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Chips and gravy.

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Pippyls67 · 03/04/2025 07:34

Had this for the first time ever yesterday. Well! My oh my! What a revelation! Beats ketchup and Eve mayo any day of the week. Try it and see if I’m being unreasonable 😋. Also - any more fabulous foody wonders out there I might be missing? What do you knock up when you just want a once in a blue moon self indulgent treat?

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Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 18:20

mathanxiety · 03/04/2025 17:49

Chips with blue cheese dressing.

Ooo maybe.

Tarkan · 03/04/2025 19:04

When we moved to our town in the early 90s there was a chippy that did the most amazing gravy, with the occasional little bit of the most tender stewing steak in it. That on chips was absolutely amazing. I was really sad when it was taken over and they didn’t do the gravy the same way.

My usual go to now is chips, cheese and curry sauce together. My local chippy isn’t the greatest overall (I’ve stopped buying anything in batter there as it always seems chewy) but the cheese they use is amazing, goes really nice and stringy but not as much as you get with a mozzarella, just the perfect amount of cheesy stretchiness.

I also like making a Two Chubby Cubs recipe which is a sort of take on poutine but with gnocchi, mozzarella and gravy (KFC style gravy is definitely the best on this IMO).

NautilusLionfish · 03/04/2025 19:12

Breadcat24 · 03/04/2025 17:13

@NautilusLionfish
First thing to say is if you make gravy with a roast then if there is any left over -even a small amount freeze it.
Gravy recipe from a northerner:
Roast joint of pork/lamb/beef meat or a whole chicken (or a tray full of chicken wings on the bone - see Jamie Oliver make ahead gravy).When joint is roasted put aside to rest (if you have had roast potatoes in the tray with the meat move to another dish and put back in oven).
put roasting tray of juices and bits on a low light on a ring, add a good slosh of wine- red for dark meat white for chicken and scrape at the roasting tin with a wooden spoon boiling the liquid until all stuff stuck to roasting tin is dissolved/ suspended. Pour into pan through sieve.
Add 500ml water and stock cube. Simmer and reduce until taste is acceptable. thicken with a slurry of cornflour and water.
If you want it glossy add a knob of butter. If you want it to taste differently - eg for venison- you could add a spoon of redcurrant jelly or mint sauce for lamb.

Thank you @Breadcat24 I always saute onions first, add flour cook it out then stock and juices of rested roast. Will try this too. No onions would save me time

Zanatdy · 03/04/2025 19:16

I prefer chips and curry, but chips and gravy is good!

BeaAndBen · 03/04/2025 19:30

Not horrible meat gravy, lovely onion gravy - mushroom gravy at a push, but onion gravy is the best on chips.

Chip shop chips aren't supposed to be crispy - they are supposed to be doused in vinegar and massively over-salted, then wrapped up to carry home.

But you can't resist so you tear a hole in the paper and scarf those thick, lightly-steamed-in-vinegar chips on the walk before unwrapping properly once you're indoors, and then tipping the gravy all over them.

mmmmmmmmmm

MyHusbandisRonWeasley · 03/04/2025 19:30

Chips, scraps, chip spice, gravy and then salt all in that order. Nothing can ever beat that!

JasperTheDoll · 03/04/2025 19:37

PrancerandDancer · 03/04/2025 07:45

As another northerner living in Essex this is very valuable information 🤣

I used to live in Cornwall and the outrage when I asked for gravy down there.

These southerners don't do proper gravy anyway. It hits better when we are back north. Particularly when pairred with a steak pudding 😋

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A babbies yed 😂

Mistyglade · 03/04/2025 19:54

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 18:19

It's the chicken residue though it's kfc it isn't exactly an organic chicken but the gravy making is the same.

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Same process but a little disparity in compound!

Nutmuncher · 03/04/2025 19:59

Chips gravy and a Hollands steak pudding. divine. Chinese chippy gravy is best imo, it’s the msg 🤤

Beyondbeliefsometimes · 03/04/2025 20:00

Chips curry and cheese

ooherrmissus14 · 03/04/2025 20:04

I’m a northerner living in Bristol and, although they do gravy here, it is no where near as nice as what they serve where I grew up- it’s way to thin here!! So, although I highly recommend trying it, please make sure you get it from a proper northern chippy where you basically get it in slices it’s so thick.

Regarding cheese with it- it’s a firm no from me….

MadisonAvenue · 03/04/2025 21:31

Love chips and gravy, but chips and curry sauce just edge it.

Used to work with someone who went to the chippy and brought back chips and gravy for her lunch every day.

Ecrire · 03/04/2025 21:37

angelopal · 03/04/2025 07:38

You need to add cheese to the chips and gravy.

That’s Canadian poutine!! Absolutely heavenly

Lucyccfc68 · 03/04/2025 22:06

Another Northerner here. I lived in the Valleys in South Wales as a teenager and was gutted that I couldn’t get chips and gravy in any of the chippys (or ‘fish shops’ as they are known). No steak puddings either or rag puddings (which are even nicer).

Nothing better than pudding, chops and gravy with a few scraps.

Nat6999 · 04/04/2025 04:22

Chips, scraps & curry sauce for me, ds would have gravy if he had a chip shop pie & chips.

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