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Condiments & seasonings

Gravy

Also called Universal brown sauce, UBS and gravies

Gravy is a condiment sauce that can be made with flour or vegetable stock. Cooks serve it with rice, noodles, or potatoes, and it is sold canned or as a powder.

Cooked most in
The Americas, Europe
Top country
United States
Gravy, prepared

Photo: Scott Veg · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use gravy

Made from

  • flour (sometimes)
  • vegetable stock (sometimes)

Preparing it

Instant gravy powder can be mixed with water.

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing gravy

Sold as
Canned, Powder

Around the world

Where gravy is cooked

5 dishes in the catalogue use gravy. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list gravy among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. 1908 · United Kingdom

    A British company developed the first instant gravy in 1908.

On the table

Dishes made with gravy

5 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Julienke

    Belgium

  • Hot beef commercial

    United States

  • Disco fries

    United States

  • Biscuits and gravy

    United States

  • Chicken-fried chicken

    United States

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include gravy.

Around the world

What gravy is called

Names in 45 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Gravy

  • French

    sauce au jus de viande · Gravy · sauces au jus de viande

  • Italian

    salsa gravy · salse gravy

  • Portuguese

    molho de carne

  • German

    Bratensauce · Bratensoße · Bratensosse

  • Dutch

    jus · Vleesjus

  • Turkish

    Gravy

  • Russian

    подливка

  • Polish

    jus · Uniwersalny brązowy sos · UBS

  • Arabic

    جريفي

  • Persian

    سس گریوی

  • Hebrew

    רוטב בשר

Show all 45 languages

  • Armenian

    կերակրալցուկ

  • Bangla

    ঝোল

  • Basque

    haragi saltsa

  • Belarusian

    падліўка

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    падліўка

  • Cantonese

    肉汁

  • Catalan

    gravy

  • Chinese

    肉汁 · 燒汁

  • Czech

    univerzální hnědá omáčka · UHO

  • Danish

    Brun sovs

  • Egyptian Arabic

    جريفى

  • Esperanto

    viandosuko

  • Hungarian

    szaft · pecsenyelé · hússzaft · húslé

  • Indonesian

    Kuah pekat

  • Irish

    súlach

  • Japanese

    グレイビーソース · グレーヴィー · グレイヴィソース · グレイビー

  • Javanese

    Duduh kenthel

  • Kikuyu

    Mũcũthi

  • Korean

    그레이비

  • Latin

    Gravatum · brodium gravatum · ius gravatum

  • Low Saxon

    stip

  • Malay

    Kuah

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    sjy

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    Sjy

  • Romanian

    jus · gravy

  • Slovak

    Univerzálna hnedá omáčka

  • Slovenian

    omaka za pečenko · gravy

  • Swedish

    sky

  • Thai

    เกรวี

  • Ukrainian

    підлива · поливка · підливка

  • Uzbek

    Qayla · Podlivka · Shirin podlivka

  • Vietnamese

    Nước thịt

  • Welsh

    grefi

  • Zeelandic

    Jus · Vlêêsjus · Vleesjus · Vleisjus

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q945934

Photos

Photo: Scott Veg · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons