Rabbit meat is a tasty and healthy dietary product. But there are cases of deception of buyers, when instead of rabbit meat, people received completely different meat. How do you know that you are not being offered another animal instead of a rabbit?
Instructions
Step 1
There is a tradition according to which the seller leaves one of the rabbit's legs or its tail unskinned. This will help you determine that the carcass does not belong to the cat. But not all meat sellers do this, so pay attention to some other points.
Step 2
Remember the structure of the rabbit's body and look at the hind legs of the carcass. They should be longer than the front and more developed, in other animals, which can be passed off as a rabbit, the limbs are evenly developed.
Step 3
Rabbit meat is dietary, white if the animal was well-fed, or white-pink if the animal was not very dense. This product is delicate, and its fine-grained structure is visible in the section.
Step 4
The muscle fibers are thin and delicate, and the connective tissue is loose and poorly developed. Thick carcasses should have a fairly pronounced layer of fat in the muscle tissue. Rabbits have no fat in the subcutaneous tissue; it is deposited near the kidneys and in the pelvic cavity. This substance is white in color with a soft consistency.
Step 5
Don't confuse rabbit meat with hare meat. It has a dark red color with a bluish tinge. The muscle fibers are short and thick, covered with dense connective tissue. This product is harsh, hard and slightly dry. Hare meat is specific in taste and smell, there is practically no fat in it.
Step 6
Cooking rabbit meat is faster and easier than rabbit meat. This product is easy to chew, it is well digested by the stomach and almost completely absorbed. Rabbit meat tastes like chicken meat. If you don’t know how to cook rabbit meat, use different methods of preparing chicken dishes instead.
Step 7
For frying, it is better to take the back of the carcass, and stew or boil the front. Rabbit meat is very low in cholesterol and fat, so it is highly valued by nutritionists. If you fry rabbit meat, it will absorb the fat and become less lean, but tastier and more flavorful.
