Fairmont Royal York Pan Gravy Recipe

pan gravy recipe

Pan Gravy Recipe
(Makes 5-6 Cups)

Ingredients:

¼ lb butter
½ cup chopped white onion
½ cup flour
4-5 cups chicken or turkey rich stock or broth

Method:

Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat, then add onion. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes.

Sprinkle the flour on the onions, stirring constantly, and cook until flour is golden to brown. Adjust heat so mixture does not burn.

Gradually whisk in 4 cups stock until mixture thickens and is smooth.

If it is too thick, add liquid. Cool, cover and chill.

When ready to serve, reheat mixture over low heat, stirring. Scrape bottom of turkey pan and add drippings or giblets to gravy. Taste and adjust seasoning.

Serve your pan gravy with an expertly cooked turkey.

Executive Chef David Garcelon has some excellent tips for the home chef in this audio podcast recorded last year. You can also print off and follow along with his own personal turkey recipe.

Fairmont’s Resident Food Artist Creates Eight Amazing Butter Sculptures

fred-marquina-santa-butter-sculpture

Since opening its doors in 1929, The Fairmont Royal York has set the standard in hospitality.

Throughout the years, our Executive Chefs and their kitchen brigade of culinary experts have paid homage to the classic culinary traditions.

This festive season our resident food artist, Chef Fred Marquina takes the classic use of butter to a new level with his collection of eight sculptures featuring holiday traditions: holiday hockey, a ballroom Santa Clause, a perfect snowman, Rudolph, carollers, a rooftop Santa, a sleigh Ride and an elf in a box.

Chef Fred Marquina, raised in Paete, Laguna, Philippines, has been sculpting figures from lard and butter for over 20 years.

Fred first developed his expertise in wood and ice sculpting. Shortly after, knowing he wanted a more challenging way to express his art, he began using butter and lard as a medium. We are honoured to have such a talent among our 2011 kitchen brigade.

Butter sculpture is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Yak butter and dye are still used to create temporary symbols for the Tibetan New Year and other religious celebrations.

Sculptures are modeled by hands. Since butter melts easily, monk artists making butter sculptures need to work in cold conditions. They frequently dip their hands into cold water to make their fingers cold enough to model.

The butter sculptures in Ta’er Monastery enjoy the highest reputation in the Tibetan world. The monastery has a butter sculpture museum housing a collection of fine butter sculptures.

To learn how to create your own butter sculpture watch this “Howcast” video: