I'll have to tell you that I have been a little disappointed in the rabbit dishes I've tried since I restarted this little enterprise.
The recipes I've tried have been mostly bummers with a couple of real successes. Wife says the successes are too few and the flops too frequent.
Rabbit fried just like skinless chicken is not bad, but a little dry for my taste.
Rabbit and dumpling is an outstanding success. I boil the rabbit with salt and pepper, add chicken buillon cubes. Save the broth, take meat off bones and make dumplings. I add the meat back to the pot though my wife prefers to add it to the bowl. Using my dumpling recipe the broth remains almost clear, more like chicken and noodles. If the dumplings do not get light and fluffy you have done something wrong--I use only water, salt, flour and baking powder.
Rabbit in the crock pot with bbq sauce flopped here. Edible but not a winner.
Still have to try rabbit in the crock pot with mushroom soup.
A gold star winner was a recipe I found in one of my game cook recipe books. Fry sliced onions in butter until clear (a large onion to a rabbit is about right). Take onion out of pan, salt and pepper rabbit and brown well, then simmer about l5 minutes in butter in the pan, adding butter if needed. Add back the cooked onion, turn heat to low and cook until rabbit is fork tender.
If you have any outstanding recipes, please share. If I cannot persuade my wife that rabbit is worth cooking I may as well get out of the game.
Ox
The recipes I've tried have been mostly bummers with a couple of real successes. Wife says the successes are too few and the flops too frequent.
Rabbit fried just like skinless chicken is not bad, but a little dry for my taste.
Rabbit and dumpling is an outstanding success. I boil the rabbit with salt and pepper, add chicken buillon cubes. Save the broth, take meat off bones and make dumplings. I add the meat back to the pot though my wife prefers to add it to the bowl. Using my dumpling recipe the broth remains almost clear, more like chicken and noodles. If the dumplings do not get light and fluffy you have done something wrong--I use only water, salt, flour and baking powder.
Rabbit in the crock pot with bbq sauce flopped here. Edible but not a winner.
Still have to try rabbit in the crock pot with mushroom soup.
A gold star winner was a recipe I found in one of my game cook recipe books. Fry sliced onions in butter until clear (a large onion to a rabbit is about right). Take onion out of pan, salt and pepper rabbit and brown well, then simmer about l5 minutes in butter in the pan, adding butter if needed. Add back the cooked onion, turn heat to low and cook until rabbit is fork tender.
If you have any outstanding recipes, please share. If I cannot persuade my wife that rabbit is worth cooking I may as well get out of the game.
Ox
