Rabbit?

[PerchPounder]

This may be an odd request but we're in a rabbit tournament this saturday and I am wondering if anyone has an easy and tasty way to make a cottontail.

[prov1900]

Chislic style is good. In college, we would fillet it, chunk it, coat in Shake and Bake, then fry in oil. Very quick, very good. Haven't had it since, but now that I have refined my cooking somewhat, there are probably better mixes out there than Shake and Bake. Any fried chicken coating would work. Actually, anyway that you can make chicken, you can make rabbit. Great piece of meat, can't really mess it up. I always preferred it to pheasant, both of which we lived on in college...besides Keystone Light and Ramen noodles.

[Tippman]

I've posted this one before:

Sherried Rabbit

Here is one of my favorites:

2 rabbits cut up

2 quarts water

1 tbsp salt

2 tsp vinegar

1/3 c. flour

pepper

2 tbsp butter

2 tbsp vegtable oil

8 oz frest mushrooms.

Sherry Sauce:

1 c. chicken stock

1/4 c. sherry cooking wine

1/2 tbsp worcestershire sauce

seasoned salt

couple drops hot sauce

Combine rabbit, water, salt and vinegar in bowl and let stand for 2 hrs.

Heat oven to 350. Coat rabbit pieces with flour, salt, and pepper mixture. Melt butter in oil in a large skillet and brown rabbit. Transfer to a 3 qt casserole dish and add the mushrooms. Combine with the sherry sauce ingredients. Cover and bake until tender, about 1.5 hrs.

If you want something more simple, just cover the rabbit in flour and seasoning and fry up.

[Phred52]

How about a Breaded Rabbit Recipe?? You'll probably wanna recopy this one. Here goes. 1 small rabbit, 1/8 tsp oregano, salt & pepper to taste, 2 Tblsp. whole milk, 1 egg, 1/4 cup AP flour and 1/4 cup dried bread crumbs. Sprinkle the rabbit with the oregano, salt & pepper. Combine the milk and egg, beat. Dip the meat pieces in the milk/egg mixture, then dredge them in flour and then bread crumbs. Brown them in 1/2" of shortening @ 375*F. Lower the heat and cook for 25 minutes or so, until tender.

[LABS4ME]

We always oven fried them. Actually my Dad did... I need to try to do it myself. If I remember correctly: Dredge in seasoned flour, brown in fry pan with shortening, you do not need to wiorry about 'cooking' them on this step... just brown the breading. Place a tblsp or two of oil in bottom of roasting pan, lay rabbit pieces in roasting pan and re-season rabbit, cover rabbit pieces with sliced onions. Place cover on roaster and 'oven fry' for 60-90 minutes at 350. Meat should be at least 180 degrees and tender. We'd cook it till it was pulling down from the end of the bone.

Moist and delicious

Good Luck!

Ken

[Nate McVey]

I've either subsituted rabbit in a chicken pot pie recipe or done it fondu style. Fondu is good for the "I hate rabbit people" because it is deep fried (basically) and you can dip it in honey mustard, ranch, etc. The Rabbit pot pie is good, because it's an all-in-one meal.

Labs, what do you think about subbing it for the pheasant in your dumpling recipe?

[tacklejunkie]

Oh man, you all are making me slobber. i grew up eating rabbit. Snaring, trapping, shooting. i gots the rabbits. hausenpfeffer, rabbit stew, rabbit bake. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

[Hammer Handle]

My dad always tells the story of when a friend visited him in the county form the cities.

He was grilling jackrabbit burgers when his friend surprised him.

As his friend was eating the seasoned burger, he said "Mmmmm, nothing better than farm fresh beef!"

[doughnut03]

I have never eaten rabbit but I assure you one thing, I will have rabbit before the end of 2008 thanks to you guys haha... that all sounds delectible

[LABS4ME]

Shiner, I imagine rabbit would be excellent in that stew. One thing about rabbit... it is rarely tough and chewy. Unlike some old roosters!

Good Luck!

Ken

[kingkobbla]

Are there only certain months when you can eat rabbits or is that a myth??

[LABS4ME]

You can eat rabbits during any month with at least 28 days in it.

Good Luck!

Ken

[Hammer Handle]

I found that the later you shoot them in the season, the better they taste....