Rabbit meat is considered dietary, low-calorie and easily digestible meat, which contains a large amount of vitamins and nutrients. Delicious, delicate and truly original is a rabbit cooked in the oven.
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In order to cook a rabbit in the oven, it is necessary to properly prepare the meat and marinate it. Soak the rabbit initially in water or marinade. As a rule, they bake rabbit meat, cut into portioned pieces.
Oven baked rabbit in kefir
To prepare this delicious dish, you will need the following ingredients:
- rabbit (1-1.5 kg) - 1 pc.;
- onions - 3 pcs.;
- 100 ml of table mustard;
- 200 ml of kefir;
- 2-3 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- seasoning for meat (to taste);
- salt (to taste);
- greens (parsley, dill, coriander, etc.) - to taste.
Rinse the meat and cut it into portions, then let it dry naturally on a paper towel. Then put the meat in a bowl, sprinkle with seasonings for meat.
Peel and chop onions in half rings, then transfer to a bowl of meat and pour kefir. Now you need to salt the rabbit, add black ground pepper, mix well and leave to marinate for 12 hours under a closed lid. Put the meat in the refrigerator.
After the specified time, remove the meat, pour it with spicy mustard and leave it for 15 minutes at room temperature. In a baking dish greased with vegetable oil, put the rabbit meat and send it to the oven, heated to 180 ° C. After 15 minutes, remove the form, sprinkle the rabbit meat with chopped herbs and simmer in the oven until tender. Serve this dish hot.
Oven-baked rabbit in a pot
You can also cook rabbit in a pot. For this dish you will need the following ingredients:
- 1 kg of rabbit (filet);
- 200 g of bacon;
- onions - 3 pcs.;
- 4 tbsp. l flour;
- 150 ml of red wine;
- brown bread - 3-4 slices;
- salt, ground pepper (to taste).
Finely chop the pork fat. Peel and chop the onion, crumble the black stale bread.
Rinse rabbit meat, then cut into portions, salt and add ground pepper, and then roll in flour.
Put meat in a pot, then pork fat, onion and brown bread, fill with dry red wine. Put the pots in the oven and simmer at 200 ° C for about 60-70 minutes. Serve the rabbit baked in the oven to the table in a pot.