Rabbit recipes

[butters]

Your mama was from the UK, eh?

heh - mum made a fab rabbit stew - rabbit was my favourite meat! she didn't mash it, though... long, slow cooking with the kind of veggies bunnies love to eat, especially carrots & leeks- young onions, taters, can't remember what else she put in there but it was so rich and succulent and flavourful! brilliant in the winter time. maybe it was better rabbit as my grandad raised meat rabbits - big fuckers, they were.

I didn't read the rest of the thread so if anyone has already given any of these tips, I'm sorry.

Rabbit is so pointless it's all dark meat and dry and not worth having.

But if that's all you got, treat it like really, really shitty meat. Know that you'll have to hide the taste and texture, because it is, universally, considered shitty.

That doesn't mean it's inedible or that you can't eventually get something you'll enjoy. Shitty meat can be good if you cook it properly.

A big part of why rabbit tastes awful is the texture. It's all muscle and no marbeling, very few lipids, and lipids are the channels through which flavor flows. So if you want to get flavor into it, you have to use long, slow methods.

So, for example, you can do an overnight marinade, and then do a roast and that winds up pretty good. That's what I usually do. It comes out kinds shreadable, which is what you want. So get yourself some salt, pepper, sugar (or honey but you need a decent amount, I don't measure shit but I'm gonna say like... maybe 1/4 a cup? Maybe a little less? You can also use a can of pop, like dark pop. Pepsi equivalent. Wal-mart brand great value pop. Just fuckin dump it in there. It's rabbit it needs to be in liquid. Don't give a single shit. Not giving a fuck is important. You've already decided to feed your family rabbit you can't get more trailer trash.) Get like some garlic, paprika that brown shit I can never remember the name of that is fermented. Not soy sauce the other one. I wanna say Shire, like Lord of the Rings but I know that's wrong. Then get like a stick of butter, and if you used sugar instead of pop get like a cup of water. Mix all that shit together in a freezer bag- well, melt the butter first then do that. now rip chunks of the rabbit off with your bare hands like a MAN or I mean you can probably also cut it with a knife but like whatever just get it to fit in the bag.

Not put that in the fridge and tell everyone not to touch it because you're going to cook it tomorrow.

The next day, cut up a bunch of taters and carrots and maybe another onion or whatever you like in your roasts, and put them in the bottom of a pan, then dump the whole ass bag on top of them. I mean like open it. But pour it out over the veggies.

Then wrap some tin foil over that bitch and shove it in the oven at like 350 or 400 until it smells like food, so like an hour and a half or two hours.

Like literally just chuck a bunch of shit in a bag and then just chuck another bunch of shit in a pan. It's super easy and takes like ten minutes.

Oh shit also you should have sprayed the pan. Now it's gonna stick. Shoulda sprayed it with cooking oil. That ones on me.

I've seen people do this in a slow cooker so you could also do that but I don't know how long to leave it on for. I guess just all day because that's how those things are. I mean look at it and if it looks raw don't eat it. It's the same process, all the same steps just dump it in a slow cooker instead of a roasting pan when you get to that step.

Also make biscuits because you'll want biscuits.

worcestershire sauce?

and i LIKE the taste of rabbit, muchly. cooked long enough and right it's tender as anything.

 

[CandiCame]

My experience is most of that "gamey taste" comes from what they eat and uncleanly field dressing technique. I hunt deer late in the season when snow is on the ground. I use rubber gloves when gutting the animal and clean the cavity out with clean snow. I make sure the cavity isn't contaminated with hair or dirt. If I'm close to town I take it to a commercial processor for aging and packaging. The key is keeping the meat cooled down and clean to inhibit the growth pf bacteria.

"Gamey" doesn't mean "nasty ass". Gamey is the opposite of marbled. It means that the meat is all muscle with no fat. If you're leaving fucking hair and shit in your meat when you package it then you're just gross. You don't like... field dress it and that's it. You take it home and cut it into steaks and shit and wash them off before you package them.

Like this image has grossed me out. I mean yeah pack it and cut the tenderloins out and shit but then go the fuck home and clean your meat.

I know dudes who do this. Because they wanna stay on the trip or whatever but that shit freaks me out. If you're going hunting and you're not on your own land near your house you need a cabin with a drain area, a pressure hose, a workstation and a deep freeze. You just do. If your food is rotten it's not gamey it's just gross.

The goal is not to rough it, like some people think it is, it's to get some fucking food without having to depend on factory farming. Use modern techniques.

Snow is actually, and I know you know this so I'm not talking to you but more to the group as a whole, debatable about packing with. I'm one of the people who uses ice- because of that. Because ice has to pass health and safety standards and snow is literally a bunch of crystals you found on the ground that has god knows what in it.

I also don't wear gloves I just wash my hands a lot. If I wear gloves it fucks me up when I'm cutting the steaks. And it's not actually cleaner. The point of the gloves is to protect your hands from the mess, not to protect the mess from your hands. I've got a place set up on the back porch where I'll work through it with the big ass laundry sink.

IDK man, my actual point was just that that wasn't what people mean by gamey and that the idea that it is makes my stomach turn because that's how you get sick. The rest is just a bullshit tangent because I've got the midday sleepies and need some five hour energy or coffee or something.

 

[CandiCame]

heh - mum made a fab rabbit stew - rabbit was my favourite meat! she didn't mash it, though... long, slow cooking with the kind of veggies bunnies love to eat, especially carrots & leeks- young onions, taters, can't remember what else she put in there but it was so rich and succulent and flavourful! brilliant in the winter time. maybe it was better rabbit as my grandad raised meat rabbits - big fuckers, they were.

worcestershire sauce?

and i LIKE the taste of rabbit, muchly. cooked long enough and right it's tender as anything.

Yes, thank you.

Also, yeah if you have meat rabbits they have lipids. There's a difference. I've never eaten a livestock rabbit, and I don't know anyone who has, because they're just not common around here, but there is a big difference in the taste. You don't need to soak it if that's where you got it, I just straight up forgot those existed.

I'm talking about a rabbit that one would hunt or find in the garden or whatever. Not a fatass sitting in a hutch waiting to die. I don't know how to cook that.

 

[thør]

heh - mum made a fab rabbit stew - rabbit was my favourite meat! she didn't mash it, though... long, slow cooking with the kind of veggies bunnies love to eat, especially carrots & leeks- young onions, taters, can't remember what else she put in there but it was so rich and succulent and flavourful! brilliant in the winter time. maybe it was better rabbit as my grandad raised meat rabbits - big fuckers, they were.

worcestershire sauce?

and i LIKE the taste of rabbit, muchly. cooked long enough and right it's tender as anything.

She prolly didn't boil it first.

I've never met a proper stew that wasn't tasty, be it rabbit, moose, bear, beef, pork, buffalo, caribou, dahl sheep, ptarmigan, etc.

Like the dumbasses who boil pork ribs before grilling. Those end up being flavorless, which is absolutely fine if you like sauce flavored soggy cardboard.

 

[CandiCame]

She prolly didn't boil it first.

I've never met a proper stew that wasn't tasty, be it rabbit, moose, bear, beef, pork, buffalo, caribou, dahl sheep, ptarmigan, etc.

Like the dumbasses who boil pork ribs before grilling. Those end up being flavorless, which is absolutely fine if you like sauce flavored soggy cardboard.

And I had no idea this was a thing. I don't want this information.

Thanks. I hate it.

 

[HisArpy]

i LIKE the taste of rabbit, muchly. cooked long enough and right it's tender as anything.

I raised New Zealand Whites for meat as a kid. We ate a lot of rabbit over the winter months.

Leftover rabbit makes a fantastic "rabbit salad sandwich". Think chicken salad merged with a Waldorf salad.

 

[HisArpy]

I've never met a proper stew that wasn't tasty, be it rabbit, moose, bear, beef, pork, buffalo, caribou, dahl sheep, ptarmigan, etc.

Apparently you never ate my mom's cooking.

From when I was waaay young, mom was banished from the kitchen during meal prep. Totally not kidding.

 

[butters]

Yes, thank you.

Also, yeah if you have meat rabbits they have lipids. There's a difference. I've never eaten a livestock rabbit, and I don't know anyone who has, because they're just not common around here, but there is a big difference in the taste. You don't need to soak it if that's where you got it, I just straight up forgot those existed.

I'm talking about a rabbit that one would hunt or find in the garden or whatever. Not a fatass sitting in a hutch waiting to die. I don't know how to cook that.

i cooked one last year that H shot in the garden. after i got over feeling bad for it, i skinned and cleaned it, and did the roasting thing. the meat was a whole lot tougher than i was used to, and so i went on to cook it again, with added moisture - had pan-fried it first as suggested on the net. i enjoyed it when it had been given the time to tenderise.

 

[butters]

I raised New Zealand Whites for meat as a kid. We ate a lot of rabbit over the winter months.

Leftover rabbit makes a fantastic "rabbit salad sandwich". Think chicken salad merged with a Waldorf salad.

think he mainly bred flemish giants - i remember very big white rabbits, anyway

i think rabbit tastes way better than chicken. it has such an umami flavour.

 

[butters]

She prolly didn't boil it first.

I've never met a proper stew that wasn't tasty, be it rabbit, moose, bear, beef, pork, buffalo, caribou, dahl sheep, ptarmigan, etc.

Like the dumbasses who boil pork ribs before grilling. Those end up being flavorless, which is absolutely fine if you like sauce flavored soggy cardboard.

i certainly don't remember her doing that AT ALL!

 

[neci]

squirrels are only 8 minutes in the instant pot, so for rabbit i would guess 10.

 

[dolf]

I fucking love rabbit! And what's wrong with game tasting like game? Everyone is far too used to the bland modern farming breeds, and forgets that meat has flavours and textures. It's sad.

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

squirrels are only 8 minutes in the instant pot, so for rabbit i would guess 10.

Squirrel is tougher than rabbit.

 

[neci]

Squirrel is tougher than rabbit.

rabbits weigh more.

 

[pantalaimonlyra]

I was considering using the instant pot. I want it to be very tender. I saw a ragout recipe that I might try, but so many ideas and recipes to check out here too. I'll get pictures when I make it.

It's a hunted rabbit, not farmed; very well cleaned/dressed and I'm not worried about it tasting bad, just don't want to mess it up.

 

[CandiCame]

i cooked one last year that H shot in the garden. after i got over feeling bad for it, i skinned and cleaned it, and did the roasting thing. the meat was a whole lot tougher than i was used to, and so i went on to cook it again, with added moisture - had pan-fried it first as suggested on the net. i enjoyed it when it had been given the time to tenderise.

My cousin's wife feels bad for animals in the most shallow way possible and this post reminded me of her. He more or less quit going hunting with me, which is a shame, because his daughter, unlike mine, has the ability to shut the fuck up, and I was really hoping she'd be a good influence.

But his wife prefers to buy factory farm meat like it's more ethical- when literally the point of hunting is to protest how UNethical that system is. I reckon they got in a big fight about it.

But I mean- of course you feel bad when you kill something but it's way more ethical to put something down clean that has gotten to live than it is to torture something its whole life. If I had a choice between being born in jail, on death row, separated my parents and raised in a torturous hellscape or getting to live my life and eventually getting shot for thievery and trespassing it would be a no-brainer decision for me.

 

[Super-Surprise]

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[jaF0]

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[Saint Peter]

Did you instant pot the fucker or what?

 

[pantalaimonlyra]

I had to freeze it for now. I'm not home until Monday to cook the little guy. But I'm leaning towards the pressure cooker for the tenderness. Did that pork meat so well, why mess with success?

 

[Saint Peter]

I had to freeze it for now. I'm not home until Monday to cook the little guy. But I'm leaning towards the pressure cooker for the tenderness. Did that pork meat so well, why mess with success?

I am with you on using the instant pot. I want to try that with pheasant.

Keep us postered!

 

[butters]

My cousin's wife feels bad for animals in the most shallow way possible and this post reminded me of her. He more or less quit going hunting with me, which is a shame, because his daughter, unlike mine, has the ability to shut the fuck up, and I was really hoping she'd be a good influence.

But his wife prefers to buy factory farm meat like it's more ethical- when literally the point of hunting is to protest how UNethical that system is. I reckon they got in a big fight about it.

But I mean- of course you feel bad when you kill something but it's way more ethical to put something down clean that has gotten to live than it is to torture something its whole life. If I had a choice between being born in jail, on death row, separated my parents and raised in a torturous hellscape or getting to live my life and eventually getting shot for thievery and trespassing it would be a no-brainer decision for me.

i felt bad for it because it was only enjoying all the yummy free veggies we were growing - like it was our fault, laying out the buffet for it and luring him in. did he deserve a bullet in the brain?

i also don't like taking the head off... yes, i'm squeamish, but managed it. had to cover it first so i couldn't see its eyes once that was off, the rest was no problem, as i can then see it as meat and not 'bunny'.

 

[Dribble]

Crock pot with potatoes. Throw the potatoes away...they absorb the fat...and hence the gamey flavor

 

[butters]

https://eatsiptrip.10best.com/2018/01/09/what-it-really-means-when-your-meat-tastes-gamey/

why are people so scared of texture and flavour in their meat? i don't want all my meat to be so cooked as to have no resistance whatsover to my teeth. i WANT to be able to bite into something, not just have it melt on my tongue. meat SHOULD have some texture, dammit! and i don't want all my meat to taste so goddamned bland that the only way it can be rescued is to pile a ton of spices and other additives into the cooking process. gamey is GOOD. as i mentioned before, the umaminess is, for me, crazy goodness!

 

[butters]

I had to freeze it for now. I'm not home until Monday to cook the little guy. But I'm leaning towards the pressure cooker for the tenderness. Did that pork meat so well, why mess with success?

https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/old_fashioned_rabbit_74225

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1660637/slowcooked-rabbit-stew

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/rabbit_stew_with_mushrooms/