Anyone have a good recipe for Homemade Turkey Gravy?

I have never made gravy from scratch before and I want to this year. Please give me any good turkey gravy recipes using Cornstarch. I am making a 18.5 lb Turkey and would also like to use the drippings from it to make the gravy with. Thanks in advance for tips, recipes, and suggestions!!Anyone have a good recipe for Homemade Turkey Gravy?
The most important thing you need to know about making gravy (any gravy) with cornstarch is that you MUST make a slurry of cornstarch and COLD water before adding it to anything even remotely warm. Otherwise, your gravy will be clumpy and gross.





After you've cooked your turkey, either use the roasting pan on the stove top or pour the drippings into a sauce pan. If you have a fat separator, use that. I usually just pour the drippings into a sauce pan and stick it in my deep freeze for a few minutes..the fat solidifies and rises. :)





I simmer a sprig or two of rosemary in the rest of the drippings (heating them back up and adding the rosemary flavor). As it starts to bubble, I pull the rosemary, at a couple Tbsp's of butter, then taste. If it needs salt, salt it. Add black pepper. Then whisk in the cornstarch slurry and keep stirring until it will coat a spoon. Move quick, or you'll wind up with gravy that looks like mashed potatoes. :) (If you don't have enough drippings for all the gravy you need, add stock (veg, chicken, turkey, or water if you must) before the cornstarch.





(For the slurry, use 2 tablespoons cornstarch to 3 tablespoons of COLD water...times the approximate number of cups of liquid you're 'gravying')








Sounds more difficult than it is, promise. If you want the giblets in there, cook them elsewhere and chop them up and pop them in after it's thickened. Or diced hard-boiled eggs. Or nothing at all. :)Anyone have a good recipe for Homemade Turkey Gravy?
This is an easy and good one;





5 cups turkey stock with pan drippings


1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup


1 teaspoon poultry seasoning


1/2 teaspoon black pepper


1 teaspoon seasoned salt


1/4 teaspoon garlic powder


1 cup milk


1/3 cup all-purpose flour





Bring the turkey stock to a boil in a large saucepan. Stir in soup, and season with poultry seasoning, pepper, seasoned salt, and garlic powder. Reduce heat to low, and let simmer.


Warm the milk in the microwave, and whisk in the flour with a fork until there are no lumps. Return the gravy to a boil, and gradually stir in the milk mixture. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute, or until thickened. Be careful not to let the bottom scorch. Serves 28.


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3 and 1/2 cups of turkey stock from roasted turkey


1/2 cup of cooled turkey ( or chicken) stock


1/4 cup of cornstarch


2 tablespoons of pan drippings ( fat )


first mix the cornstarch and 1/2 cup of cold stock


mix until lumps disappear


next:


place pan drippings into sauce pan


mix in cornstarch, keep mixing while slowly adding the 3 and 1/2 cups of turkey stock ( from roasted turkey)


continue mixing just until it begins to thicken, take off heat and keep mixing. place in your favorite gravy serving bowl and watch them eat it up:)


hint: if you get the gravy too thick, add more stock to it while mixing just until it thins out.


Happy Thanksgiving!!!



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Happy Thanksgiving!!





Fat


Drippings


Milk


1 tsp. salt


1/2 c. flour


1/2 tsp. pepper





Pour drippings from roasting pan after cooking turkey into large liquid measure. Spoon 4 tablespoons fat from top of drippings and return them to roasting pan. Spoon any remaining fat from drippings. To the drippings, add enough milk to make 4 cups.





Blend flour into fat in roasting pan and stir and heat to brown. Gradually add liquid, stirring to blend. Stir and heat to make a smooth gravy. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Stir and cook 5-10 minutes. This gravy is really delicious!





CORNSTARCH!!
All you need to do is put about 1 cup of the drippings in a small mixing bowl, add about 2 tsp of corn starch and whisk it till all the lumps are gone. slowly pour the mixture into the rest of the boiling drippings while whisking briskly. Gravy will thicken quickly, if not then just let it simmer as you stir and it will boil down and thicken. If you don't have anough drippings use chiken stock. season to taste