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This mushroom gravy is easy enough to make tonight and tasty enough for Thanksgiving dinner. I’ve been making this mushroom gravy for a while. I learned the basis for this recipe from my friend Nataliya’s mom about 10 years ago.
The ingredients are simple and my son approves. It’s great over potatoes, white rice and buckwheat (my personal favorite).
Ingredients for Mushroom Gravy:
1 medium carrot, finely grated
1/4 cup onion, finely diced
3 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 lb (about 6) mushrooms, thinly sliced
4 Tbsp butter
3 1/2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
1 and 1/2 cups chicken broth or stock
1 and 1/2 cups milk (any kind)
Salt and 1/4 tsp pepper, or to taste
How to make mushroom gravy:
1. Heat 3 Tbsp of olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Sautee onion and carrot until soft and golden (5 minutes), stirring often.
2. Add mushrooms and sautee until soft (5 minutes), stirring often.
3. Increase to medium high heat and add 1 1/2 cups chicken broth and 1 1/2 cups milk, bring to a light boil.
4. Add salt and pepper to taste and stir until dissolved.
5. Melt 4 Tbsp butter and stir in 3 1/2 Tbsp flour.
6. Whisk the butter/flour mix into the gravy. Add more or less of the flour mixture depending on how thick you want the gravy. Remember it will still thicken as it cools. If it gets too thick add some more hot water or milk and return to a light boil again. Season to taste with salt and pepper if needed.
Mushroom Gravy Recipe

Ingredients
- 1 medium carrot, finely grated
- 1/4 cup onion, finely diced
- 3 Tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 lb about 6 mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 4 Tbsp unsalted butter
- 3 1/2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 and 1/2 cups chicken broth or stock
- 1 and 1/2 cups milk, any kind
- salt, to taste
- 1/4 tsp pepper
Instructions
- Heat 3 Tbsp of olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
- Sautee onion and carrot until soft and golden (5 minutes), stirring often.
- Add mushrooms and sautee until soft (5 minutes), stirring often.
- Increase to medium high heat and add 1 1/2 cups chicken broth and 1 1/2 cps milk, bring to a light boil. Salt and pepper to taste and stir till dissolved.
- Melt 4 Tbsp butter and stir in 3 1/2 tbsp flour.
- Whisk the butter/flour mix into the gravy. Add more or less of the flour mixture depending on how thick you want the gravy. Remember it will still thicken as it cools. If it gets too thick add some more hot water or milk and return to a light boil again.
I hope you fall in love with this easy and excellent mushroom gravy!
I was looking for a recipe for mushrooms that my father in law would make to serve Christmas eve
I also have some really yummy stuffed mushrooms on my site if you’re looking for more. Have a Merry Christmas! 🙂
Made this gravy this weekend, it tastes so good! Have you tried to make it in advance and keep it in the freezer for awhile?
I haven’t tried freezing it so I can’t say for sure how it will affect the consistency. I’m thinking it would work, but I can’t say for sure without trying it myself.
I made this tonight along with your chicken and mushroom Kotlety and buttered noodles. It was delicious!! Thank you for your fantastic recipes.
You’re making me so hungry!!
I was wondering how would it work with the liquid chicken broth?
It would work great! Use chicken broth instead of the Better than Bouillon paste and water. 🙂
Natasha, This is my all time favorite mushroom gravy but I haven’t made it in quite some time. Looks like you adjusted the recipe and now I dont remember how many spoons of better than bullion to add? I need the exact measurements from the old recipe or I’m afraid it will taste different. Please help if you remember.
Hi Oksana, as a general rule of thumb, 1 teaspoon of better than bouillon in 8 oz water replaces 1 cup of chicken broth, so 1 1/2 tsp BTB dissolved in 1 1/2 cups hot water. You can add more to add more flavor but add salt to taste since the better than bouillon product does contain salt.
Love this recipe!!! Everyone in my family does too!!
Liya, thank you for the great review, enjoy :).
i never made a podliva with sodium bouilion but i really liked it
We pretty much always use the low sodium version. I like to control how much salt goes into a recipe 🙂
I made this gravy for Easter to put on our mashed potatoes. This is seriously addicting gravy!! Another fantastic recipe, Natasha!! Thanks again for sharing.
I’m so happy you loved it! It’s also our favorite gravy! 🙂
Love this gravy!!! i added chicken, garlic and a pinch of montreal steak seasoning to mine. 🙂
I bet it was amazing with your add-ins!! Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
Where can I get such a pretty dish like yours for gravy?
I think it was either a score from Ross or Marshalls. Sorry that isn’t helpful since those kind of stores only have that once and then it’s something new. Maybe you’ll find an even prettier one! 🙂
love it!!!
Hi Natasha:) Your site is one of my go-to sites for food and dessert! Just made this podlivka and wanted to share my exuberant delight with you concerning the outcome! Yummmmmmmmy! So GOOD!! Thank you for all your hard work:) This is a ministry in and of itself!
What an excellent review!! Thanks and God bless you in your cooking adventures! 🙂
Natasha, have u ever seen or had gravy thats kinda looks like beef broth, its made with either chicken or mushroom or both, some cartots and dill… I had it at my cousins house over buckwheat I think and I ask her, she swears that she never made such thing and doesn’t know how, Ive only ate it once, so I believe her, her mom probably made it, (ive seen it over wedding potato) anyways its like a bullionchik recipe for the mashed potatoes or buckwheat that already have a creamy main dish and don’t require a heavy cream gravy….just wondering if u know of something like this and can you post it please?
I think you might be talking about a “zazharka”. I haven’t made one in a long long time but it would be a good post. I’ll add it to the list. If you discover a great recipe first, please share! 🙂
Thank you for your recipe. Did this gravy but without mushrooms and without carrots i did it with pork turned out great. Love your site everything I try turns out great, thank you for sharing recipes with us.
I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂 You’re welcome Lena! 🙂
Thank You for this recipe! Very delicious and easy to make!
You are welcome Yana, I’m craving some of it right now, maybe over rice or buckwheat or…I’m getting carried away :).
This is one of my favorite gravy’s!! My mom usually makes it when we have guests over so I loooong for the moment to have guests cuz it is sooo good:) my mom has an altered recipe but I will have to try yours, they look pretty similar though:)
Can this gravy be frozen? It’s a big portion just for the two of us
I haven’t tried to, but I don’t see why not.
Hey Natasha,
I wonder if there is a specific kind of mushroom you use?Mine looked very similiar to yours in the picture, but I believe the taste of these mushrooms I used ruined the taste, bummer..
I used button mushrooms; did u use fresh or canned?
Made it today and served with buckwheat. Sooo good…..
Thank you, thank you:-)
I’m glad you like the gravy, I make it all the time with the buckwheat too :).
I made this gravy twice so far and both times it turned out sooo delicious!! I just LOOOVE mushrooms (my whole family does actually) – they bring back lots of memories from back home! 🙂
Me too; one of my favorite foods 🙂
This is my favorite gravy now! Absolutely love it!!!! ( I added seasoned, sauteed chicken breast chunks to mine) You know, I was trying to lose weight after New Year’s; but with this blog, I’m in trouble. Everything looks so tempting and tantalizing, it’s hard to resist. I love the step by step instructions and visuals. I think I’ll introduce my nine-year-old daughter to this blog, she loves to help me cook. I’m pretty sure in the near future- I’ll just sit and relax, while my girls prepare dinner. (although, I absolutely love trying out the recipes myself!)
It’s a great idea to get your daughters started out young with cooking. They’ll be amazing cooks in no time; they probably already are! 🙂