Stuffing for the Christmas goose

What you need:

• 1 goose
• 750 g mixed minced meat
• 1 onion
• 100 g diced bacon or ham
• 1 bunch of soup greens (or 2 carrots)
• Salt pepper
• soy sauce
• Paprika powder
• ground caraway seeds
• Breadcrumbs
• 1 - 2 eggs
• 1 - 2 potatoes (optional)
• 100 g diced cheese (optional)

How to prepare the minced meat for the filling

The Christmas goose is usually stuffed with apples or chestnuts. However, should more eaters at the delicious roast meat participate, it is favorable that poultry to be provided with a mince filling.

1. Peel the onion and cut it into small cubes.
2. Prepare the soup vegetables or the carrots and cut everything into small cubes. They chop the parsley.
3. The filling will be spicier if you lightly brown the onions and soup vegetables in a little fat.
4. Use the minced meat, soup vegetables, bacon and eggs as well as breadcrumbs to prepare a firm, but not crumbly minced meat batter.
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5. Season with salt, pepper, caraway seeds, paprika powder and - if you like - with soy sauce. It should be very hearty.
6. It gets more colorful if you still rolled the dice potatoes and / or add cheese cubes, but this is not necessary.

Filling the Christmas goose - that's how it's done

1. Prepare the Christmas goose as usual.
2. Salt and pepper the poultry inside.
3. Fill the prepared minced meat into the goose. Make sure that you don't stuff the animal too hard, otherwise the goose may burst open during roasting. The minced meat should be poured in loosely, but without air bubbles.
4. You can use kitchen thread and a needle to seal the goose (a very safe method). Or you can seal the filling with two roulade needles or small (heat-resistant) skewers.
5. Now prepare the goose as usual. However, you do have to with the Cooking time Consider the weight of the filling, because the minced meat should definitely be cooked through.

Turkeys and ducks can be stuffed in the same way, although ducks need a smaller amount of stuffing. If any of the minced meat is left over, just fry 1 - 2 meatballs from it.