Our family was lucky enough to have a wonderful Slovakian au pair for a couple of years. When we visited her family out in Slovakia, they prepared a wonderful roast goose and duck dish. Now, whilst this isn’t as simple as Keith’s roast duck, it is not complicated…
Ingredients
- Goose or duck – cut into portions skin on. Split breasts into 2 pieces.
- Salt
- Black pepper
- Rosemary
- Cabbage
- Fresh bread
Directions
- Salt all the portions generously and leave for a minimum of 12 hours. This draws out a lot of the water within the meat.
- Wash thoroughly
- Oven to 150°C
- Place the portions into a baking tray/roasting tin, skin side up
- Sprinkle of salt, generous grate of pepper, tear the rosemary over the pieces
- Cover with foil (or use a roasting tin with a lid)
- Bake for 1 1/2 hours
- After 1 1/2 hours, remove the foil and jack the heat up to 250°C
- Shred the cabbage and cook in whatever way you most like – we steam ours over a pan of boiling water then add a generous knob of butter
- Cut the bread into thick slices
- By this time the skin should be nice and crispy so it’s time to serve
- Collect the fat that’s come from the bird portions into a serving jug – not only does this taste excellent when drizzled over the fresh bread but it’s a good start to making lovely gravy and (if you separate off the white layer at the top, using it to fry bacon and eggs in) it’s a fine dripping to go on toast.
- Enjoy. Pleasantries like knives and forks are strictly optional, especially if you pick a leg/wing piece!
If you happen to be able to lay your hands on a bottle of Becherovka, so much the better.
Now, head over to the Recipe Shed for more inspiration.
2 responses to “#RecipeShed – Slovakian Goose and/or duck”
Bloody lovely mate. Loving the idea of goose, though not widely available at the mo? Or is it? Go and grab yourself a Recipe Shed badge from my site. It shows you’re dead cool 🙂 Thanks for joining the Recipe Shed. I’m going to run it every Thursday, so please come back and share again. Look out for Twitter alerts for the next theme. Many thanks. Keith aka Reluctant Housedad
Got the badge, signed up and everything. Last time we did this we used a half-price frozen goose we’d picked up in the local butchers.