Prime Rib gravy is a breeze to make with or without Prime Rib drippings! For Christmas dinner and Thanksgiving dinner, we always serve our 5-star rated Prime Rib Recipes, rubbed with delicious prime rib rub, alongside homemade brown gravy, prime rib au jus and horseradish sauce for prime rib! You can’t go wrong with any prime rib sauce.
In addition to our various prime rib recipes, you can serve this homemade beef gravy with: Sous Vide Chuck Roast, Instant Pot Roast Beef, Smoked Beef Tenderloin, Garlic Mashed Potatoes or even Sous Vide Ribeye.
Need prime rib side dish ideas or prime rib leftover ideas? Check out our list of What To Serve with Prime Rib and Recipes For Leftover Prime Rib.
Beef Gravy
Important note – prime rib gravy and prime rib au jus are two very different prime rib sauces. Beef gravy recipes, such as pot roast gravy, includes a thickening agent, like flour, while au jus does not.
We provide both recipes here at Foodie and Wine, as they’re two separate things. There are quite a few “au jus recipes” out there calling for flour. It’s actually gravy.
Prime Rib Roast Recipe
To make prime rib with gravy, first you must pick out the prime rib recipe you’re going to use. Here are our highly rated options:
Garlic Herb Crusted Prime Rib (pictured above)
Prime Rib Reverse Sear
Sous Vide Prime Rib
Smoked Prime Rib
Ingredients
To make roast beef gravy, here are the ingredients you need on hand: Beef drippings or unsalted butter, all-purpose flour, low sodium beef stock (we utilize Instant Pot Bone Broth), dijon mustard, fresh thyme, fresh rosemary and garlic cloves.
Many of these ingredients are used to make Horseradish Mashed Potatoes.
Homemade Brown Gravy
How to Make Beef Gravy With Drippings
Add 1/4 cup of beef drippings, from the roasting pan you used to cook the prime rib, to a hot skillet and whisk in the flour. Once the roux is a golden brown color, whisk in the beef broth and mustard. Throw in the thyme, rosemary and garlic and simmer until thick.
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If you have some prime rib drippings, but not enough to get 1/4 cup out of it, just make up the rest with unsalted butter.
The picture on the left shows what the gravy will look like after adding all the ingredients. The photo on the right shows AFTER the gravy thickens.
How To Make Gravy With Beef Broth
As mentioned, prime rib does not give off a ton of drippings. If you find yourself in that boat, have no fear. Just use 1/4 cup of unsalted butter instead. The butter, mixed with the beef broth, adds the critical fat required to bring the flavor!
What to Serve With Prime Rib With Gravy
Potato Recipes – Truffle Mashed Potatoes, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Sous Vide Mashed Potatoes or Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes
Beef Recipes – Roast Beef, Individual Beef Wellington
Turkey Recipes – Smoked Turkey or Smoked Turkey Wings
Add a scoop to your leftover Prime Rib Sandwich
Drizzle over your Sous Vide Pork Tenderloin
Tips
- For more “zing” add a tablespoon of sherry or red wine vinegar at the end. It’s not our cup of tea, but it might be yours!
- A teaspoon of Worcestershire would add an extra flavor element if you going with a basic prime rib roast recipe. Our prime rib rub is extremely flavorful, so we go with a basic prime rib gravy recipe as we don’t want to overwhelm the delicious beef flavor.
- Do not use full sodium beef broth unless you omitted salt from your prime rib rub. The resulting beef broth gravy will be way too salty.
- If you find your gravy is lump, just run it through a mesh stainer before adding it to the gravy boat.
- We have a long list of substitute for Beef broth, however none of them have been tested therefore we don’t advise using a replacement.
- Download our free Temperature Chart For Prime Rib Printable!
- Have leftover prime rib? Check out our How To Reheat Prime Rib post.
- Find Prime Rib For Sale.
More Gravy Recipes
Prime Rib Gravy
Ingredients
- ¼ cup Prime Rib Drippings or Unsalted Butter (*Note 1)
- ¼ cup All-purpose Flour
- 3 cups Low Sodium Beef Stock (*Note 2)
- 1 tbsp Dijon Mustard
- 2 sprigs Fresh Rosemary (*Note 3)
- 2 sprigs Fresh Thyme
- 2 Garlic Cloves, Smashed
Instructions
- While the prime rib is resting, pre-heat a large skillet over medium heat and add 1/4 cup of beef drippings from the roasting pan you used to make the prime rib. If you don't have beef drippings, use 1/4 cup of unsalted butter.
- If using butter, let it melt before proceeding. Vigorously whisk the flour into the beef drippings and cook for 2-3 minutes until golden in color.
- Slowly add the beef stock to the flour roux and vigorously whisk. Add the stock slowly as this is where the lumps can happen! Whisk in the mustard.
- Add the thyme, rosemary and smashed garlic cloves and bring to a gentle boil, before lowering the heat to a simmer.
- Cook and whisk constantly, until it begins to thicken, approx. 3-4 minutes.
- Transfer to a gravy boat and serve with the prime rib roast.