Before the holidays, many housewives are concerned about the 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 delicious, so that after each piece of it any member of the family wants to get an additive. This is not too complicated, although it requires certain skills and experience.
For many women who like to pamper themselves and their loved ones with something tasty, cooking a goose is not at all a problem. They know for sure that this bird, in fact, cooks herself if it is properly prepared and stuffed with her favorite filling. The main difficulty is that this dish must be cooked 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 amount of patience so as not to interrupt the baking process too early.
Before you cook a goose in the oven, you should not only be patient, but also select the necessary ingredients, tools and utensils, best of all - a goose. To create this tasty and fragrant dish you will need: goose (medium-sized carcass) and apples (1500 gr.). Butter (50 gr.), Salt, pepper or other seasonings, as well as greens - basil, dill, parsley and mint can also be useful. The goose carcass must be carefully gutted, rid of entrails and feathers, washed 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 cook). Even before you cook a goose in the oven for baking, you should take apples for stuffing. They can be washed and cleaned in advance, then cut into several parts and put into the carcass of a goose, which is then carefully sewn up with threads.
The goose prepared in this way is greased with butter and transferred to the goose bowl. After this, it remains only to pour a little water (100-150 gr.) Into the dishes and place it in the oven. In the process of baking, it is necessary to periodically look into the goose bowl and water the carcass from above with melting fat. The bird should be cooked as long as it is required depending on its size, but on average about one and a half to two hours, after which it is necessary to remove the dish, remove all the threads and put the bird on a wide plate, decorating washed and chopped greens before serving .
If it seems that this process is too complicated, and you would like to know how to cook a goose in the oven a little faster and without extra effort, you should pay attention to the following recipe. It will require a bird’s carcass directly, a set of spices and a baking sleeve. Carefully prepared birds should be cleaned, removed from feathers, rinsed, grated with spices and laid in a sleeve for two hours. When the bird is thoroughly soaked, it will be necessary to make several punctures in its skin with a fork, then again pack it in the sleeve and send it to the oven. After about two, two and a half hours, the finished dish can be removed, cut and served at the festive table, seasoning with herbs and favorite sauces.
At all times, women knew very well how to bake a goose and serve it beautifully to the table. The rosy bird stuffed with apples served as a symbol of the high level of mastery of the housewife and the great prosperity in her house. Many years ago, a goose with apples could appear equally on the royal table, and at dinners with ordinary people. Unfortunately, the modern world has deprived us of many wonderful recipes and skills, and chicken on our holiday tables appears much more often than in previous times. In addition, how to cook a goose in the oven, if before such a bird had to cook in a wood stove? In general, a goose stuffed with all kinds of goodies has become a real rarity, not all cooks can dare to cook it.