Unchained Preppers
General Category => Sustenance => Topic started by: Well-Prepared Witch on September 17, 2013, 11:06:11 PM
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I bought a rabbit at the farmer's market Sunday. It's thawed and going to be cooked tomorrow. Any favorite recipes/methods of preparing it?
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White rice and butter. KISS
Problem with rabbit is its all protein with no fats. Add some fatty shitty pork to its left overs with some potatoes in a crock pot. ( left overs I mean a fresh kill. Bones, liver/heart Stuff like that )
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I am too lazy to write down my wife's recipe but this one is pretty close.
Ingredients:
4 lb Rabbit
1 1/2 c Dry red wine
3/4 c Cider vinegar
2 ts Salt; optional
1/2 ts Freshly ground black pepper
1 Bay leaf
1/2 c Onions; chopped
1 tb Mixed pickling spice
1/2 c Flour
4 tb Butter
1 c Onions; thinly sliced
2 tb Sugar
1/2 c Sour cream
Directions:
Cut rabbit in serving-sized pieces. Wash, scrape, and soak in salted cold water for 1 hour. Drain and dry.
In a glass or pottery bowl mix together the wine, vinegar, salt, pepper, bay leaf, chopped onions, and pickling spice. Add the rabbit and let marinate in the refirgerator for 3 days. Turn the pieces occasinally. Drain the rabbit; strain and reserve the marinade. Dry the rabbit with paper towels and roll in flour.
Melt butter in a Dutch oven or deep heavy skillet; brown the rabbit and sliced onions in it. Pour off fat and add sugar and 1-1/2 cups marinade. Cover and cook over low heat 1-1/2 hours or until rabbit is tender. Turn the pieces occasionally and add more marinade if needed. Taste for seasoning. Mix the sour cream into the gravy just before serving.
http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/18731/hasenpfeffer-%28german-rabbit-stew%29.html (http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/18731/hasenpfeffer-%28german-rabbit-stew%29.html)
My recipe is just like the fried chicken/pork recipe I posted about a week or so ago. The only difference is I fry the rabbit using 2:1 salted butter to olive oil. so 2 tbl spoons of butter to 1 tsp to OO. or 3 tbl spoons of butter to 1 1/2 tbl spoons of OO, etc. The butter gives the rabbit flavor and OO helps to prevent the butter from burning and adds flavor.
Enjoy!
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Thanks! I'll let you know how it turns out.
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Problem with rabbit is its all protein with no fats.
That depends. Mine have plenty of fat. They sit in a 30x30 cage and eat all day. ;) I also vary what I feed them. Peletized food in addition to sunflower heads, various flowers, veggies from the garden like kale and carrots, etc.
Wild rabbits are another story.
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PROBLEMS WITH RABBIT COMES FROM WHEN THAT IS YOUR MAIN SOURCE OF MEAT !
NO ONE THAT I KNOW OF TODAY EATS RABBIT EVERY DAY !
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True-enough cj06...
PROBLEMS WITH RABBIT COMES FROM WHEN THAT IS YOUR MAIN SOURCE OF MEAT !
NO ONE THAT I KNOW OF TODAY EATS RABBIT EVERY DAY !
Like everything in life, moderation is the key to a good life.