Dish of Rabbit with Pasta
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Rabbit with Pasta


Italy

Serves:
Effort:
Sched:
DoAhead:  
4 main
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2 hr
Yes
This recipe shows the Italian way of cooking a meat course and sauce for pasta together. In Italy, the pasta course would be served before the meat, but this is California.




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42oz
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Rabbit whole
Onion white
Garlic
Tomatoes diced  
Mushrooms
Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper
Nutmeg grated
Cloves
Red Pepper (1)

This recipe would be pretty much the same (and a lot cheaper) made with chicken thighs.

Prep   -   (20 min)
  1. Cut up your RABBIT into serving pieces. Don't waste all that unrecoverable meat on the carcass, make a soup stock just as for chicken, rabbit makes a very good soup stock.
  2. Chop ONIONS small, chop GARLIC small, mix.
  3. Drain TOMATOES saving the juice, chop up a bit smaller and add back to juice.
  4. Stem MUSHROOMS, cut caps in half one way, then into slices the other way.
Run   -   (1-1/4 hr)
  1. Heat Olive Oil over moderate heat and fry Onion mix until soft.
  2. Add Rabbit, sprinkle with Salt and Pepper and continue to fry over moderate heat, tumbling more and more frequently until the onions are light golden.
  3. Stir in Tomatoes, grate in just a little Nutmeg, add the CLoves. Cover and simmer, tumbling occasionaly for about 45 minutes or until rabbit is fork tender.
  4. Remove rabbit and keep warm to serve separately.
  5. Stir Mushrooms into sauce and simmer an additional 10 minutes, adjusting consistency and salt as required.
  6. In Italy, the sauce would be served with pasta as a pasta course, rabbit as a meat course following. In California, we serve it all togeher a shown in the photo, to minimize the number of courses the kitchen must deal with.
NOTES:
  1. Red Pepper:

      A fairly mild dried red pepper powder or flake, like Kashmir or Korean, would be about right - Italians are wimps on chilis. For details see our Chili Powders / Flake page.
  2. U.S. measure: t=teaspoon, T=Tablespoon, c=cup, qt=quart, oz=ounce, #=pound, cl=clove in=inch, ar=as required tt=to taste
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