How do you cook your bunnies?

[SilverZuk]

Buffalo Rabbit Wings

Get a bottle of Frank's Red Hot sauce and follow the instructions on the back of the bottle for chicken wings.

I soak in milk, dredge in flour, then deep fry.
Take a bottle of Frank's Red hot, and mix with 1 stick of melted butter.
After about 10 minutes in the deep fry, pull the pieces out and dip into the hot sauce.
Shake off excess, and place on a paper towel until it cools.
Then enjoy.

[Gunslinger Beagles]

silverzuk that sounds awesome. sounds like that will make your tonuge knock your brains out. im diffently going to try that

[Glockowner]

Bunny Blaster- I remove the silver skin when cleaning the rabbit.

Here is how I prepared the last rabbit I ate.

1 Rabbit- legs off, and back sectioned into three pieces -Salt and Pepper on all sides
2 strips of thick cut bacon cut into small strips
1 large onion
3 carrots
3 stalks of celery
3 medium red potatoes.
1 clove diced garlic
3 sprigs of fresh Thyme
1/2 bottle of dry red wine (I use cabernet sauvignon)
2tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour

Start out by Browning the rabbit pieces in a dutch oven or other heavy pan (I use Bacon Grease). Once they rabbit pieces are browned on both sides take them out and set them aside.

Then put the bacon pieces in along with the onion, carrots, and celery that have been cut into a large dice. Add about a teaspoon of salt, and a few grinds of black pepper. Let everything caramelize for a couple minutes. Once the vegetables start to take on a bit of color add the garlic and thyme and let cook another 30 seconds. Before the garlic burns add the red wine to deglaze, use a wire wisk to get all the brown bits off of the bottom of the pan.

Once you have all the tasty brown bits wisked off of the bottom, then add the browned rabbit pieces back to the pot. Add enough water to just cover the top of the meat, add another teaspoon or so of salt. Let this simmer for an hour and a half.

After an hour and a half add the potatoes and simmer for another hour. Then remove the rabbit pieces and take the meat off of the bones.

In a small sauce pan combine the flour and butter and cook on low until it gets a nice golden brown color and has a nutty aroma. Then add the flour and butter mixture to the pot and stir. Add the rabbit meat back to the pot. Taste it to ensure there is enough salt and pepper, and as soon as your rabbit stew is thickened your ready to eat!



Bon Apetite!

[Fleetwood]

That isw almost identical to the way I prepare ost of the rabbits I shoot Gockowner. It is the way to go! Darn good eating is all I can say.

[Fleetwood]

Oh and welcome to the board! I like your tastes in rabbits and handguns.

[BIG ORDEAL]

This my kind of reading!I just fried some cottontails from Saturdays hunt with some chicken breader that I tweeked a little with paprika and onion powder.I dont know how anyone could not like fried rabbit.My son who is 11 said it was better than any chicken he ever had.Thanks for the recipes fellas,I have to get to huntin so I can try em all.

[BIG ORDEAL]

Buffalo Rabbit Wings

Get a bottle of Frank's Red Hot sauce and follow the instructions on the back of the bottle for chicken wings.

I soak in milk, dredge in flour, then deep fry.
Take a bottle of Frank's Red hot, and mix with 1 stick of melted butter.
After about 10 minutes in the deep fry, pull the pieces out and dip into the hot sauce.
Shake off excess, and place on a paper towel until it cools.
Then enjoy.

I will try this one soon because I love buffalo wings with ranch dressing to dip,so I know this has got to be good.Thanks

[Jakeboy]

Beagleblues do you have a recipe for the gumbo?? That sounds delicious... Thanks Jake

[BEAGLEBLUES]

Beagleblues do you have a recipe for the gumbo?? That sounds delicious... Thanks Jake

this is the best that I can come up with. I have a hard time with recipe's. I tend to just start adding and then tasting until I like what I have.

here goes.

Start with ingredients

1 or 2 rabbits deboned and cut into bite size pieces.
1 large onion
1 bell pepper
2 stalks of celery
1 cup vegitable oil
1 cup flour
1 bag of frozen okra
1 can of crushed tomatoes
1pound of a hard sausage(what ever you like)
salt
pepper
hot sauce (for taste)
1 cup uncooked rice
1 box of chicken broth

Start making the roux(spelling check). take the oil and heat it in a heavy skillet and then start adding the flour. stirring the whole time. after all the flour is added, let it start to brown. cook until it turns a chocolate color. remove from heat and let cool.

next brown rabbit pieces in a dutch oven or heavy stock pot. remove from pot and add the onions, peppers, and celery. sweat the veggies and then deglaze with chicken stock. add the rest of the broth, and add more water to fill pot to about half. add the sausage, rabbit, okra, salt and pepper, and hot sauce to taste, and can of tomatoes.
bring to a boil, and start to add the roux. this is a slow process. add alittle at a time stirring constantly. if you add all at once, you get runny dumplings (I learned this by experience).
reduce the heat and let cook on low for a while,(I know that is exact but I don't know how long I cooked it)

I work nights, so here is where I added it to a crock pot on low for about 6 hours, and then went to bed.
after I woke up, I took the rice, and added it and then turned it up on high for about an hour before we ate.

if this thickens to much, you might have to add some more chicken stock to thin it out. I like it thick, but still like a soup.

hope this helps.
Jamey

If i make some more, I will take a picture

[BEAGLEBLUES]

after reading my previous post, I forgot to say that i add garlic, and basil, and oregino. just alittle of each when I am sweating the veggies.

sorry for forgetting
Jamey

[BEAGLEBLUES]

after reading my previous post, I forgot to say that i add garlic, and basil, and oregino. just alittle of each when I am sweating the veggies.

sorry for forgetting
Jamey

[KesslerBeagles]

I quarter the bunnies put in slow cooker add potatoes, mushroom soup, 1 fine diced onion, 1 clove of fresh garlic, cook on med for 8 hrs
when done, I mash the potatoes and use the mushroom soup as gravy

I put mine in at about 10am and eat around 6 pm

How many will this "feed"? And how much of everything that you just said will it take to feed 6? "Around about"

[RunninHard]

I quarter the bunnies put in slow cooker add potatoes, mushroom soup, 1 fine diced onion, 1 clove of fresh garlic, cook on med for 8 hrs
when done, I mash the potatoes and use the mushroom soup as gravy

I put mine in at about 10am and eat around 6 pm

How many will this "feed"? And how much of everything that you just said will it take to feed 6? "Around about"

1 quartered bunnie per person
for 6 I would quarter 6 bunnies, use 3-4 cans of mushroom soup, then fill the rest of the crock with potatoes, keep to 1 onion and 1 glove of fresh garlic

[Rabbit Fever]

I call this one Rabbit Mcnuggets

Debone rabbit or hare into 2x2 " pieces then let dry on pappertowel.
In a big fry pan put in oliveoil and heat up while oil is heating eggwash the rabbit pieces then coat them with a nice spicy breadcrumbs. Fry the rabbitt pieces so they are brown on both sides. Do not cook them all the way though. Put them on a cookie sheet and slide them into the oven for about 20 minutes at 400 degrees to cook the rest of the way. They will be so tender you wont believe it. I like them straight up but dipping hot sauce is good also. You can get pretty creative when we use to shoot 250 Hare a season. I also like to debone and grind up for hambuger, awesome