Your royal dish is a Christmas goose

If you still think, than to surprise your guests and family at Christmas or even on any other holiday, it's enough to rack your brains. We have already invented everything for you. And let's make sure that the Christmas goose is on your table. Of course, not live, but, cooked according to our recipes.

If you want your goose to turn out juicy, toasted and very appetizing then the next recipe is just for you.

Christmas goose baked in dough

To prepare this dish you will need:

• a goose (weighing about four kilograms);

• seven to eight potatoes;

• one onion;

• three cloves of garlic;

• a little flour;

• laurel leaf;

• taste salt and pepper.

How to prepare a goose Christmas:

1. First you need to prepare a bird. And to do this, you should wash the goose well, and then dry it. After that you need to rub it inside, and also on top with salt and pepper. Then goose must be stuffed with garlic (crushed), onion (cut into cubes), potatoes (sliced), but beforehand potatoes must be salted, peppered and mixed with onion and garlic. In the end we sew the peritoneum of the goose, and bind the paws.

2. Now let's do the test. To do this, pour the flour with boiling water and make a dough, as in dumplings. That is, it must become elastic and elastic. Roll the dough into a thin, but not translucent layer.

3. In the center of the test, you must lay the goose and wrap it in it, as if in an envelope. In the breast of a bird (it should lie on the back), you should make a hole the size of a walnut. The dough should be lightly pricked with a fork so that it does not swell in the oven. Then we grease the dough with an egg and put it in the oven, already heated up to 200 degrees, for four hours.

4. When serving the table, the dough needs to be beaten (it can not be eaten, it is only for baking).

5. Well, now our Christmas goose is ready. Bon Appetit!

But for those who do not like to experiment, we have prepared another recipe. This recipe for making goose is considered traditional.

Christmas goose with apples

Necessary ingredients:

• one goose (about 4 kilograms);

• 12 apples;

• one quince;

• two carrots;

• one onion;

• two stems of leeks;

• one root of parsley ;

• one celery root;

• three laurel leaves;

• five pieces of fragrant pepper ;

• five pieces of cloves;

• four teaspoons of salt;

• three teaspoons of ground black pepper;

• 150 ml of red strong wine;

• 750 ml of water.

How to prepare a Christmas goose in apples:

1. The quince must be cleaned of the cannon, washed and divided into eight parts (stones must be removed). Six apples should be cut into four pieces and also removed bones.

2. In large pieces cut into such ingredients: carrots, leeks, parsley, one onion and celery root.

3. Mix the salt and pepper. Then we remove the goose and rub our goose with seasonings inside and out.

4. Put the apples in the belly of the goose (how much it will fit) and the quince.

5. Using toothpicks, we connect the edges of the skin to the abdomen, and then tighten the skin with a thread, stretching the thread between the toothpicks crosswise. Throat can also be stuffed with apples and sewed.

6. Pour the water into a pan, add wine, sweet pepper, cloves and bay leaf. Then lay out the goose and the leftovers of the filling.

7. Then we send the bird to the oven with a temperature of 180 degrees for half an hour. After 30 minutes, the goose should be poured a little with juice, turned over and sent back to the oven.

8. The Christmas goose is baked for about an hour and a half. During this time it needs to be poured several times and turned over.

9. When the hour and a half has passed, the goose should be taken out, next to it lay apples with the removed core. The bird should be poured again and put in the oven for another fifteen minutes. In this case, it is necessary that the goose lay breast up.

10. After fifteen minutes, the bird and apples should be poured again and sent to the oven for another fifteen minutes.

11. Then the goose should be greased with salt water, wrapped in foil and put in the oven for another half an hour.

12. Remove the toothpicks when serving.

By the way, this New Year's goose will be an excellent decoration of the table. Its aroma and beautiful golden crust, extraordinarily appetizing look and amazing taste instantly "tell" the guests that you are an excellent hostess!