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Fried goose breast with black pudding

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Fried goose breast with brawn on the thigh with black pudding and lingonberries
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Recipe type: Main
Author: Jesper Johansson, Grythytte akademi
Serves: 10
Ingredients
  • Oven 150°C/300°F
  • 2 goose breasts, with the bone
  • goose fat
  • Brawn on the thighs:
  • 4 goose thigh bone
  • 1 carrot, roughly chopped
  • 1 onion, coarsely chopped
  • 50g (1¾ oz) bacon, salted
  • liter (2¼ cups) chicken stock
  • 2dl (1 cup) red wine
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 4 allspice
  • 2 shallots, chopped
  • goose fat / butter
  • Black pudding:
  • Preheat the oven to 175°C/350°F.
  • 1/2 liters (2¼ cups) goose blood
  • 3dl (1¼ cups) light beer
  • 3dl (1¼ cups) coarse rye flour
  • 1 red onion, finely chopped, lightly fried
  • 50g (1¾ oz) lard into small cubes
  • 1 apple, finely diced
  • 1/2dl (¼ cup) melted butter
  • 1/2dl (¼ cup) syrup
  • 1/2 tablespoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • a pinch of ground white pepper
  • a pinch ground allspice
  • a pinch ground cloves
  • Lingonberry:
  • 3dl (1¼ cups) lingonberries, frozen
  • 1½dl (¾ cup) raw sugar
  • Vegetables:
  • 5 parsley roots, peeled
  • 5 carrots, peeled
  • butter
  • salt and pepper
Instructions
Goose breasts:
  1. Fry the goose breasts in a skillet with eventually some extra goose fat, baste the meat and let it get a proper browning.
  2. Cook in oven until the breasts reach 65°C/150°F in the center.
  3. Let rest in foil about 15 minutes. Cut the breasts into thin slices.
Brawn on the thighs:
  1. Brown the thighs in a saucepan.
  2. Add the vegetables and bacon and let them get browned.
  3. Add the stock and red wine and spices, then cover and simmer gently for two hours until meat comes off the bone.
  4. Strain everything, save the broth.
  5. Pick the meat free from bone and skin, remove the vegetables and spices. Sweat two shallots, and add the picked meat, pour in the broth and reduce the brawn, it should be a little saucy. Add if necessary some goose fat or butter.
Black pudding:
  1. Strain the blood and mix it with beer and rye flour.
  2. Add the onion and stir in all other ingredients except bacon and apple.
  3. Whisk vigorously, then stir in the lard and apple cubes.
  4. Fry a sample and taste the seasoning.
  5. Grease small individual molds and divide the batter into them. Cover with buttered paper and then foil. Bake the pudding in a water bath in the hot oven for about 30 minutes.
  6. Try with a stick if the pudding is ready. Let pudding cool in the molds.
Lingonberry:
  1. Stir the berries with the raw sugar until the sugar has melted.
Vegetables:
  1. Cut the vegetables into wedges lengthwise and brown them in frying pan with butter. Season with salt and pepper.
  2. Cook them slowly until ready in the pan or the oven.
 
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This in an updated version of the traditional roast goose dinner. Why not try this recipe for St Martin’s day? You can read more about the tradition on serviving goose in Sweden on the 10th of November on Sweden.se.

Stuffed cabbage rolls with lingonberries

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Stuffed cabbage rolls with lingonberries
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Recipe type: Main
Author: Jesper Johansson, Grythytte akademi
Serves: 10
Ingredients
  • Cabbage rolls:
  • 1½ kg cabbage
  • 2 teaspoons salt/liter of water
  • 1/2dl rice
  • 1dl water
  • 4dl milk 3%
  • 1/2 onion, chopped, sautéed in butter – cool
  • 350g minced meat
  • 1 egg
  • 1½ teaspoons salt
  • 2 pinches of white pepper
  • 2 tablespoons syrup
  • butter
  • water
  • Sauce:
  • 4dl veal stock – from rolls
  • 2 tablespoons plain flour
  • 2 tablespoons water, stir together with the flour
  • 1dl whipping cream
  • salt and pepper
  • a little soy
Instructions
Cabbage:
  1. Cut away the hard center of the cabbage.
  2. Boil water with salt in a large saucepan.
  3. Add the cabbage and simmer, remove the leaves by hand as they soften and fall off.
  4. Add the leaves on a towel to dry, cut away the thick center of each leave. You need about 20 leaves.
Mince mix:
  1. Boil the rice with water, pour off water and add the milk. Let the rice simmer for 20 minutes and then cool.
  2. Mix rice, onion, eggs, ground meat and spices until smooth.
  3. Distribute small balls of mince on the cabbage leaves and shape to a roll.
  4. Fry the rolls in butter and drizzle with syrup. Add the rolls in a pot.
  5. Boil out the pan with a little veal stock and then pour it over the rolls, pour over all the veal stock (see below).
  6. Simmer the rolls gently for about 20 minutes, strain the gravy and use for sauce.
Sauce:
  1. Whisk in the flour and water in the stock, and simmer for 5 minutes.
  2. Stir in the cream, bring to the boil and season with salt and pepper, and possibly some soy.
Presentation:
  1. Serve with mashed potatoes and lingonberry sauce.
 
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Minced venison ”Järpar”

Minced venison with creamed chantarelles and lingonberries

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Minced venison ”Järpar” with creamed chanterelles mushrooms and lingonberries
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Recipe type: Main
Author: Restaurangakademin Stockholm
Serves: 10
Lovely hearty main dish with flavors from the Swedish forests.
Ingredients
  • Minced venison ”Järpar”:
  • 1kg (2,2 lbs) minced venison meat
  • 500g (1 lb) minced pork meat or veal
  • 2 yellow onions
  • 2 eggs
  • 100g (3½ oz) breadcrumbs soaked in water
  • 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
  • 1dl (½ cup) milk
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 tablespoon fresh thyme
  • Creamed chanterelles mushrooms:
  • 1kg (1 lb) chanterelles
  • 2 shallots (chopped finely)
  • 5dl (2 cups) cream
  • 1dl (½ cup) white wine
  • 1dl (½ cup) brown veal stock
  • salt and pepper
  • Lingonberries:
  • 200g (7 oz) frozen lingonberries
  • 120g (4¼ oz) sugar
Instructions
Minced venison ”Järpar”:
  1. Peel and chop the onion fine and sautee in a pan and chill.
  2. Mix the venison and pork with some salt and add in the eggs.
  3. Add the onion, breadcrumbs, milk, pepper and mustard and mix to a smooth ”batter”.
  4. Season with salt and thyme and make a test by fry a piece in a pan, taste and check the texture.
  5. Form into quenelles on a trey and bake in a 100°C/210°F oven until 65°C/150°F inside.
Creamed chanterelles mushrooms:
  1. Clean and trim the mushrooms and sautee in a wide pot with oil and butter.
  2. Add the shallots and then the wine and let it reduce.
  3. Add the veal stock and reduce to a 1/3 remains.
  4. Add cream and cook until it thickens, season with salt and pepper.
Lingonberries:
  1. Mix together and let the sugar melt with the berries.
Presentation:
  1. Fine cut chives and scallions.
  2. Serve with boiled potatoes or mash.
 
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The recipe is created by Restaurangakademin Stockholm for The Swedish Embassies and Consulates.