Any feast becomes festive ifserved baked goose. A Sunday family dinner or New Year’s Eve is not complete without this traditional dish. The bird is baked whole, and various fillings are used as a filling. There are old, time-tested recipes, and there are some fresh ideas using exotic fruits and unusual ingredients. But let's not get too far from the classic options and prepare a beautiful elegant dish. Goose in the oven with rice is a traditional recipe, but there are many interpretations of it.
Preparing a bird
We begin, as usual, with the preparation of the carcass.If it is not perfectly plucked, then remove all the remaining feathers and beat it a little. Then thoroughly wash the bird under running water. Take a container that fits in size, and lay out the goose into it. Fill it with water with the juice of 2-3 lemons. Soak the carcass will be about 12 hours. Next, prepare the marinade.
Classic recipe
Now proceed to the preparation of the filling.Boil a glass of rice with a little salt, but no oil. The goose in the cooking process will release fat, which will soak the filling. Prunes (10 pieces) pour boiling water for 20 minutes, and then cut into small pieces. Peel one onion and cut it into cubes. Mix these three ingredients and add spices to taste. Remove the goose carcass from the marinade and fill.
Goose with rice, apples and prunes
Stuffing plays an important role in the preparation of thisthe dishes. Fruits, dried fruits and spices give their flavor notes and aromas to meat, making it delicious. For the filling you will need a glass of rice, 200 grams of prunes, 3 large green apples, cumin, salt and pepper. This amount is calculated on a carcass weighing about 3-3.5 kilograms. It is also necessary to take a bunch of fresh thyme, black allspice peas, a glass of wine (red dry), another 1 green apple and bay leaf. Thanks to such a large amount of spices, the goose in the oven with rice will be very fragrant. To begin with, let's rub the prepared carcass with salt and pepper and set it aside.
Dish - worthy of kings
This recipe is more complex and rich in variousingredients. But the end result is worth trying to cook this dish. You will need the following products: 25 grams of butter, one apple, one carrot, one celery stalk, one onion, a quarter spoon of thyme dried, 500 milliliters of chicken broth, salt, pepper, 150 grams of wild rice, 200 grams of ordinary rice, 450 grams of chestnuts and goose carcass weighing about 4-5 pounds. Apple, carrots, onions and celery cut into not very large cubes. In a skillet, melt half the butter and lay out the apples. They should be a bit pripupit. Then we shift them into a separate bowl.
Goose with rice and giblets
Для приготовления маленькой тушки гуся (1,5-2 kilograms) you need 300 grams of rice, 2 eggs, 50 grams of onion, 100 grams of butter, 30 grams of dried forest mushrooms, a bunch of parsley, spices, any roots, and about 150 grams of chicken giblets. Carefully separate the skin and meat from the bones. Boil bones, chicken offal and mushrooms in a separate saucepan. Add to them the roots, salt and pepper. Wash rice and pour decoction of bones and giblets. Cook to stay half-baked. Grind offal and mushrooms and mix with rice and spices. There we also add fried onions and chopped eggs. Fill this goose with this filling and sew it up. Top rub the carcass with salt and pepper. Baked goose in the oven with rice for about 2 hours.
Addition
You can add any fruit to the filling.dried fruits, vegetables, spices and roots. Rice put half-baked. In the process of cooking it is saturated with the juice of the remaining ingredients, fat and will be fragrant and tasty. It is better to prepare the goose carcass in advance, rubbing it with spices or putting it in the marinade. Bake better in the sleeve, so the bird will be more juicy and tender.