sure that its consistency is medium thick, otherwise add a little water. Add 2-3 teaspoons of burnt sugar to the gravy, boil the gravy. After - strain the mixture, pour wine into it, add a tablespoon of lemon juice. Finally, add the pre-cooked raisins to the gravy and bring it to a boil again.
