Rabbit meat is considered a dietary meat and for some reason many believe that it is dry, tasteless, tough.
This is actually a fallacy.
A rabbit can be very tender, juicy and soft, especially if cooked in sour cream.
And in order not to spend a lot of time, we will do it in the oven.
Rabbit in sour cream in the oven - general principles of cooking
Raw rabbit meat has a specific odor, therefore the meat needs to be soaked. To do this, fill the carcass or prepared pieces with water, periodically change the liquid. In the water you can add slices of lemon, vinegar, any spices. Soak the meat for at least 4 hours.
After soaking, the carcass is washed with cold water, dried, removed from the surface of the film. Then the meat is pickled, rubbed with spices, sour cream. Sometimes vegetables, prunes, nuts are added.
How to cook a rabbit with sour cream in the oven:
• simply put out or fry in a mold;
• bake in foil;
• cook in a pot;
• fry in the sleeve.
The recipes indicate the approximate cooking time. In fact, it depends on the age of the animal. A young rabbit can cook in 30 minutes, and old meat and two hours will not be enough.
Recipe 1: Braised rabbit in sour cream in the oven
To cook a stewed rabbit in sour cream in the oven, you will need a deep frying pan, you can use the ducklings. Any broth will be needed for pouring, but you can just take water or dissolve the cube.
Ingredients
• 1.5 kg of rabbit;
• 400 grams of broth or water;
• 2 onions;
• 350 grams of sour cream;
• 3-4 tablespoons of flour;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 50 grams of butter, it is better to use butter;
• 0.5 lemon;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Rinse the carcass, remove the film and cut into pieces of any size.
2. Sprinkle the meat with spices, squeeze the juice from half a lemon and mix. Leave to marinate.
3. Onion cut into half rings and lightly fry in butter until transparent.
4. Roll the pickled rabbit in flour and also fry in a pan with butter. Long cooking is not necessary, we make a big fire and fry on both sides until a golden crust appears.
5. Put in the form fried onions, then pieces of meat.
6. Stir the sour cream with the broth, salt, pepper and set off to cook in the oven for about 35-40 minutes. The exact time depends on the age of the meat and the size of the pieces. We do not raise temperatures above 180 degrees.
Recipe 2: Rabbit in sour cream in the oven with summer vegetables
To prepare such a rabbit with sour cream in the oven, you will need summer vegetables: zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes and young potatoes, it is better to take small tubers to use as a whole.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of rabbit;
• 700 grams of potatoes;
• 1 zucchini;
• 2 eggplants;
• 4 tomatoes;
• 2 onions;
• a little flour;
• 50 grams of grape or apple vinegar;
• spices;
• 500 grams of sour cream.
Cooking
1. Cut the washed and dried rabbit into pieces, sprinkle with spices and add fruit vinegar. Mix and leave for half an hour. If possible, you can marinate the meat in advance and hold in the refrigerator for 8-10 hours.
2. We clean all the vegetables. If the zucchini is young, then the skin and seeds can not be touched and just cut the fruit into circles. We cut eggplants in the same way.
3. Blend eggplant and tomato mugs in flour and mix them to the bottom of a greased form.
4. Next, put the pieces of rabbit and potatoes. Between them we stick quarters of tomatoes. Tomatoes do not need to be minced.
5. Sour cream, pepper and thickly grease vegetables with meat. The remains are simply poured on top.
6. Cover the mold with foil and cook for about 50 minutes. Then we remove and fry the top layer until golden brown.
Recipe 3: Rabbit in sour cream in the oven with champignons
A protein dish of rabbit in sour cream in the oven. Great idea for a healthy dinner. We take sour cream of any fat content, we use fresh or frozen champignons.
Ingredients
• 2 kg of rabbit;
• 400 grams of sour cream;
• 700 grams of champignons;
• 3-4 bulbs;
• spices;
• some oil.
You will also need a form with high sides and a piece of foil.
Cooking
1. Cut the rabbit into pieces, season with spices and leave for a while.
2. Cut the onions and mushrooms into slices, not finely. If the mushrooms themselves are small, then you can simply cut them into 2 parts.
3. Pour 2 tablespoons of oil into the pan and fry the mushrooms with onion. We make a big fire so that the juice does not stand out. Fry for 3 minutes and enough.
4. Spread the mixed mushrooms with the rabbit.
5. Salt sour cream, add 150 grams of water, you can add pepper, dried dill, ground paprika or a clove of garlic. Shake the fill well.
6. Fill the contents of the mold with sour cream, cover with foil on top and send to the oven for 25 minutes. Then we remove the foil and cook the rabbit for another 20-30 minutes, we focus on the softness of the meat.
Recipe 4: Rabbit in sour cream in the oven with potatoes
Another version of a vegetable dish from a rabbit in sour cream in the oven. This time the recipe is adapted for any time of the year, as it mainly consists of meat with potatoes, as well as vegetables that are in the house, regardless of the season.
Ingredients
• 1 rabbit;
• 8 potatoes;
• 7 spoons of sour cream;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 onion;
• 1 spoon of dry adjika;
• 200 grams of water;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Peel the potatoes, cut in 3-4 mm circles and lay on the bottom of the mold. Sprinkle lightly with salt, can be crushed with pepper.
2. Next lay the carrots, also peeled, but cut into thinner circles.
3. Put onion sliced in half rings on carrots.
4. Chop the rabbit in pieces, sprinkle with salt and lay on top of the vegetable layer.
5. Beat sour cream with a fork with adjika, gradually add water.
6. Pour the resulting sauce into the dish and put in the oven. Such a rabbit will be prepared for about an hour.
Recipe 5: Rabbit in sour cream in the oven under cheese
To prepare the dish you will need any hard cheese. We will marinate the rabbit in white wine, but if you wish, you can use red or pink, from this the result will not be worse.
Ingredients
• 1 carcass of a rabbit about 1.5 kg;
• 2 onions;
• 200 grams of sour cream;
• 200 grams of cheese;
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• 150 grams of white wine;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Cut the rabbit into pieces, pour with wine, salt, put in an airtight container and leave for 2 hours. If possible, pickle longer. But in this case, it is better to put the meat in the refrigerator.
2. Peel the onion, cut into rings and lay on the bottom of the mold.
3. Put the pieces of the rabbit on top.
4. The remaining wine with meat juices are combined with sour cream, add soy sauce and pour on the rabbit.
5. Put the dish in the oven for 20 minutes.
6. We take out the rabbit that has already begun to fry, sprinkle with grated large chips of cheese, send it to cook for another 20 minutes. We serve such meat with fresh vegetables or a side dish of boiled rice.
Recipe 6: Rabbit in Sour Cream with Garlic in the Oven
A very fragrant rabbit recipe. The dish turns out moderately sharp, tender, juicy. We will bake just meat, but if you wish, you can put any vegetables under it: potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, zucchini.
Ingredients
• 1 carcass of a rabbit;
• 400 grams of sour cream;
• 1 tablespoon of mustard;
• 1 head of garlic;
• 0.5 tablespoons of paprika;
• salt;
• 1 lemon.
Cooking
1. Cut into rabbit pieces, sprinkle with paprika, salt, squeeze lemon juice and mix. Tamp with your hand and leave to marinate for an hour.
2. Add mustard, chopped head of garlic to sour cream and mix well.
3. Add the sour cream sauce to the pickled pieces of meat, mix by hand and shift everything into a mold greased with a piece of butter.
4. Set the dish to bake at 180 degrees until fully cooked. From time to time, you need to get out the form and pour the sauce on the pieces with the allocated juice.
Recipe 7: A beautiful rabbit with sour cream in the oven in its entirety
For baking, you will need a rabbit carcass weighing about 1.5 kilograms. As well as a baking bag, which will help preserve the juiciness and tenderness of the rabbit in sour cream.
Ingredients
• rabbit;
• salt pepper;
• 5 tablespoons of fat sour cream;
• 1 spoon of mustard;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 1 onion.
Cooking
1. Wash the carcass outside and inside, wipe dry with napkins.
2. Mix sour cream with mustard, salt, pepper.
3. We rub the rabbit with an aromatic mixture on all sides and inside.
4. Peel the onion, cut into rings. Lemon circles. And all this is laid in the rib part of the carcass.
5. Put the rabbit in the sleeve. If there is a sour cream mixture, then lubricate again or simply spread on top.
6. We tie the sleeve on both sides, make 2 punctures with a needle on top.
7. Send to the oven to bake for an hour. Then we cut the film, bend it to the sides and lightly fry the carcass. You can sprinkle with grated cheese a little to make a delicious crust.
Recipe 8: Rabbit with Sour Cream in an Oven in a Pot
To prepare such a rabbit you will need pots with lids. But if there is nothing to cover the dishes with, then we simply fill up the neck with any dough.
Ingredients
• 300 grams of sour cream;
• 1 kg of rabbit;
• 200 grams of broth;
• 2 onions;
• 150 grams of cheese;
• 0.5 tablespoons of dried dill;
• salt;
• 5-6 peas of pepper.
Cooking
1. At the bottom of the pots we throw peppercorns.
2. Peel the onion, chop the rings.
3. Cut the rabbit into pieces and put into pots, alternating with pieces of onion.
4. Mix sour cream with broth, put grated cheese, salt, dill.
5. Pour the sauce into pots, approximately 2/3 of the height.
6. Cover and send for an hour in the oven. Cook at 180 degrees, then turn it off and, without opening the doors, let the pots stand for another half hour.
Rabbit in sour cream in the oven - useful tips and tricks
• The rabbit stewed in sour cream will be tastier if you fry the slices beforehand in a pan until golden brown. And to make it appear faster, the meat can be dipped in flour, and it is better to fry in butter. We set the highest fire so that the meat does not have time to empty the juice.
• Marinating is the key to juicy and tender rabbit meat. You can use just sour cream with spices, wine, an aqueous solution, vegetables, onions, soy sauce, lemon. In general, everything that is in the house. And to make lean meat more fat, the slices are greased with vegetable or butter.
• If you add sweet paprika powder to sour cream, then the baked rabbit will acquire a beautiful and mouth-watering color. Also, a delicious and beautiful crust gives cheese, which you can just grate and add to sour cream.
• It is believed that the front of the rabbit with its back and legs is more suitable for stewing and cooking. And for baking and frying it is better to use the back of the carcass, as it turns out softer and juicier.
• Soy sauce - a wonderful ingredient for softening meat fibers. It can be used for pickling in pure form or diluted with sour cream, spices, lemon juice.
