Rabbit Stew

[alias_sqbr]

I went exploring around Bassendean and found a butcher who sells rabbit, which I'd never eaten before let along cooked with. After looking up some recipes I created a quite tasty Sophie-friendly stew. As always a lot of my choices are dictated by diet so I don't know how helpful this is for people with different/no issues. Still, it was pretty nice :) Rabbit really does taste rather like chicken, but with a more solidity to it. Lots of teeny hard bones to pick out.


Ingredients:
1 rabbit cut into pieces (get the butcher to do this!)
cinnamon, tumeric, dried coriander, salt and pepper

1 onion, chopped
(a few cloves of chopped garlic- I didn't have this but I would recommend it)
a large handful of chopped celery
2cm of ginger, chopped
margarine/butter

1/2 cup chicken stock
1/2 cup rice milk
1 cup almond milk
1 tablespoon apricot jam
1 tablespoon miso paste
1 carrot, chopped
About 6 baby potatoes, chopped
thyme
oregano
2 bay leaves

Frozen vegetables (about 1 1/2 cups?)

Method:
Check rabbit for any remaining internal organs (liver, kidneys etc) and reserve for other recipes or throw away.

Coat rabbit pieces in spices and pan fry until browned. Remove rabbit, add onion, garlic, celery and ginger to the pan with a little margarine/butter and brown. Mix the jam and miso paste with some of the liquid, then put everything except the frozen vegetables in a slow cooker. Season with lots of salt.
Cook on high for about 4 hours. Add extra water if needed (I over did this and it went watery)
Add frozen vegetables. Cook for another hour. Serve with bread.

Comments

[silverai]

Was that the butcher near the train station, or the butcher near the BWS halfway down Old Perth Rd?

[kerravonsen]

I now have the White Rabbit's song going through my head...
"I don't know what to do, I'm in a rabbit stew"...

[alias_sqbr]

The one halfway down the road. The other one has a large step, for a start, which is a dealbreaker in a wheelchair.

[alias_sqbr]

I tried not to think about adorable fluffy bunnies while cooking.

[silverai]

I only discovered there was a butcher up near the station in the last few weeks. Suprised the heck out of me, must have only appeared in the last few-several years, cos I'm sure it didn't used to be there before. I've been to the halfway one a few times over the years, they're pretty good. We tend to source our spit meat for parties from there too.