For me, one of the defining features of gravy is that it’s made from a roux, but I think that’s just because my family always made white gravy as opposed to brown gravy (which is a base thickened with a starch slurry, as opposed to a full on roux).
I’ll have to give this a try! It looks delicious!
If anyone wants a good white gravy recipe, I usually make the one included here: https://www.rabbitandwolves.com/vegan-crispy-black-pepper-cauliflower-steaks/
I have also seen Indian curry bases that are thickened through reduction referred to as gravy, so I think it can/should be a very open term.
This cauliflower recipe is fantastic, thank you for sharing. I love cauliflower steaks but the head are super expensive here so I appreciate anything that turns them into a full meal.
Yeah, same. I tend to think of curry and gravy as two separate things, where gravy is a sauce for something else, but curry is more of the main affair. But some people definitely use gravy as a synonym for the saucy portion of the curry.
As for the recipe, I often bring that one out at thanksgiving or Christmas, and it’s always well received. It’s usually either that or a stuffed seitan roast. It’s definitely one of my go-tos!
So, I’ve spent years learning Hindi and Urdu, and as part of that due to long conversations with friends and colleagues in India; I’ve also needed to learn the Hinglish dialect. UK and American English speakers often see these differences as “wrong,” but Hinglish is a fully coherent and functional variety of English. In fact, as I’m sure you probably know, there’s no single correct version of English. Hinglish might even be the most widely spoken variety of English in the world.
With the word gravy here, you’ve identified a dialectal difference between Hinglish and American/UK English. They don’t use the word curry unless referring to the leaves it is always called gravy. Besides this there are many words like this that have shifted between dialects. For instance, gram in India refers to what I would call a pulse, ladyfinger means okra (while in American English, it’s a type of cookie), and brinjal is used for eggplant in Hinglish. Interestingly, brinjal isn’t a native Hindi word but a Portuguese loanword—it’s only used in Hinglish. When speaking Hindi or Urdu, I would say बैंगन (baingan).
