Rabbit meat is considered a dietary, low-calorie and easily digestible meat that contains a large amount of vitamins and nutrients. A bunny cooked in the oven is delicious, tender and truly original.
In order to cook a rabbit in the oven, you need to properly prepare the meat and marinate it. Initially, soak the rabbit meat in water or marinade. As a rule, rabbit meat is baked, cut into portioned pieces.
Rabbit meat in kefir, baked in the oven
To prepare this delicious dish, you will need the following ingredients:
- rabbit (1-1.5 kg) - 1 pc.;
- onions - 3 pcs.;
- 100 ml of table mustard;
- 200 ml of kefir;
- 2-3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- seasoning for meat (to taste);
- salt (to taste);
- greens (parsley, dill, coriander, etc.) - to taste.
Rinse the meat and cut it into portions, then let it dry naturally on a paper towel. Then put the meat in a bowl, sprinkle with seasoning for the meat.
Peel and chop the onions in half rings, then transfer to a bowl with the meat and cover with kefir. Now the rabbit meat needs to be salted, add black ground pepper, mix well and leave to marinate for 12 hours under a closed lid. Send the meat to the refrigerator.
After the indicated time, remove the meat, fill it with mild mustard and leave for 15 minutes at room temperature. Put the rabbit meat in a baking dish greased with vegetable oil and send to the oven preheated to 180 ° C. After 15 minutes, take out the mold, sprinkle the rabbit with chopped herbs and simmer in the oven until tender. Serve hot.
Rabbit baked in the oven in a pot
You can also cook rabbit meat in a pot. For this dish you will need the following ingredients:
- 1 kg rabbit (fillet);
- 200 g bacon;
- onions - 3 pcs.;
- 4 tbsp. l. flour;
- 150 ml of red wine;
- black bread - 3-4 slices;
- salt, ground pepper (to taste).
Finely chop the pork fat into cubes. Peel and chop the onion, chop the black stale bread.
Rinse the rabbit meat, then cut into portions, salt and add ground pepper, and then roll in flour.
Put the meat in a pot, then pork fat, onion and black bread, pour red dry wine. Put the pots in the oven and simmer at 200 ° C for about 60-70 minutes. Serve the rabbit baked in the oven in a pot.
The benefits of rabbit meat
1. Rabbit meat contains phosphorus, iron, potassium, fluoride, vitamins and other useful substances. Due to its composition, rabbit meat promotes metabolic processes in the human body.
2. A menu made with rabbit dishes will serve as an excellent prevention of atherosclerosis.
3. Nutritionists advise people suffering from digestive diseases to include rabbit meat in their daily diet, since this meat contains little fat and more protein than pork, lamb or veal.
4. Eating rabbit meat reduces the received dose of radiation.
