Roast Goose With Wild Rice-Chestnut Stuffing

"This is one way Christmas dinner was prepared in Dicken's day! Adapted from YANKEE MAGAZINE. Cooking time includes about 1 1/2 hours for rice to cook and cool. (I used a wild rice blend I found in bulk) Canned chestnuts can be found in specialty stores. Make sure they are NOT packed in syrup! The original recipe did not pierce skin and fat, which I did to help "drain" off excess grease. It also said to put whole goose on serving platter and garnish with pine sprigs and sliced blood oranges, but I find it messy to try to carve at the table and dig stuffing out to serve. If you are more adventuresome, serve this way :) NOTE: 'Zaar will not let me put in "1 10-12 lb. goose" so it comes up "10 lbs. geese""
 
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Ready In:
6hrs 40mins
Ingredients:
12
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Cooked wild rice according to package instructions (you should have about 4 cups cooked). Set aside to cool.
  • Preheat oven to 350ºF.
  • Remove giblets from goose. Remove loose fat from around cavity openings. Discard or reserve for another use.
  • Prick skin and fat with a skewer in several places, being careful not to pierce meat.
  • Sprinkle goose inside and out with salt and pepper. Rub with orange zest.
  • Fry bacon in a skillet until crisp. Add onion, celery and parsley and sauté 5 minutes.
  • Stir in chestnuts, cooked rice and herbs. Season to taste with salt.
  • Stuff goose with this mixture. "Sew" cavity shut with skewers and cotton twine. (do not stuff goose until ready to roast).
  • Place goose breast side up on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Roast about 20 minutes per pound. (if skin begins to brown too much, cover loosely with foil.).
  • Remove to cutting board and let rest 15 minutes.
  • Remove stuffing to a bowl and carve goose.

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  1. I finally tried this recipe this past Christmas. It came out great! I couldn't find wild rice so I substituted with a rice medley mix. The goose was tasty and so was the stuffing. I will probably try it again next Christmas...
     
  2. We thoroughly enjoyed this stuffing - in a chicken not a goose. I'm not at all sure that I can recall ever having eaten goose but when I think of goose I continue to be haunted by my brother's experience on picking up his Christmas goose in England and being told that the goose he was buying was "Emily"; and that she'd always been "such a very nice little goose"... knowledge which, I gather, had rather detracted from their enjoyment in eating of Emily. So I really didn't want to know the chicken's name! Anyway, my focus was the stuffing. I was drawn to this recipe by the sheer yummy-sounding nature of the ingredients and made the full quota of the stuffing though it was clearly going to be more than one medium-sized free-range chicken could accommodate. Just loved the wild rice, orange zest, chestnuts and herbs in this - and bacon is always a great addition to stuffings. I also added a few drops of orange juice. Perhaps it was the act of a culinary philistine, but I did add one chopped leek and 4 cloves of minced garlic to the pan in step 6, then because I felt something was needed to bind the ingredients, I added an egg. What didn't fit into the chicken, I placed in an ovenproof dish and cooked separately. FABULOUS STUFFING: just loved it. and could happily eat it on its own by the spoonful. Moist and flavoursome and great textual variation : FANTASTIC. Thank you for sharing this recipe!
     
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