Crispy goose with fine sauce

AUTHOR
Avis Adkins
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3.8 14
COOK TIME
525 mins
TOTAL TIME
525 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 6
  • 7 Onions
  • 6 Apples (e.g. Elstar)
  • 5 twigs mugwort
  • 7-10 Tbsp salt, pepper
  • 7-10 Tbsp Sugar
  • 1 goose ready to cook (4,5-4,7 kg)
  • 1 collar Soup vegetables
  • 7-10 Tbsp wooden skewers
  • 7-10 Tbsp Kitchen yarn
  • 7-10 Tbsp ... and the sauce with currant jelly:
  • 1 glass (400 ml) Poultry stock
  • 1-2 TABLESPOONS Currant Jelly
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • 1 TEASPOON Peppercorns
  • 2 Cloves
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Cornstarch
  • 7-10 Tbsp salt, pepper
  • 7-10 Tbsp Disposable tea bags

Directions

  1. 1

    For the filling, peel 4 onions and dice them coarsely. Wash 4 apples, quarter them, remove seeds and dice them coarsely. Wash the mugwort and shake dry. Mix apples, onions, 3 sprigs of mugwort, approx. 1 tsp salt, some pepper and 1⁄2 tsp sugar.

  2. 2

    Wash the goose thoroughly inside and outside, dab dry. Season inside and outside with salt and pepper. Add the filling to the goose. Close the opening with a wooden skewer and wrap it with kitchen string. Tie the legs together.

  3. 3

    Tie wings together on the back as desired.

  4. 4

    Preheat oven (electric cooker: 100 °C/circulating air: 75 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Peel 3 onions, cut into slices. Clean or peel and wash the soup vegetables. Cut vegetables into small pieces. Wash 2 apples, quarter and core them.

  5. 5

    Mix everything with 2 sprigs of mugwort, salt and pepper and place in a fat pan or a large flat roasting pan. Place the goose on top. Fry in a hot oven for about 7 hours. Now and then prick the skin of the leg so that fat comes out.

  6. 6

    Mix 100 ml water with 1 tablespoon salt. Remove goose with vegetables and apples from the oven; use vegetables with the roast stock for the sauce. Place the goose on a rack, put it in the oven and slide a fat pan underneath.

  7. 7

    Switch up the oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Roast the goose for another 50-60 minutes, adding salt water every 15 minutes. Red cabbage and potato cookies are delicious with it.

  8. 8

    For the sauce: Put the cooked vegetables, apples and roast stock through a sieve into a pot. Let it cool down a little.

  9. 9

    Degrease the sauce with a ladle. Pour on the stock and 100 ml of water. Stir in jelly. Pour bay leaf, peppercorns and cloves into a disposable tea bag. Add to the sauce and simmer for about 10 minutes.

  10. 10

    Remove tea bags. Stir starch with approx. 4 tbsp. water until smooth. Stir into the boiling sauce and simmer for about 2 minutes while stirring. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
890 kcal
CARBS
32 g
FATS
55 g
PROTEINS
61 g