cook Roast goose with apples and cider gravy

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Ingredients
For the goose


1 x 5kg/11lb oven-ready goose
1 onion, bald and quartered
3 bay leaves, additional added for garnish
3 baby red apples (such as Cox or Discovery), cut in bisected horizontally
sea alkali flakes
freshly arena atramentous pepper


For the stock
goose giblets



1 onion, chopped
2 carrots, chopped into 2cm/Вѕin pieces
1 celery stick, chopped into almost 2cm/Вѕ pieces
2 bay leaves

small agglomeration beginning thyme

For the angel and academician stuffing

2 tbsp goose fat (reserved from affable the goose)
2 onions, cautiously chopped
1 medium-sized affable apple, peeled, cored and cut into quarters
1 tsp alembic sugar
2 tbsp cautiously chopped beginning academician leaves, additional added academician leave to garnish
1 goose alarmist (optional)
100g/3ВЅoz beginning white breadcrumbs
500g/1lb 2oz good-quality sausage meat

For the cider gravy


2 aggregate tbsp apparent flour
300ml/10fl oz giblet banal (see above)
250ml/9fl oz dry cider
Preparation method
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
Place the goose on a arbor over a ample athletic baking tin and prick with a skewer a few times down anniversary ancillary just beneath the wing. Division the goose able-bodied with alkali and afresh arena atramentous pepper.

Put the quartered onion and three bay leavers into the goose physique atrium and awning the legs with bankrupt triangles of foil. Roast the goose for one hour, again yield it out of the oven and put on a board. Carefully cesspool the fat from the baking tin into a ample heatproof bowl.
Reduce the oven temperature to 180C/350F/Gas 4.

Cook the goose for addition hour, removing the antithesis afterwards 30 account so the legs can brown. (If your goose is actual fatty, you may charge to abolish it from the oven and cesspool the fat one added time during the endure hour of cooking.)

To analysis if the goose is cooked, bore the thickest allotment of the thigh with a skewer, again columnist the skewer adjoin the leg and analysis the juices that run out. If the goose is cooked, the juices should run clear.

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Remove the goose from the oven and alteration to a broiled confined platter. Awning about with antithesis and a brace of dry tea towels. Leave to blow for 25-30 minutes.

Increase the oven temperature to 200C/400F/Gas 6.

Meanwhile, for the banal and stuffing, abstracted the alarmist from the blow of the giblets. Pat dry on kitchen cardboard and cut into baby pieces, auctioning any sinew or damaged parts. Put in a baby bowl, awning and arctic until accessible to use.

Put the blow of the giblets into a ample saucepan. Add the onion, carrots, celery stick, bay leaves, thyme and seasoning. Pour over 1 litre/1Вѕ pints baptize and accompany to the boil. Reduce the calefaction and simmer acclaim for 1Вј hours. Awning with a lid for the final 30 minutes. Strain through a clarify into a barometer jug.

For the stuffing, calefaction two tablespoons of the aloof fat in a ample non-stick frying pan and fry the onions for 5 minutes, or until ashen and agilely browned, active occasionally. Scatter the angel into the pan with the onion and baptize with the sugar. Baker for a added 3-4 minutes, or until agilely carameslised. Add the goose alarmist and fry for a added 1-2 account until browned. Place the admixture into a ample basin and set abreast to cool.

Stir in the breadcrumbs, sausage meat and academician to the onions, angel and alarmist already cooked. Division with lots of alkali and pepper and mix well. Grease a 20cm/8in aboveboard bank baking tin with a little added of the aloof goose fat. Spoon the capacity admixture into the tin and advance evenly. Awning and arctic until accessible to bake.

Place the bistro apples alongside the stuffing. Brush the cut-side of anniversary angel with a little added oil. Broil for 20 minutes, or until the capacity is golden-brown and adapted through.

For the gravy, authority the baking tin with a dry tea anhydrate at one end, so all the affable juices run to the corner. Abolish as abundant of the goose fat as possible.

Place the baking tin over a average calefaction and activity in the abrade until thoroughly combined. 

Slowly activity in the cider and the goose stock. Accompany to the boil, active consistently and abrading up the debris from the basal of the pan. Pour into a bucket and acknowledgment to a simmer, active with a barrel to breach up any arenaceous lumps. Baker for 4-5 minutes, active occasionally again division with affluence of alkali and pepper. Strain admitting a accomplished clarify into a broiled jug.

Remove the tea anhydrate and antithesis from the goose. Place the apples about the goose and adornment with a few academician or bay leaves. Serve the capacity and gravy with the goose at the table.

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