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This recipe’s great if you’re looking for a fairly fool-proof timesaver on turkey day. Or if you need an alternative to pan drippings, like me, since I let the guys deep fry our turkey!

Ingredients

  • 4 whole Turkey Wings (approximately 3lbs)
  • 2 whole Medium Onions, Quartered
  • 1 cup Water
  • 8 cups Chicken Broth, Divided
  • ¾ cups Carrot, Chopped
  • ½ teaspoons Dried Thyme
  • ¾ cups Flour
  • 2 Tablespoons Butter
  • ½ teaspoons Black Pepper, Fresh Ground

Preparation

Heat oven to 400 F.

Arrange wings in a single layer in a large roasting pan. Scatter onions over the top. Roast for 1 1/4 hours, until wings are browned.

Put wings and onions in a 5- to 6-qt pot. Add water to the roasting pan to deglaze it; add to pot. Add 6 cups of broth (refrigerate the remaining 2 cups), carrot, and thyme. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 1 1/2 hours.

Remove wings (you can let them cool, skin them, and save the meat if you want).

Strain broth into a 3-qt saucepan, pressing vegetables to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard veggies, skim off fat from the broth and discard (unless you’re into that sort of thing). This is easier done if you refrigerate it overnight at this point.

Whisk flour into remaining 2 cups broth, until blended and smooth.

Bring skimmed broth to a gentle boil and whisk in the flour mixture; boil for 3 to 4 minutes to thicken the gravy and remove the flour-y taste. Stir in butter and pepper.

You can serve this immediately, or refrigerate it for up to 1 week (or you can even freeze it for up to 6 months!).

If you ARE roasting a bird, you can always add those drippings to the gravy on turkey day, too. Since we fry ours, that’s not really an option for me!

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foodieq on 1.14.2010

Sorry for the crazy late answer sammyiam! My grocery stores (just “normal” nothing “fancy”) do carry turkey wings. If they’re not out, I just ask someone in the meat department and they’ll package some up for me. Hope that helps a bit!

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sjohnson on 11.25.2009

I just made this and tasted-tested it. It was wonderful! I can’t wait to serve to my family tomorrow!

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sammyiam on 11.24.2009

Where do you get turkey wings? I mean, do they sell them normally at the grocery store?

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sjohnson on 7.26.2010

I made this last year for Thanksgiving. I made it the day before, as we were deep frying our turkey. It was so good, I kept stealing spoonfuls of it! Thanks for posting this!

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