Rabbit meat is rarely found on the Russian table. Nevertheless, it should be noted that it has high taste and is quite simple to prepare. a rabbit in a tomato will be able to decorate both a festive and everyday table.
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You will need
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- rabbit carcass;
- 1 onion;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- 2-3 tomatoes;
- celery stalk;
- 2 small zucchini;
- a bunch of rosemary;
- Bay leaf;
- 1.5 liters of tomato juice;
- vegetable oil;
- salt.
Instruction manual
1
Prepare the rabbit carcass. Rinse and gut thoroughly if necessary. If the meat is frozen, leave it for 2-3 hours on a plate, covered with a film, at room temperature. Separate the legs from the carcass, the body itself also cut in half. You can cook rabbit meat on the bone or cut it and divide it into small pieces.
2
Take care of vegetables. Peel and finely chop the onion, fry in a pan with heated oil for 5 minutes. Then chop the garlic and the celery stalk, cut the carrots into strips. Add all these vegetables to the onion. Cook another 5 minutes. Scald tomatoes, peel them, chop and fold into a vegetable mixture. Cook for about 5-7 minutes until the carrots are ready. Salt to taste, and then transfer the resulting mass into a deep pan, preferably with a non-stick coating and pre-oiled with vegetable oil.
3
Fry the rabbit pieces in vegetable oil for 4-5 minutes. Then put it in the vegetables. Pour the mixture with tomato juice so that it covers all the meat and vegetables. Add a few sprigs of rosemary and bay leaf for flavor, salt. Simmer the mixture over medium heat for 15 minutes.
4
Peel and cut the zucchini. Pour into a mixture of rabbit with vegetables. Cook another 20-30 minutes. The rabbit meat should become soft, and the sauce should thicken somewhat. Serve the dish with a side dish. They can serve as fried or boiled potatoes, as well as rice.
5
Change the recipe depending on your tastes and the availability of certain vegetables. Instead of zucchini, you can take eggplant, but it is advisable to lightly fry them first. Also in such a roast, bell pepper will be a good additional component. The composition of vegetables can be reduced as much as possible, leaving only onions, garlic and tomatoes.