Braised Goose With Root Vegetables and Gremolata

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Roasting is the accepted mode to grip a goose. But indispensable we ever bow to tradition? A braise is arguably conscionable arsenic flavorful arsenic -- immoderate accidental adjacent much flavorful than -- a roast. And the nutrient stays moist and tender.

If you butcher your ain goose for this recipe, you'll person capable byproducts to nutrient stock, pate, rillettes and a batch of beautiful, utile fat. If you'd alternatively person a butcher bash it, marque definite you instrumentality location the full bird, abdominous and all. All of it tin beryllium used.

Ingredients

10-to-12-pound goose, butchered to 2 bosom halves and 2 limb quarters
1 tablespoonful kosher salt, positive much arsenic needed
8 ounces smoked bacon, chopped into 1/2-inch cubes
3 cups diced bulb (about 3 mean onions)
2 cups diced carrots (about 4 mean carrots)
1 cupful diced celery (about 2 ribs)
1 cupful diced fennel (from 1 mean cored bulb)
2 cups achromatic vermouth oregon achromatic wine
1 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper, positive much arsenic needed
1 1/2 cups chopped parsley
1 tablespoonful caller thyme leaves
1 to 2 quarts goose banal (may substitute homemade oregon no-salt-added chickenhearted broth)
8 shallots, peeled
1 lb turnips, trimmed, each 1 chopped into 8 wedges
1 lb rutabagas, peeled, each 1 chopped into 8 wedges
1 lb aureate beets, peeled, each 1 chopped into 8 wedges
1 lb parsnips, peeled, each 1 chopped into 2-inch pieces
1 clove garlic, minced
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon