pan gravy
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4.5
- noun
- /pæn ˈɡreɪvi/
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salsa de sartén
- The chef demonstrated how to make a delicious pan gravy from the juices left in the roasting pan.
- make pan gravy
Examples
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None of them ate any dinner, even though it had been their favorite, pot roast with potatoes and pan gravy.
Fiction book (1994) -
With sauteed spinach and and pan gravy with a cilantro salad.
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After roasting the chicken, I poured the flavorful pan gravy over the mashed potatoes.
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To enhance the dish, prepare a rich pan gravy using the drippings from the cooked meat.
Synonyms
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7.0
A thin sauce made from juices that come out of meat or other cooked food and served with it
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Morphology
The meaning (a sauce made from the juices in a pan) follows directly from combining 'pan' (cooking vessel) with 'gravy' (a sauce made from pan juices); the compound simply specifies the source/type of gravy. This is a transparent, compositional noun–noun combination using concrete, frequent words and a cross‑linguistically common culinary logic, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Pan gravy comes from a simple cooking image: the juices and brown bits left in the pan after meat cooks are mixed with a little water to make thin gravy. So, pan gravy means 'a sauce made from the pan juices' that you pour over meat to add more flavor.