A lot of gravy very tasty but without the Spanish sage (9)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A lot of gravy, very tasty, but without the Spanish sage JU <s> (=gravy; “a lot of” means last letter is dropped) + D <el> ICIOUS (=very tasty; “without the Spanish (=el, i.e. a Spanish word for the )” means letters “el” are dropped)