A goose on a festive table is always a welcome guest, especially since it is not very difficult to prepare, so every goalkeeper in the home should know how to bake a goose with apples in her sleeve. Although, and many men are happy to cook this bird, trying to shine with their culinary abilities in front of the opposite sex.
Recipe of a goose baked in the oven with apples
This is perhaps the most favorite and most familiar recipes for cooking goose, but with small nuances that will allow this dish to "play" in a new way.
Ingredients:
- goose - 1 (3-3.5 kg);
- lemon - 1 piece;
- mandarin - ½ pcs .;
- salt;
- pepper;
- thyme;
- olive (vegetable) oil - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- apples - 4 pieces;
- brandy - 2 tbsp. spoons (optional).
Preparation
As always, start with the preparatory procedures: cut off excess fat around the abdomen, wash the bird well, especially pay attention to the inside of the carcass. After bathing, it is necessary to dry the goose well with towels and set it aside, let it dry further, until you take up the marinade. Combine the salt, pepper, thyme and other spicy herbs you love with olive oil, and then mix the mixture with the bird from the outside and inside. Now wrap the goose in film and leave to marinate in the refrigerator for the night or for 5-6 hours, if you cook on the same day. Before sending the goose into the oven, remove the cores from the apples, cut the apples into four pieces, and then cut each slice across in half. The mandarin slices should also be cut in half and put in pots to the apples. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon onto the fruit, and pour brandy. Now tightly, under the eyeballs, put fruit in the goose and sew up the abdomen. Squeeze the juice of the second half of the lemon and grate it well. Now the goose is already possible and needs to be wrapped in a sleeve and sent to a preheated oven to 200 degrees. After an hour, the temperature should be lowered to 180 and baked another 1.5 hours. If the goose is lightly browned, remove it, cut the sleeve and return it to the oven for 30-40 minutes, increasing the temperature to 200 degrees. Well, if he became ruddy and in his sleeve, then just wait another half hour. After removing the goose from the oven, it must be removed from the sleeve, put on a warmed dish and let stand for 15 minutes.
Baked goose with apples and prunes
Ingredients:
- goose - 1 (3.5-4 kg);
- lemon - ½ pcs .;
- orange - ½ pcs .;
- vegetable oil;
- mustard - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt;
- pepper;
- coriander;
- apples sour - 4 pcs .;
- prunes - 150 g.
Preparation
Preparing the goose is not fundamentally different from the previous recipe. All the same actions for the preparation of the carcass, with one exception: after drying it is necessary to make incisions on the goose's skin, but without cutting the skin to meat. For the marinade, combine the oil, salt, coriander (other favorite spices), pepper, mustard, ½ orange juice and ½ lemon juice and grate the bird outside. From the inside, carcass only with salt. Wrap the goose in film and send for marinating in the refrigerator for about five hours,