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This mushroom gravy is simple, quick and flavorful. It’s also super creamy without any cream in the recipe. That’s right – it’s a skinnier gravy, but you’d never know it! It takes less than 10 minutes to make and you probably already have all of the ingredients in your kitchen.
You’ll never want to go back to store-bought instant gravies with ingredients most of us can’t pronounce! This is our go-to gravy recipe when we cook buckwheat and want our son to eat it. He loves his gravy and mushrooms. It’s also really good over mashed pow-taters. We think you’ll love it!
Ingredients for Mushroom Gravy:
1/2 lb fresh button mushrooms (white or brown), sliced
1 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp unsalted butter
2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
1/2 cup chicken stock/broth (veggie or beef stock work also)
1 cup milk (use whatever kind you have)
Salt and pepper to taste
How to Make Mushroom Gravy:
1. Rinse mushrooms (yes, I rinse my mushrooms), then pat them dry with paper towels and slice. Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add 1 Tbsp olive oil. When oil is hot, add mushrooms and sautee until golden and soft. Remove mushrooms from pan.
2. Add 2 Tbsp butter to pan along with 2 Tbsp flour. Whisk until your flour roux is a light golden brown (1-2 min).
3. Whisk in 1/2 cup stock then 1 cup milk and stir until hot and thickened.
4. Add the mushrooms back to the pan, season with salt and pepper to taste and bring to a simmer. When gravy is at desired consistency, remove from heat (keep in mind it will still thicken slightly as it cools).
Enjoy it over buckwheat or these perfect mashed potatoes! Mmmm. Comfort food :).
Easy Mushroom Gravy Recipe

Ingredients
- 1/2 lb fresh button mushrooms, white or brown, sliced
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 Tbsp unsalted butter
- 2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup chicken stock/broth, veggie or beef stock work also
- 1 cup milk, use whatever kind you have
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Rinse mushrooms (yes, I rinse my mushrooms), then pat them dry with paper towels and slice. Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add 1 Tbsp olive oil. When oil is hot, add mushrooms and sautee until golden and soft. Remove mushrooms from pan.
- Add 2 Tbsp butter to pan along with 2 Tbsp flour. Whisk until your flour roux is a light golden brown (1-2 min).
- Whisk in 1/2 cup stock then 1 cup milk and stir until hot and thickened.
- Add the mushrooms back to the pan, season with salt and pepper to taste and bring to a simmer. When gravy is at desired consistency, remove from heat (keep in mind it will still thicken slightly as it cools).
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Very nice recipe, but before frying up the mushrooms, I first fried up some garlic and onion.
Thank you so much for sharing that with me. 🙂 I’m so happy you liked it!
Yum! I may have had more of the gravy on my plate than actual food lol. I did add some garlic to this which tasted really nice.
Tiffany, thank you for such a nice review, I’m glad you enjoyed it 😀.
Made this tonight, stirred in some frozen turkey meatballs I had on hand, and served over pasta. It was great! The only addition I made was a bit of worcestershire sauce.
Laura, thank you for the nice review and nice job improvising 😁.
Tried this recipe on chicken…so awesome and easy! My sister said it was the best mushroom gravy she’s had in a long time!
Sarah, thank you for writing in such a nice review, I’m happy that you enjoyed it 😁.
Made it tonight for the family with some left over mushrooms I had in the fridge. Absolutely delicious.
Next time going to substitute the mushrooms with some pepper corns and make a nice pepper corn sauce.
Jason, thank you for the great review and I like the idea of pepper corns. Let me know how it turns out :).
very nice, light and creamy 🙂
Thank you Thea! 🙂
Hi Natasha, I made this gravy for dinner tonight and it’s just perfect, flavorful and so easy! Thank you for the recipe 🙂
Thank you Valeria for the great review and you are welcome :). I also bookmarked you blog.
I was out of mushroom soup but had sliced mushrooms in the fridge. If you’re like me and don’t usually have chicken stock on hand this might help: I used ramen noodle chicken flavor packet instead. I measured out the same amount of water needed for the chicken stock and just poured the flavor packet in the water and stirred. Ghetto I know, but it came out good! Can’t say how the regular recipe tastes but the substitute turned out fine.
Haha not many people use the word ghetto in Idaho but I’m from Seattle so it made me chuckle
Natasha I love your website! I made this grave to go with mashed potatoes I had made n it turned out awesome! Next Saturday I’m going to try one of your shrimp recipes. I’ll take a picture n post it on fb page.
I’m so happy you are enjoying the recipes! Let me know which shrimp recipe you end up trying! I’d love to see it! 😉
I found your recipe on Pinterest and love it! You’re right, it is easy and flavorful but also foolproof. I was talking while making it and failed to remove the mushrooms from the pan prior to adding the butter and flour, and it still turned out delicious. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Debbie! I’m so happy you enjoyed the recipe. It seems you may have stumbled on a shortcut 😉
Thank you so much for your website and all the recipes. Everything what I dried turned out great and was delish.
I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you so much for sharing that with me 🙂
We loved the gravy!!!
Thank you Inna, my husband actually made it today to go along with quinoa for lunch. It is truly easy to make and delicious :).
So tasty! I just finished eating it. As always, my husband also approves. =) Thank you for the quick recipe!
I’m so glad to hear you both enjoyed it! 🙂
Looks like dinner tomorrow as I have some leftover chicken I’m going to throw into this and serve it over biscuits.
Oh my goodness that sounds really really good!
Mushroom gravy is a favorite here…I add onions, parsley at end for some green and heavy whip cream instead of milk to mine. Yum! will try yours.
Adding a little green definitely glams up the gravy :). I hope you love this version! I don’t think you’ll miss the heavy cream – the flour does the thickening job nicely. P.S. I’m still thinking about your little guy – so happy for your good news!
So which gravy tastes better,this one or the other one u have posted??? Cuz ive the other one so many times n love it!!! So which one tastes better?
I’d say the other one has more depth of flavor because it includes carrots and onions, but this one is also really tasty and we make this even more often only because it’s so quick to make. I make the other one when I’m cooking for company or want more gravy 🙂
Looks so good and so easy to make. I do mine with onions.
I bet they add alot of nice flavor!
I have tried this before at parties and gatherings and liked it a lot, but never knew how to make it. I really like how fast and simple it is to make it.
It’s almost too easy and oh so flavorful! I hope you love it!
Looks so yummy Natash. You can never go wrong with mushrooms in a gravy for ultimate comfort dish (over mashed taters that is 🙂
The gravy totally makes me crave mashed potatoes! 🙂 Thanks Katya 🙂
I love this idea. I may have to add mushrooms to our gravy on Thanksgiving 🙂
It’s such a nice flavor boost! Thanks girl 🙂