It has long been believed that rabbit dishes are dietary. And rightly so - rabbit meat belongs to the category of healthy and low-calorie foods. It contains a large number of useful elements and nutrients. The value of this meat is also increased due to the possibility of all-season use of unfrozen rabbit meat. Dishes from a rabbit are indicated for many patients suffering from diseases such as hypertension, allergies, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Rabbit meat lends itself well to culinary processing and is very quickly and easily absorbed by the body, it is shown even to children as a first feeding.
There are many options for recipes from rabbit meat, they are stewed and fried, boiled and baked. One of the useful dishes are rabbit dishes with sour cream. Why with sour cream? Because in the process of stewing rabbit meat with sour cream, it acquires special tenderness and softness. Sour cream is able to soften even stiff beef with proper cooking, let alone rabbit meat. Traditionally, rabbit dishes with sour cream are prepared with the addition of carrots, sweet peppers and spices. Sometimes housewives add apples - they give the meat a slight sourness or sweetness, depending on the variety of apples. At the same time, a certain highlight appears.
But the rabbit dishes in the oven were especially popular . This is not just baked meat - it is a culinary masterpiece. Baked rabbit combines tenderness, unsurpassed aroma and dizzying taste. The most positive moment is that the hostess can cook such a dish, which before that did not even stand at the stove. Baked rabbit will be the decoration of any festive table.
Now a little about how to cook rabbit dishes in the oven.
The first recipe:
It is necessary to take the kidney part of the carcass and hind legs, rinse them well under running water. Then put on a baking sheet, without greasing it with anything, and put in the oven. Bake until fully cooked. Next, the finished meat needs to be cut into thin slices. Cut the boiled potatoes into circles. Now you need to take a pan or a baking sheet with high sides. Grease the bottom with butter. Now we spread the potatoes and the rabbit in this sequence - a layer of potatoes, a layer of meat, and so we alternate. Pour sour cream with spices on top, salt. The pan must be placed in the oven and baked until cooked. Potatoes in this dish can be replaced with beans, buckwheat, rice. Dishes from the rabbit prepared in this way are served on the table in the same pan as they were prepared so that guests can appreciate your efforts and see all the layers (it looks very nice and appetizing).
The second recipe:
You take rabbit meat - it is meat with a bone, and not a filet that is important. Rinse well under running water. Cut into pieces of medium size. To cook this dish you will need a ducklings. You put meat in it and fill it with hot water, it should cover all the meat. We put on the fire. When the water boils and a foam appears, it must be removed until it disappears completely. When all the foam has been removed, add carrots, onions, parsley to the duckweed - everything is cut into small cubes. Do not forget to put a bay leaf and 5 peas of black pepper. You put other spices to your taste - what you and your family love. After all this, you can put the chicken with the rabbit in the oven. The larger the rabbit is sliced, the longer it needs to be stewed. On average, it will take from 30 minutes to an hour. After stewing, the chicken with the finished rabbit should be pulled out of the oven, and the meat should be separated from the broth. The broth will be needed to make the sauce. Tomatoes, mushrooms, sour cream, onions are added to it, which should be brought to a boil on fire. Now put the meat on a plate and top it with the resulting sauce.
These are just two rabbit dishes that you can cook at home for the holiday. In fact, there are a huge number of recipes - each hostess will find exactly her own - unique and unique.