Roast Christmas Goose Recipe

Roast Christmas goose recipe. Vegetable-stuffed goose baked in an oven. An excellent recipe for Christmas, very easy and delicious! You can use different stuffings for the roast goose:

Apple-Prune Stuffing

Ingredients: 1/2 cup (125 ml) finely chopped yellow onion, 6 tablespoons (90 ml) unsalted butter, 5-6 cups fresh breadcrumbs, 2 teaspoons (10 ml) salt, 2 cups (500 ml) peeled, cored, and chopped apples, 1 cup (250 ml) chestnuts, peeled and chopped, 1 cup (250 ml) coarsely chopped pitted fresh prunes, soaked in Madeira, 1 teaspoon (5 ml) chopped fresh thyme, 1/2 teaspoon (3 ml) ground nutmeg

Vegetable Stuffing

Ingredients: 3 pounds (1.44 kg) potatoes, peeled and cubed, 3 tablespoons (45 ml) unsalted butter, 8 leeks, trimmed and chopped, 6 garlic cloves, peeled, 2 tablespoons (30 ml) chopped fresh thyme, 2 tablespoons (30 ml) chopped fresh parsley, finely grated zest of 2 lemons

For the Port Gravy:

1 tablespoon (15 ml) vegetable oil, gooseneck, and gizzard, roughly chopped, 2 carrots, peeled and chopped, 1 yellow onion, peeled and chopped, 2/3 cup (160 ml) dry red wine, 2/3 cup (160 ml) port, 2 cups (500 ml) chicken stock

For the Apples:

1 cup (250 ml) cranberry or port sauce, 3 tablespoons (45 ml) fresh cranberries, 6 medium apples, 1¾ tablespoons (25 ml) unsalted butter, 2 teaspoons (10 ml) caster sugar

Instructions:
To make gravy for Roast Christmas Goose Recipe, in a large heavy-based pan, heat vegetable oil over high heat. Add gooseneck, gizzard, and carrots. Fry, stirring occasionally, until brown. Add chopped onion and cook for a further 5 minutes.

Pour in dry red wine and port. Bring the mixture into a boil, then boil for 5 minutes until reduced and syrupy. Pour in chicken stock, then stir well, reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes.

Turn off the heat and strain the gravy into a small saucepan.

To make Stuffed Apples and serve with Roast Christmas Goose Recipe, in a medium mixing bowl, combine cranberry sauce and fresh cranberries. Mix well. Cut a thin slice off the bottom of the apples, then stuff with cranberry mixture. Top with a dot of unsalted butter and scatter over the sugar.

Bake in a preheated oven (400º F) for 20-30 minutes. Serve with Roast Christmas Goose and prepared gravy.

Roast Christmas Goose Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 small goose, dressed
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 2 apples
• 1 celery leaf
• 1/2 onion
• 3 sprigs parsley
• Stuffing for Roast Goose:
• 1 cup (250 ml) dry red wine
• 1 cup consomme
• giblets from goose
• 1 carrot, cut up
• 1 onion, cut in half
• 6 peppercorns
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 garlic clove
• 3 sprigs parsley
• For Sauce:
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon dry red wine

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