STEAMED AND FIRE-ROASTED GOOSE WITH BLOOD ORANGE SAUCE

Steps:

• Add the wine, fresh ginger, olive oil, pepper, 4 cloves garlic and sliced onions to a large bowl and toss well. Add goose, cover and leave in fridge, turning goose once a day, for 2 days.
• Remove goose from marinade. Leave at room temperature for 2 hours.
• Prepare a roasting pan with a rack. Add ground ginger, 3 bay leaves and 2 cups water.
• Pat dry, and rub goose with salt and pepper.
• Heat roasting pan on low heat until water is simmering. Place goose on rack. Cover pan tightly with foil. Steam goose on low for 45 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Uncover roasting pan and remove and reserve fat in the pan. Clean pan and place goose on the rack.
• Bake goose until legs can be detached by hand, about 1 hour 30 minutes. Remove breasts and legs. Increase the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Chop carcass. Add to simmering chicken stock in a large stockpot with peppercorns, whole onions, 6 cloves garlic and remaining 3 bay leaves. Cook for 3 hours. Skim regularly. Strain and reduce to 2 cups.
• Add the potatoes, rutabaga and turnips to a large pot of simmering salted water. Cook until tender.
• Add the goose fat to a roasting pan, then add the vegetables, shallots and remaining 8 cloves garlic and roast, turning occasionally, until golden brown. Remove vegetables from fat and keep hot.
• Reheat the goose and keep warm with vegetables.
• Make blood orange sauce: Zest 2 blood oranges. Cut away the remaining white pith, then cut the segments free from the membranes. Juice the remaining blood orange.
• Add cassis syrup and 1/2 cup blood orange juice to a saucepan. Cook until syrupy and lightly golden, then add limoncello. Add the goose stock and butter. Add blood orange sections at last minute.
• Carve goose, place on a platter and garnish with vegetables and blood orange sauce.