Ok I was raised a city girl and moved to the country about 12 years ago. We have been pretty lucky to be able to supply plenty of meat for our family thru deer,hog,fish and lastly the grocery store when needed. The boys have taken up squirrel hunting so that will be on the table soon. Well today I bought a few meat rabbits just to have another source of food. Now I just need some good recipes. Anyone have any they care to share?
Meat Rabbits
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I envy you, as I have been in the city my entire life, and regretfully I know nothing of raising, and preparing an animal for food.
This is an area I need to study up on.
- 1 rabbit, about 3 pounds, cut up
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 2 medium onions, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 1 teaspoon salt
- dash pepper
- 1 bay leaf
- 4 cups water
- 4 cups dry red wine
- 2 cups diced carrots
- 4 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
- 4 ounces sliced mushrooms, sauteed
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup water
Directions for rabbit stew.
Dredge rabbit pieces with 1/2 cup flour. Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium heat; brown rabbit pieces on all sides. Add celery, onion, salt, pepper, bay leaf, 4 cups water, and wine; bring to the boil. Reduce heat to a simmer, cover, and simmer rabbit stew for 2 hours. Add carrots, potatoes, and mushrooms; cook for about 25 to 30 minutes longer, or until vegetables are tender. Combine 1/4 cup flour and 1/3 cup water; stir until well blended and smooth. Stir flour mixture into the broth; cook and stir until thickened.
Rabbit stew recipe serves
Young enough, just fry them up like chicken. I use rabbit in place of chicken in a lot of recipes, I just add a touch more fat to whatever it is since rabbit is so lean.
Clydesdale, can't you raise a few rabbits and call them pets? They are easy enough to butcher inside so the neighbors don't see.
Clydesdale, can't you raise a few rabbits and call them pets? They are easy enough to butcher inside so the neighbors don't see.
We started Rabbits this past summer - have had several litters. Just killed our first rabbit a few weeks ago and it went well. Just bought two new females this week and have breed both of them. Currently have 4 expecting. We have both Californians and New Zealand's. We are planning a killing/canning day in about 6 weeks. We should have about 30-40 to do in one day.
Are you going to split the butchering and canning up over a couple of days? What sized canner are you using?
I think you can cook rabbits in a lot of ways. Chicken recipes work well, IME as do stews. Rabbits are more meaty than squirrels so they have a better diversity in recipes. I like to "Spit cook" bushy tails or cut 'em into pieces and quick fry 'em so they don't get too tough. THey're also okay in astew or chili too though.
You can parboil them before frying them to make them tender if it's an older beastie.
hi aimol , if you will brine your rabbits , your taste buds will thank you!
How about hasenpfeffer? It's a German dish made with rabbit... Here is a YouTube video to show you how it's made.
Hey, how do you think I learned to cook? LOL
im a wed hot sportsman after wild game. be very quiet, im hunting wabbits.......elmer fudd
Stock plenty of beans.
I have Californian/ New Zealands in a backyard colony. My favorite recipe is-
-1 bunny chopped into about 10 pieces and thrown into a big pot
-2 tbsp butter
- 1 shot of whisky
- an onion
- a couple carrots
- handfull of mushrooms
sautee together
- 1 beer
I cook it until almost all the beer has evaperated and it is in a thickish sauce. The rabbit falls apart and it is super delish!
-1 bunny chopped into about 10 pieces and thrown into a big pot
-2 tbsp butter
- 1 shot of whisky
- an onion
- a couple carrots
- handfull of mushrooms
sautee together
- 1 beer
I cook it until almost all the beer has evaperated and it is in a thickish sauce. The rabbit falls apart and it is super delish!
I guess we'll go vegetarian if the SHTF in the future as we are unable to kill anything.
You'll be suprised what you will be able to do when you get hungry enough. People who say they would never kill an animal to eat have never truly been hungry.
There are vegetarians on this earth that have never tasted meat and would rather starve to death before eating it. I'm not one of them but can't fathom actually killing another living sentient being for food or any other reason. Wait, I could probably do it if it were attacking me.
Yes, you and many others would do it because animals cannot speak or cry and beg for their lives.
So I take it you will eat meat till SHTF, as long as someone else does the dirty work and all you have to do is open a nice clean package of what ever "sentient being" is on the menu for tonight.
I am currently vegetarian but would eat meat if SHTF. I hate the cruelty that big industries treat animals with. They should be respected and treated well, they give us life sustaining food. I would not mind butchering a rabbit myself because I would do it quick and right with minimal to no pain. Taking any sort of life shouldn't be a decision with no sort of remorse or thought in my opinion, that's what makes killers.
By no means do I condone animal cruelty when I kill an animal it is done as quickly and painlessly as possible and I agree the way big industry does it is wrong from the genetic engineering to the growth hormones to the big slaughter houses it is shameful.
Good to hear
