Hi all,
Does anybody have any good slow cook recipes for rabbit or hare? Do you just use legs?
Appreciate any cooking tips but especially anything for the slow cooker!
Cheers.
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Hi all,
Does anybody have any good slow cook recipes for rabbit or hare? Do you just use legs?
Appreciate any cooking tips but especially anything for the slow cooker!
Cheers.
I just use McCormicks mild Indian slow cooker curry mix.
I quarter a couple young rabbits after being hung and chilled a couple days. Soak in milk or salt water for min 24hrs. 48 is best.
Dust in seasoned cornflower and brown off in frypan.
Throw in pot with a sweated off onion and tin of Indian spiced tomatoes and some chopped carrots. Set on low for the day.
Serve on rice when cooked with some steamed greens.
Doesn't last long.
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I bone the whole thing out ,dice it then braise it with a couple of large onions until browned properly.
Throw a few diced veges in the pot & add 1 of those meal bases from the supermarket ,the slow cooker
type are great & seem to tenderize the meat while it cooks.Just follow directions on the pack.
Last 1 I threw in a slow cook chicken & a beef casserole pkt.
Thanks!
I'm completely new to this. Do you hang them and then chill them? How long do you hang them for?
If I got say 10 rabbits or hares, is it best to hang them for a period before processing them? Or should I just process them right away and freeze?
I've heard about the salt water before. How much salt would I add?
Hang them in a cool place or a chiller for at least a couple days.
Milk is best but expensive unless you can raid a vat.
I ensure all meat will be covered and usually add a handful of salt per rabbit.
Rinse thoroughly, pat dry then brown.
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Do I hang them before or after skinning? I'm guessing the process is skin, hang and then soak in salt water?
And for any I wanted to freeze would I skin, hang, cut up and freeze? And then soak them after they thawed and before I cooked?
I won't use milk as it'd be cheaper buying the meat! Haha.
I personally hang all meat with skin on. Especially if in a chiller.
Unless you can keep flys away from them I would do the same in your case.
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Hares - soak overnight in solution of 1 tablespoon saltwater: 1 litre water. Next day rinse, place in fresh tab water and change every 2hrs for 2 changes. Slow cook back wheels in crockpot like lamb shanks (red wine, any current jam, bayleaf with veggies). Back steaks, med rare on BBQ like veni.
Rabbits need half the soaking time. Back steaks can be sliced and cooked in crumbs like chicken nuggets. Kids love em.
Hare legs and rabbit yummy, I just sprinkle garlic pepper, some tuscan add abit of water . Mr Dundee will tell u what he does before hand.
I hang rabbits and hares for a day skin them while they a warm if you have the time but doesn't matter if you leave it for the next day.
Still hang the carcass for a day then we back leg the hares and back strips and bag em for the freezer,rabbits are left whole.
The next secret is marry Mrs Dundee cause she sorts the cooking,but shes taken:D
This is roast rabbit and harelegs
http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...are-legs-3033/
Theres a thread under this section started by Gadgetman if you want to see the pics
http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...iry-legs-5571/
Those links will help you out enjoy cause its bloody tastey;)
There's a pretty mean rabbit pie recipe in a Speights cookbook somewhere; unfortunately I only have a blurry photo of the recipe and I have to squint to read it, but the pie is great.
Basic procedure is slow-cook the rabbit with some veges (onion, celery, carrot, herbs) in water, throw out the veges (keep the stock), take the rabbit meat, mix it with fried bacon and mushrooms, flour+butter+stock from before+lemon juice make a kind of roux sauce, wrapped in pastry in the oven until it's done.
With rabbits I don't normally bother to use brine/milk before the slow cook. I just bung half a dozen rabbits straight in the pot, add in wine, black current (Barkers), a slosh of Tamari (soy) sauce, another slosh of spicy plum sauce, dose of favourite herbs and spices, diced vege if you like it. Leave to soak in that lot over night, then add the heat and cook about 16 hours. Tip the liquid into another container, strip the rabbits, divide meat into meal lots in 2l ice cream tubs and cover in liquid for freezing.
The important bit! Put remaining liquid in other 2l ice cream tubs for stock and freeze, I turn it into vege soup, the type you grab a slice of for a winters lunch.
Thanks very much all for your recipes. Much appreciated.
Gadgetman - when you say cover in liquid for freezing do you mean the liquid from the slow cook?
I have the rabbit pie recipe out of the speights cookbook if anyone wants it?
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add a few HOPS!;)
My first attempt at hare shanks are in the slow cooker now marinading overnight. Bay leaves, anisead, garlic, ginger, soy sauce and a bit of coriander.
Will cook slowly for about 12hrs and chuck some veges in with about 6-8 to go.
Ended up with 3 legs off 2 hares as one got half blown apart by some poor shooting :(. Gutted that I didn't get the back straps, forgot about those.
Back steaks are better flash fried in my experience. Will be tender in slow cooker all the same but dry.
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Tried cooking hare once. They go to the dogs now, Rabbits however are a different story altogether, yum, yum yum
When I shoot em they usually are expired, skinned and minced in the same second.
I always tend to aim at the big bit rather than the head.
Cant seem to remember to aim at the thing below the ears.
You would have though the last hare I got had been ridden round and round the paddock while being stabbed with a knife so blunt you could have ridden down the blade with a leg each side and been unscathed. Tough was a gross understatement
The hare turned out well. Very tasty! Cooked for about 13hrs on low in the slow cooker with the various spices, etc. Added spuds, carrots and an onion with about 6hrs to go.
Feels good to have successfully hunted, butchered and eaten something myself. Will have to get a load more now!
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Good on ya Matty:thumbsup:
Might have to retire the .223 tonight.
Dogs had fast food tonight. Pointed a hare then pinned it on command we were out walking so I skinned it and fed it to em on the spot.
I am a bit naughty cause I encourage it,even though they are bird dogs.
Good on ya Mate.. Little tip for ya is to brown the legs off prior to adding to the slow cooker, degalze the pan with some white wine for bunnies, red for hares and add to the cooker.. Also sweating your mire poix (rough chooped vegetables, onion cleery garlic carrot ect) Will give the ya dish a real boost..
Sorry about the jargen. it's my old chef self coming out to play.
Yay, found an interesting hare recipe, but I will do a kitchen test first and then if it is any good, I will post it here...stand by:)
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Ha, be sure to ask the butcher !
Hi Guys,
With luck we will be going out for rabbits next week, first time so the kids are reading up on how to skin them and how to cook them... :)
We were meant to go today, but the forecast was less than average.
Anyway, early in this thread there is mention of soaking them in salt water or milk for ~24hours or so, what is the reason for this?
Cheers grant
Helps make them less gamey and more tender.
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if cooked in slow cooker they will be tender. I like game meat with the gamey flavour.;)