STUFFED BUNNY RECIPES

Steps:

• Wash the rabbit with white wine vinegar.
• Soak the rabbit in salt and water for at least one hour.
• Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
• Pat dry the rabbit.
• Season inside and out with salt and pepper.
• Mix the sausage, oatmeal, celery, carrots, mushrooms, apple, egg, sage, rosemary, parsley and onions (optional cranberries) together in a mixing bowl. Stuff inside the cavity of the rabbit.
• Tie closed with cooking twine.
• Place rabbit in a casserole baking dish, surround with excess stuffing inside foil, add well-seasoned beef stock, bay leaf and cook for 1 3/4 hours, or until tender.
• Cut off twine and serve.

Steps:

• Braise the chopped bacon in a dry pan.
• Saute the chopped onions, carrot and garlic in 2 tbsp vegetable oil.
• Add salt, the bacon , rice and pour in the broth over them.
• Boil until the rice absorbs the liquid. Add the raisins .
• Smear the rabbit with a mixture of salt, paprika, black pepper and 1 vegetable oil. Fill it with the stuffing and sew it closed.
• Put it in an oiled oven dish, pour in the wine , add the basil and parsley and cover with foil.
• Bake for 4 hours at 284°F (140 °C). Remove the foil and bake another 15-20 min. at 392°F (200 °C).
• Smear it with the butter.