Ingredients
8 cups vegetable stock (or 7 cups stock and 1 cup good, dry white wine)
8 dried shiitake mushrooms
1/2 cup butter (olive oil to make it vegan)
1 minced shallot, optional but super good!
1/2 cup PLUS 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon Marmite*
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
Put stock and mushrooms in medium pot and bring to a boil. Cover, turn off heat and let steep 30 minutes.
Pour stock in bowl and wipe out pot to reuse.
Add butter to pot and heat over medium heat. Add shallots and cook for one minute
Add flour and whisk nonstop for 5 minutes until lightly brown.
While continuing to whisk, pour in stock and add soy sauce, marmite and pepper
Bring back to boil then reduce heat and simmer until gravy in reduced by half.
Remove mushroom and serve or store for a few days.
Notes
This recipe is from Unamigirl, a great website!
*marmite can be ordered on Amazon or picked up at your local natural food store or specialty store. I’ve found it adds a lot of depth to this recipe and I recommend getting it if you can.