FAO Chef types: Rabbit.

Anonymous
Anonymous Posts: 79,666
edited July 2009 in The Crudcatcher
i was in the butcher earlier buying some steak (my vegetarian wife married a man so i bought 2 and some liver obv) when i noticed a low price on rabbits. i bought a whole skinned and gutted rabbit for 3 quid.

what the funk do you do with a rabbit, what do you serve it with or as and how is it cooked?

ps, i know i could use google but i thought i would see what the forumites could suggest.

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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    In a casserole. They tend to be quite fatty and bony though.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    this one looks very lean, im suprised by how dark the meat looks. im a big fan of caserole type food, basicly enything in one pot which can and should be eaten with a spoon.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    Pie with a suet crust pastry , good with a pigeon in there as well and some eggs and stuff.

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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    Well, because you are a man, there is only one way to eat it, IMO.

    RAW!! Real men don't need cookers, microwaves or fires! :lol:
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  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    Spanish know what to do with wabbit and game. Never rated wabbit over here till I went over there on holiday years ago and had it.

    Summat like that would be a decent base and pointer: http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/2601/spa ... -stew.aspx ...cut the tom sauce out for me though.

    Dun't get more simplez than something like: http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/Poultry%20a ... __ht__.htm


    But Nick's meat fest pie sounds like a good deal if you can get some game tomorrow.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Well, because you are a man, there is only one way to eat it, IMO.

    RAW!! Real men don't need cookers, microwaves or fires! :lol:

    real men can make fire to cook with :wink:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    blister pus: those recipes look lovely, not too heavy either considering they are stews . i might give that first one a try
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Keith Floyd style:

    Wood mark 6 for, well, until it's ready. Slurp!

    Legend.
  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    Actually that first one with nice smoked paprika will probably be an absolute star. :D

    I might well be having a butchers in teh butchers myself at this rate. :lol:
  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    sheepsteeth - I know real men can make fire to cook with. But as I said, it's unnesscery! (sp?)

    Seriously though, strip the meat from the bone, and BBQ it. LOVELY! As everyone knows, a proper wood-cooked (none of this gas / coal crap! :lol: ) meal is the best tasting meal you will get! 8)
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    sheepsteeth - I know real men can make fire to cook with. But as I said, it's unnesscery! (sp?)

    Seriously though, strip the meat from the bone, and BBQ it. LOVELY! As everyone knows, a proper wood-cooked (none of this gas / coal crap! :lol: ) meal is the best tasting meal you will get! 8)

    i was in kenya earlier this year and virtually every day for about a month we had wood cooked steaks which were nearly a4 sized and atleast an inch thick!! good times.
  • stickygreen
    stickygreen Posts: 339
    wait till OH is out for the night cook it, eat straight off the bone with hands, and a couple of beers.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    Speaking of Steak.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    now that is a good looking piece of meat, there is no way i would share that with anyone.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Dunno, he looks a bit skinny to me. Breakfast at most.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    I had a rabbit curry once, it was a kind of rabbit balti. Lovely!
  • jadeweed
    jadeweed Posts: 74
    I Love rabbit! Really nice lean meat. If you are bbq'ing, make sure you marinade well (plenty of oil to keep it from drying out)
    Otherwise, I would stick it in a stew....cook up some real good quality smokey bacon or pancetta, then fry the rabbit in the bacon fat until browned. Add a load of shallots, carrots, garlic, thyme. Bit of flour, stock and wine. Bubble away for a couple of hours and jobsagoodun!

    ps, if your not squeemish, keep some of the joints with the bones in the stew. Adds to the flavour.
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    I love rabbit too....

    great in pies, stews etc, but also roasted....my favourite is the confit style of cooking, where you give it a good rub with salt and pepper and garlic, then leave it in the fridge overnight.

    then...brush off all the salt etc and slam that wabbit in the oven at about 120c and leave it in there for about 6 hours!

    Just keep checking it and when it is as soft as you want it, take it out....but basically anywhere between 2 and 10 hours is doable....

    Yum.

    Also good if there is a lot of it...you can stick it in a tupperware, cover it in the fat that rendered off, and that will keep in the fridge for a few weeks....to reheat...just get it back in the oven and then do your roast tatties in the fat that re-melts....
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    these all sound lush. i think im gonna go for a stew so that will have to be tomorrows tea, will be a steak tonight though.
  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    will be a steak tonight though
    You have no idea how jealous I am!

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  • Biggus86
    Biggus86 Posts: 385
    my ma made me a rabbit stew some months ago, very stringy and not very much meat on it... so i've gone back to lamb stews
  • The Spiderman
    The Spiderman Posts: 5,625
    Once skinned a hare and cooked it over a campfire.Tasted lovely. :lol:
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  • deadliest
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    nicklouse wrote:
    Speaking of Steak.
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  • BigJimmyB
    BigJimmyB Posts: 1,302
    supersonic wrote:
    In a casserole. They tend to be quite fatty and bony though.

    Fatty? Never.

    Theya er great meat, cholesterol free and virtually no fat. Little nutritional value though, apparaently.

    Mrs BJB marindaes a jointed one in lemon and thyme and garlic overnight, then pan fries or roasts then serves with chips OR,

    They make a great curry!

    I've got some more reciped somewhere, I'll dig them out.