Gravy with cider

Cider gravy (from the Better Food Cafe)

Ingredients

4 onions                       2 heads of celery                 small nub of ginger
4 carrots                      1 bulb garlic                          100g plain flour
3 apples                        2 bay leaves                           pepper corns
thyme                           500ml cider                           splash white wine

Method

• Roughly chop all the veg and apples including the apple and ginger.
• Splash some olive oil into a heavy bottomed pot.
• Heat until smoking.
• Put in all the veg, the apples, bay leaves, pepper corns (crushed)
  and caramalise, but be careful not to burn.
• Sprinkle in the flour and stir into a paste, then pour in the cider and
  white wine.
• Keep stirring until it all comes together, then simmer for about half
  an hour.
• Pass the liquid through a fine sieve and return to the heat.
• Reduce until the gravy is the required thickness.