Goose: cooking recipes.

In many families the favorite traditional dish is the goose. Recipes are very diverse, combined with various fillings and spices. Consider the most popular of them.

The recipe for goose with apples

In order to cook with our own hands a popular dish - goose with apples, we need a goose about 3.5 - 4 kg of weight, as well as spices such as pepper, salt, and apples (hard and acidic). We proceed to the cooking process.

To begin with, it is necessary to wash the goose under a cold stream of water and dry with a towel. Then the skin in the thighs, breasts and abdomen should be pierced with a fork. As for the wings, it is better to cut them, otherwise they can become very unattractive when cooked, their appearance can spoil the whole aesthetic side of the dish. So, rub the goose with salt and pepper.

Then we begin to prepare the filling. To do this, apples should be cut into quarters, and be sure to remove the core with the seeds. Further we stuff our goose with sliced halves of an apple, not too tightly.

The abdomen, which served as the place through which the process of filling was going, must be sewn with a thread. Next, put the goose on the baking tray so that the belly was at the top, in the baking tray you need to pour boiling water approximately on the finger. Then put the goose in the oven for 15-20 minutes, 250 degrees. After that, the fire should be reduced to 180 degrees, but the frying process does not stop, it will last about one and a half to two hours. In order to form a crispy ruddy crust, it is recommended to water constantly goose fat, formed during frying. 20 minutes before the ready goose is surrounded by apples cut in half. Such apples will serve as an excellent side dish. In order to check the readiness of the dish, we advise you to poke it with a knife. If there is juice in the thickest layer, then our goose is definitely ready. If such a situation happens that the goose will burn from above, but it will still be damp inside, it is better to cover the goose with foil. In this way, you can cook such a favorite dish, like a goose. Recipes of cooking do not end here.

Next, we will describe how the goose is cooked. The recipe is as follows.

In order to cook stewed goose, take half a sliced goose, a couple of carrots, one apple (can be replaced with quince), we also need a pair of bulb heads, tomato paste (can ketchup), spices to taste.

So, let's start cooking the goose. We divide for a start the goose into small pieces, salt them and pepper. Next, the resulting pieces fry on goose fat from two sides, before the golden crust is formed. After that, these pieces are placed in a high vessel, the so-called goose bass. There we add grated apple or quince, carrot, chopped onion, all this is filled with tomato paste (or ketchup) and broth. Stew. After some time, put the spices: bay leaf, pepper and wait for the end of cooking. Before serving, it is recommended to water the resulting sauce. As a side dish, you can use potatoes or rice. Thus, it is possible to serve such a delicious dish as a goose. Recipes of cooking, as we see, are different.

Let's consider one more recipe.

Baked goose.

If you want to bake a delicious goose, you need a bird of small weight, about a half kilogram. Also butter - gram 100, chicken broth about two hundred milliliters, water about 150 milliliters. Also in the recipe includes one lemon and various spices: pepper and salt.

So, the baking process is the following. Goose carcass salt and pepper inside and out. We put the goose on a baking sheet, pour oil. Near the goose we put finely chopped onions and carrots. Then put the pan in the oven. When you notice that the vegetables are browned, pour broth and lemon juice diluted in water into the baking tray. During baking it is necessary to periodically water a goose with the juice formed during baking, in addition, it needs to be turned over so that it is fried evenly from all sides.

The goose is ready. Serve it is recommended with two side dishes on a serving dish. The resulting sauce is best filtered separately and served in a gravy boat. Goose can also be baked in a special culinary sleeve. By the way, quite juicy in this case it turns out a goose. Recipes in the sleeve are very diverse, with the addition of vegetables, fruits, etc.

To sum up, we learned to cook such a favorite dish as a goose. Recipes of cooking can include options such as: roast goose, goose with prunes, buckwheat and much more.