If your roast dinner meat is a gammon joint, what gravy do you have?

[nahthatsnotforme]

I have guests for dinner on Saturday who have requested a roast gammon roast dinner. This isn’t something I would usually make, we’re more of a beef or pork roast family. They’re not.

I am happy to cater for their preference but what do I make gravy out of? IME I’ll just end up with a salty stock (likely will do it in the slow cooker). Or do I just use something like Bisto Best.. and if so which one?’

HELP!!

I usually do it with dauphinoise potatoes and cauliflower cheese so some sauce from that, but also Cumberland sauce instead of gravy. You can cheat by buying redcurrant jelly with port in a jar from Waitrose which I warm gently in a pan with a bit of extra orange juice and zest mixed in. I like it!

They would like gravy which is what op has said they’ve asked for

I roast mine in orange juice and cranberry sauce and make a gravy from the juices. It’s delicious.

My mother in law does a bread and onion white sauce?

My mother in law does a bread and onion white sauce?

My mother in law does a bread and onion white sauce?

My mother in law does a bread and onion white sauce?

I always do a plum or damson sauce but I know some people do sweet and sour sauce with it or I’ve seen tinned pineapple with the juice that some people put on it too!

Cumberland sauce, Delia says serve it cold but we don't. It goes very well with ham and gammon.
https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/international/european/british/cumberland-sauce

Gravy wouldn’t work for me with gammon. I would have cheese sauce, parsley sauce, or onion chutney. Or pineapple.

No gravy with roast gammon imo. But I hate roast gammon so if I had to serve it to ppl, I’d also do a second roast which I would serve with gravy. So the gammon eaters could have chicken or beef gravy depending on what animal I’d chosen to cook.

I generally do cauliflower cheese when I cook a joint of gammon, or make a cheese sauce.

I would just get a couple of roast pork gravy mixes

Here in Ireland we do a “white sauce” so it’s just butter and flour to make roux and then add milk and cook up and just season with salt and pepper.

In the winter we have gammon with macaroni cheese, broccoli and carrots.

in the Summer we have it with it jersey royals, salad, and pickles.

This sounds amazing!

or Madeira sauce. Deglaze the pan with it.

Im with the posters above - gravy is not required but either do a cauliflower cheese or an onion gravy

If you aren't used to cooking a gammon, a few tips. Soak over night , some gammons can be wild salty

Add flavour to your boiling water, I like to throw in a chopped apple, a single tart anise , a pinch of peppercorns, a couple of carrots and an onion

Cook to just cooked - be that in a saucepan , slow cooker, pressure cooker. . Remove the rind, score the fat and coat with whatever glaze you want and bake - keep basting, as soon as the desired colour is reached - its dome. Then leave at least 30 mins before you attempt to carve - you need a good sharp knife because using more pressure, your joint will will break up as most "gammons" are force formed

I’d just use some beef gravy granules to make gravy but I always use way more granules to water than it suggests.

Yep, double sauce opportunity not to be missed here 👍

Parsley sauce or hp sauce

I think a white or parsley sauce would be the most conventional. Going ‘off-piste’ I might fancy apple sauce, I know it’s a pork accompaniment really. But then I don’t really think of gammon being a roast like pork, beef or chicken. Probably a me thing but there we go!

So many really helpful comments… thank you x

Cumberland sauce is great with baked hams. It's quite thin but full of flavour.
We usually have cauliflower cheese with ours, or a parsley sauce. I don't think gravy would work tbh

@nahthatsnotformeyou can make gravy just with the drippings from the gammon and a roux thinned with water or a bit of stock/veg water and maybe a splash of cream.

We have roast gammon usually as a second meat with eg chicken or beef, so usually the homemade gravy that goes with that.

On it’s own I’d have instant gravy, unless we had any homemade in the freezer.

Gammon with a white sauce or cauliflower cheese is very nice but it’s not a roast dinner. A gammon roast has to have gravy.