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Goose with Chestnuts and Cumberland Sauce

A festive dish featuring tender goose meat stuffed with chestnuts, apple, and celery. Served with a piquant Cumberland sauce made from port wine, orange, and vinegar — a striking contrast of hot meat and cold spicy sauce.

Prep
720 min
Cooking
435 min
Total
1155 min
Standard serving
421.8 g

Ingredients

Total 15

Instructions

  1. 1

    Step 1

    Place the goose in the refrigerator overnight in a large pot with sea salt solution.

  2. 2

    Step 2

    Before stuffing, cut the fat from the goose's tail and rub the inside with lemon juice.

  3. 3

    Step 3

    Prepare the filling: slice the apple, cut the orange and potato into cubes, slice the celery into rounds. Add coarsely chopped chestnuts and raisins, mix well.

    Stuff the goose with the prepared mixture.

  4. 4

    Step 4

    Preheat the oven to 175 °C. Put the goose in the oven. Cooking time depends on the weight: 20–25 minutes per 500 g.

  5. 5

    Step 5

    While the goose is cooking, prepare the sauce. Mix beef broth with port wine, juice from three oranges, red wine vinegar, black pepper and allspice. Add finely chopped shallot.

  6. 6

    Step 6

    Place the mixture on the heat, bring to a boil and simmer until the liquid has evaporated by two-thirds (approximately 25 minutes). Strain the sauce and cool in the refrigerator.

  7. 7

    Step 7

    Serve hot goose with cold Cumberland sauce.

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