How to cook a rabbit for the New Year

The New Year's table will be more interesting if, instead of traditional chicken or pork, cook a rabbit with oranges. This is not only a tasty, but also a healthy dietary product. With this dish you can not worry about your figure. And the whole charm of the taste of rabbit meat will help convey the right ingredients. Orange will give a delicate aroma, sweetness and juiciness to meat. Parsnip and spices add piquancy. How to cook a rabbit tasty and fast for the New Year?

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You will need

- 1.5 kg rabbit meat
- one large onion
- 250 g carrots
- 50g bacon
- 400g canned tomatoes
- 500g potatoes
- 100g parsnip
- big orange
- greens
- spice
- salt. Dishes: ducklings
- steel pan or stewpan.

Instruction manual

Choose a good rabbit carcass to have enough meat. After all, I do not want to treat guests with bones with a small meat layer. Rabbit meat differs from any other meat in its tenderness and ease of preparation.

Start cooking this dish not with traditional meat roasting. This time, first of all, take the bacon, previously chopped into small cubes, and put it in a deep saucepan with non-stick coating or a pan with a thick bottom. Stew the bacon under the lid for several minutes in your own juice.

Cut the onions into cubes, the carrots in strips, and the parsnips in circles, add to the bacon. Continue to simmer for several minutes until softened. A variety of sliced ingredients of this dish will not only maximize the taste, but also give a beautiful look to a complex dish.

Cut the rabbit meat into cubes and lay on top of the vegetables. Add salt and spices to taste. Put tomatoes on top of the meat, draining all the juice and herbs from them in advance, as much as possible. Shred the parsley finely enough. The final layer in this dish is potato. Cut it into cubes and evenly sprinkle meat with tomatoes.

Simmer for 20 minutes under a closed lid over medium heat or at full power in the microwave. After the time has passed, check the meat for readiness.

Grate the orange and pour boiling water over it. This mixture should stand for a while. If the meat is ready, drain the water from the orange. Add greens and lay out the orange mass. Continue to simmer for another five minutes with the lid closed. In order to diversify the dish, you can add olives, olives or plums with oranges. This will give the dish a more sophisticated look and taste.

note

Traditional spices - ginger, garlic, dill, pepper, bay leaf not only block the smell of a rabbit, but also make the dish very saturated.

You need to choose a rabbit for cooking a young one, preferably up to a year.

Extinguishing utensils cannot be less than the amount of meat that needs to be fried. You need to use deep pots, pans, so that the meat is juicy and well cooked.

A rabbit should not be cooked for more than an hour, because the taste of a long processing will only get worse. This time does not take into account the soaking time.

Useful advice

To remove the rabbit smell from meat and soften its rigidity, the carcass should be soaked or marinated before cooking. To do this, you can use ordinary water. For example, you can soak rabbit meat in water with the addition of wine or apple vinegar for a couple of hours. The wine marinade will make the meat very aromatic, and the classic marinade made from olive oil and garlic will allow you to play with taste contrasts.

Spices should be used when pickling or directly in the process of frying or stewing meat.