Cajun Pecan-Smoked Goose

Goose is simply a Christmas classic. Why not brace it with wood-smoking, a accepted American cooking method? Low-and-slow indirect smoking creates an earthiness that complements the meat’s profoundly affluent flavor, making for a genuinely peculiar vacation meal, particularly erstwhile the goose is served with Spiced Fig Gravy (see related recipe).

You tin bargain a frozen goose astatine the supermarket this clip of twelvemonth and defrost it successful the refrigerator, oregon bargain a caller goose astatine Eastern Market.

You’ll request 4 cups of pecan, cherry oregon maple wood chips -- oregon immoderate operation of them -- that person been soaked successful h2o for astatine slightest 1 hour.

You whitethorn harvester the adust hitch a mates of days before, store it successful a sealed instrumentality successful the pantry (not the refrigerator), and usage it erstwhile preparing the goose.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 12)

• Calories

  770

• Fat

  54 g

• Saturated Fat

  17 g

• Carbohydrates

  4 g

• Sodium

  760 mg

• Cholesterol

  225 mg

• Protein

  62 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen" (William Morrow, 1984).

Tested by Jim Shahin.

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• Spiced Fig Gravy
• Cranberry-Pistachio Chutney