Serves 4;
Prep Time: 15 mins.
Cooking Time 1 hr.
Ingredients
-1 rabbit in joints
-Olive oil
-2 onions sliced
-2 carrots sliced
-5 garlic cloves crushed
-Red wine
-Salt & pepper
-150g cooked fresh peas
-Spaghetti
-5 potatoes for frying
Method
Dust the rabbit joints in seasonal flour. Fry a few at a time in hot olive oil until they are golden brown. Remove from the pan. Add the onions, carrots and garlic and fry until light brown in the oil/drippings.
Return the rabbit to the pan and add a couple of glasses of red wine and season to taste.
Simmer covered until the rabbit is tender for approx. 1 hr. Add peas in the last 15 mins. There are many methods to cooking the fries. I generally slice the potatoes into strips and blanche in hot water. Then fry in oil until golden and crispy.
The traditional way of serving rabbit is to serve the sauce with pasta(spaghetti) as a 1st course/starter and then have the rabbit with remaining sauce and fries as a 2nd course. Buon Appetito
