Before the holidays, many housewives carethe question of how to please their relatives and friends with something especially tasty and unusual. For example, how to cook a goose with apples, appetizing, fragrant and refined, such that after each piece of it every family member wants to get an additive. The matter is not too complicated, although it requires certain skills and experience.
For many women who love to pamper themselves andtheir loved ones with something tasty, cooking a goose is not a problem at all. They know for sure that this bird, in fact, prepares itself, if it is properly prepared and stuffed with a favorite filling. The main difficulty lies in the fact that the dish must be roasted in the oven for a very long time (sometimes up to 3 hours, depending on the size of the bird), so the cook must have a considerable reserve of patience so as not to interrupt the baking process too early.
Before you cook the goose in the oven,should not only be patient, but also choose the right ingredients, tools and utensils, best of all - the roaster. To create this tasty and aromatic dish you will need: a goose (medium-sized carcass) and apples (1500 gr.). It can also be useful butter (50 gr.), Salt, pepper or other seasonings, as well as herbs - basil, dill, parsley and mint. The goose carcass must be carefully gutted, rid of entrails and feathers, rinsed several times in cold water. Next, the goose is rubbed with a mixture of seasonings and spices (exclusively to the taste and preferences of the chef). Even before cooking the goose in the oven for baking, you should do apples for stuffing. They can be washed and cleaned in advance, then cut into several pieces and put into a carcass goose, which is then carefully sewn with thread.
The goose prepared in this way is smeared.butter and transferred to the roaster. After that, it remains only to pour a little water into the dish (100-150 gr.) And place it in the oven. In the process of baking, it is necessary to periodically look into the roaster and water the carcass on top of the draining grease. The bird should be prepared as long as necessary depending on its size, but on average about one and a half to two hours, after which the dish should be removed, remove all strings and shift the bird to a wide plate, decorating it with washed and chopped greens .
If it seems that this process is too complicated,and you would like to know how to cook the goose in the oven a little faster and effortlessly, you should pay attention to the following recipe. It will require directly the bird carcass, a set of spices and a sleeve for baking. Thoroughly prepared birds should be cleaned, rid of feathers, rinsed, rubbed with spices and put in a sleeve for two hours. When the bird is thoroughly soaked, it will be necessary to make several punctures with a fork in its skin, then pack it again in a sleeve and send it to the oven. After about two or two and a half hours, the finished dish can be extracted, cut and served to the festive table, seasoning with greens and favorite sauces.
At all times, women knew perfectly well howbake the goose and beautifully serve it to the table. A rosy bird stuffed with apples served as a symbol of the high level of skill of the housewife and great wealth in her house. Many years ago, a goose with apples could appear equally on the royal table and at dinners with the common people. Unfortunately, the modern world has deprived us of many wonderful recipes and skills, and the chicken on our festive tables appears much more often than in earlier times. In addition, how to cook a goose in the oven, if before such a bird was obliged to cook in a wood stove? In general, the goose stuffed with all sorts of goodies has become a real rarity, which not all cooks can venture to cook.
