Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, get ahead christmas gravy. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. I made the Jamie Oliver get-ahead gravy to make my Christmas Day a little less stressful.

Get Ahead Christmas Gravy is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Get Ahead Christmas Gravy is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook get ahead christmas gravy using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Get Ahead Christmas Gravy:

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

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. Christmas Gravy - Get Ahead… you know it makes total sense. It's get ahead - and all done a dusted before the big day.

Steps to make Get Ahead Christmas Gravy:

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!

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