Anyone have a good recipe for Rabbit?

[Kaido]

So I was at my local grocery store today buying some meat for this weekend's cooking projects when suddenly: "Fresh Rabbit". Yup, fresh rabbit in my grocery store. I almost bought it on the spot (last time I did an impulse meat purchase, they had ostrich steaks, how could I resist :biggrin but figured I'd check to see if it was worth buying.

Anyone have a good recipe for rabbit meat?

 

[lxskllr]

How were the ostrich steaks? Dunno how to do rabbit. When in doubt, I default to stir fry. Squirrel's good that way.

 

[eldorado99]

I don't know anything about rabbit except it is supposed to make great stew, but then anything does.

 

[Kaido]

How were the ostrich steaks? Dunno how to do rabbit. When in doubt, I default to stir fry. Squirrel's good that way.

Not bad, but they were small - like a pair of 4-ounce steaks for $9 if I remember right. INSANELY high protein, like 24 grams of protein in the 4-ounce steaks! The flavor was good but it was very tough meat - it was actually better with steak sauce, like steak & eggs, than just as a steak. Plus I can now say I've eaten an ostrich :awe:

They also had duck, which I had never seen before at a grocery store. The rabbit really threw me off though, and it actually looked really good. I've heard of rabbit stew and stuff, but wanted to find some tasty recipes to try. I thought I was pretty cool eating weird stuff like alligator and ostrich until I talked to the checkout clerk at the local Cabela's indoor restaurant - he had previously traveled the world and had eaten everything from elephant to lion. It's hard to one-up someone who has eaten a lion

 

[Kaido]

I don't know anything about rabbit except it is supposed to make great stew, but then anything does.

Yeah rabbit stew is all I've really heard of. The meat kind of looked like turkey, so it actually looked pretty decent to try. Never really made much stew before so maybe I'll give it a shot...

 

[Fritzo]

Rabbit can be cooked just like chicken. Any chicken recipe just substitute rabbit. It fries really well, or you can make stews or simply roast it.

Rabbit is a very versatile and mild meat. I'm surprised we don't eat more of it.

 

[Kaido]

I'm surprised we don't eat more of it.

I always think of that scene in BTTF, part 3 when McFly is eating the rabbit and spitting out the bullets :biggrin:

 

[Ken g6]

I hear the Germans have a suggestion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasenpfeffer

 

[BoomerD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bGvv2VUP_8

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Rabbit can be cooked just like chicken. Any chicken recipe just substitute rabbit. It fries really well, or you can make stews or simply roast it.

Not even close. Rabbit needs to be slow-cooked to be edible, treat it like a really tough cut of beef. It's best done stewed, braised or not at all.

 

[LurchFrinky]

I've only had fried rabbit. It was a long, long time ago when my aunt & uncle raised rabbits for meat and I watched them butcher about a dozen or so.
It was really good and surprisingly similar to fried chicken (frying will do that). It was super fresh, so I don't know if your rabbit would fare as well.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYiCPmwOV4A

 

[SlitheryDee]

I just pulled an old GF rotisserie out of storage a few weeks ago. It has become my new obsession of late. I imagine a whole rabbit would be about the same size as a whole chicken, and it would be almost like the old way of cooking them over a fire on a spit. Now you have me thinking about this. I think I'd have to kill my own rabbits to get them here though. Shit.

 

[Kaido]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYiCPmwOV4A

PO TAH TOES :biggrin:

* stupid fat hobbitses

 

[Kaido]

I just pulled an old GF rotisserie out of storage a few weeks ago. It has become my new obsession of late. I imagine a whole rabbit would be about the same size as a whole chicken, and it would be almost like the old way of cooking them over a fire on a spit. Now you have me thinking about this. I think I'd have to kill my own rabbits to get them here.

http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Rabbit-F...dp/B004RUN2CC/

 

[SlitheryDee]

http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Rabbit-F...dp/B004RUN2CC/

I know about amazon, but I don't trust it to be quality and i know it wont be fresh. I've said before that the only thing that could inspire me to hunt is the desire for meat. I may take up rabbit hunting at some point just to figure out how it cooks up when freshly killed.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Classic French recipe for rabbit:

http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Rabbit-Cooked-with-Dijon-Mustard

During the braise portion (step 4), reduce the heat to med-low to get a very minimum simmer and cook for 45 min. to an hour instead. ime it helps to keep the meat moist and tender.

 

[DigDog]

https://www.youtube.com/results?sea...75.1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.Y1TR06SfG1M
there ya go

 

[Fritzo]

Not even close. Rabbit needs to be slow-cooked to be edible, treat it like a really tough cut of beef. It's best done stewed, braised or not at all.

Hmmm....I'll have to go back to all those people I fed breaded fried rabbit and tell them it was tough after all.

In fact, I use a method similar to this:

http://georgiapellegrini.com/2011/03/28/recipes/buttermilk-fried-rabbit-2/

 

[DeadFred]

Hmmm....I'll have to go back to all those people I fed breaded fried rabbit and tell them it was tough after all.

In fact, I use a method similar to this:

http://georgiapellegrini.com/2011/03/28/recipes/buttermilk-fried-rabbit-2/

:thumbsup:

Fried is the only way to eat a rabbit!!!

 

[Murloc]

I don't like rabbit much, but ostrich is really good.

Rabbit is usually done in salmì, which is a stew with wine in it. It's too tough for other stuff. That fried rabbit recipe that was linked has lengthy steps to avoid toughening of the meat and says that the rabbit has to be young, so it doesn't disprove this.

They also had duck, which I had never seen before at a grocery store.

lol you're losing out on so much, I eat duck fairly often and it's found in most supermarkets, not just at the bulk meat store (where they sell any meat).
What next, you're gonna tell me they don't sell horse meat in the US?

Spoiler

j/k I know they're holy animals for anglo-saxons

 

[DrPizza]

We slowly cook it in a white wine with rosemary, garlic, onion, salt, pepper; slow simmer in a covered frying pan for a couple hours.

 

[Kaido]

lol you're losing out on so much, I eat duck fairly often and it's found in most supermarkets, not just at the bulk meat store (where they sell any meat).
What next, you're gonna tell me they don't sell horse meat in the US?

Spoiler

j/k I know they're holy animals for anglo-saxons

How do you cook your duck? I've only had it good at once place - spicy basil duck, it was amazing!

 

[Fritzo]

I don't like rabbit much, but ostrich is really good.

Rabbit is usually done in salmì, which is a stew with wine in it. It's too tough for other stuff. That fried rabbit recipe that was linked has lengthy steps to avoid toughening of the meat and says that the rabbit has to be young, so it doesn't disprove this.


lol you're losing out on so much, I eat duck fairly often and it's found in most supermarkets, not just at the bulk meat store (where they sell any meat).
What next, you're gonna tell me they don't sell horse meat in the US?

Spoiler

j/k I know they're holy animals for anglo-saxons

You just have to pound the meat a bit. It's not a big deal. I do that to chicken breasts too.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

How do you cook your duck? I've only had it good at once place - spicy basil duck, it was amazing!

Confit duck isn't hard, and it's amazing.