How long do goose legs take in the oven?
Poultry is accessed in German households not only on Christmas days, no, also during the rest of the year. During preparation, however, questions arise such as: How long do goose legs actually take in the oven? It's not as difficult as you might think.
You hear it again and again, despite numerous recipe suggestions duck and goose just not work out perfectly. It's a bit confusing when a certain recipe works with one housewife and not at all with another. Sometimes, however, it is really just the little things that cause many to fail. If you have already had this experience and are also wondering how long goose legs really need, until they are tender and still crispy in the oven, you should know that there are different ways to achieve a perfect result achieve.
Braise the goose legs in the oven
If you braise your goose legs in the oven, they do not take very long, but they are wonderfully tender afterwards.
- Rinse your goose legs with it water and pat them dry with kitchen towels. Then salt and pepper them.
- Now take this and fry it all around in a roaster for about 5 minutes. In the meantime, your oven should be preheated to 180 degrees. Now take the legs out of the roaster and put the finely chopped soup vegetables and the also chopped onion in the roaster and fry this briefly.
- Now take the goose legs and place them on top of the vegetables, pour with Wine and vegetable stock and let everything cook in the oven for 60 minutes, turning twice. When you turn this over the second time, the skin side should be up so that it turns nice and crispy brown.
Cooking at low temperatures in the oven takes a little longer, but that ...
This is how long it takes goose legs to cook at low temperatures
- Low-temperature cooking is relatively easy, but the goose legs take a relatively long time to cook perfectly. To do this, prepare them as described above.
- Here you should sear the legs all around for about 10 minutes. Your oven should be preheated to 80 degrees. Then place the legs on a grid with the skin side up and place a drip pan underneath.
- Now these need a cooking time of about 2 hours. In the last 15 minutes, set the oven temperature to 220 degrees and switch on the grill function so that perfect browning is achieved here too. This is how you get tender and tasty goose legs.
With both cooking methods, when the cooking time is complete, pierce the with a slightly thicker needle meat and then hold it to your lower lip. If you feel warm with it, the meat is perfectly cooked. Since there are very small differences in size in the case of goose legs, you can adhere to the cooking times mentioned without hesitation.
