Rick Stein Roast Christmas Goose Recipe | Classic Christmas Main Course

Ingredients

• 1 x 4.5–5kg oven-ready goose
• salt and black pepper
• 3 large onions, finely chopped
• 75g goose fat
• 200g fresh white breadcrumbs
• 200g vacuum-packed chestnuts, chopped
• finely grated zest of 1 lemon
• 4 tbsp chopped fresh sage
• 3 tbsp chopped parsley
• 1 large egg, beaten
• oil, for greasing
• 4 rashers streaky bacon, chopped
• goose giblets
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 2 celery sticks, chopped
• 2 bay leaves
• 6 black peppercorns
• 1 tbsp flour
• 2 heaped tbsp plain flour
• 4 Cox’s apples, peeled, cored and sliced