VEGAN GRAVY

2 Tablespoons Earth Balance Margarine
1 medium onion
2 Tablespoons unbleached flour
2 Tablespoons cornstarch or agar agar
1 1/2 cups vegetable broth (plus 1/2 cup more to cut the gravy thickness later)
1 teaspoon nutritional yeast
2 Tablespoons soy sauce (or tamari or nama shoyu)
Pepper to taste

Place margarine in saucepan and melt over medium heat, add onions to sauté, once translucent, add flour and stir. Let flour cook for about 5-6 minutes so that flour does not taste starchy. You will need to stir almost constantly to keep the flour from burning. You don’t want to turn the heat down too far however, because it will not cook properly.

Once the flour has cooked, add the cornstarch to the 1 1/2 cups of vegetable broth and stir into the mixture in the saucepan and stir to combine the flour and broth. This will very quickly become thick. Use about 1/3 of the remaining broth to cut the thickness, stir and cut with 1/3 more broth 2 more times. Let simmer for 2 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in nutritional yeast, tamari and pepper. Serve. Goes so well with mashed potatoes!