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Submitted by evelynathens
"Most people are familiar with beef stifado but, traditionally, this wonderful dish is made with rabbit or wild hare. In my opinion, the rabbit version is far better than the beef."
photo by skipevaag
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
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4
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ingredients
- 1 large rabbit, jointed (approximately 3 1/2 pounds)
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 tablespoons red wine vinegar (balsamic also works nicely)
- 1⁄2 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1⁄3 teaspoon sugar
- 4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- 1 small cinnamon stick (about a 3-inch length)
- 4 whole allspice
- 1 sprig rosemary
- 2⁄3 cup red wine
- 1 1⁄4 cups hot water
- salt and black pepper
- 1 1⁄2 lbs white pearl onions, peeled, left whole
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directions
- Rinse the rabbit pieces and place them in a mixing bowl together with the bay leaves and vinegar; mix well and leave to marinate for at least 2 hours, or overnight; remove the rabbit from the marinade and pat dry with kitchen paper.
- Heat half of the olive oil in a large saucepan until hot, add the rabbit and fry the pieces until quite brown on all sides; add the tomato paste, bay leaves (left over from the marinade), sugar, garlic, spices, wine and the hot water.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Bring to the boil mixing well then reduce the heat, cover and simmer for about 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, heat the remaining olive oil in a frying pan; add the onions and sauté gently for 15 minutes stirring occasionally, until golden all over; after the rabbit has been cooking for 1 hour, add the onions and oil from the frying pan to the saucepan; combine, then re-cover and simmer for a further 15 minutes; fish out the cinnamon stick, allspice berries and rosemary sprig.
- Note: This can be served with pasta, noodles, rice or oven-roasted potatoes, but my personal favourite is homemade french-fries, which taste delicious dunked in the spicy sauce.
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Reviews
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We really enjoyed this rabbit recipe. I marinated the rabbit overnight. The sauce smelled wonderful while it was cooking. It reminded me of the smell of mulled wine. I served the rabbit over mashed potatoes to soak up the extra sauce. Thanks for posting!
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I was given a couple of rabbits and decided to look up a different way of cooking them and this is it. This is not only easy it tastes great and my husband and father in law loved it, I had no leftovers so that should tell you something! I will continue to use this one.
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I just love rabbit, and since I raisemy own, I can pretty well have it at anytime. I must admit this is a fantastic reciepe, I just didn'tcare for the cinnamon, so I did itagain but with out the cinnamon stick, and it was fabuluos. Thankyou so much for sharring this receipe with all of us receipe lovers!!!!!!!LOL!!
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First of all I'd just like to say what a fantastic recipe and the nearest I've found to authentic greek stifaldo, better than restaurants in UK.I was waiting a long till for the sauce to thicken and was almost at the point of giving up when all of a sudden it thickend and turned into the best rich sauce ever !!.
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<style>body { background: url("http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3512121819_f2f1aaf050.jpg?v=0"); background-repeat: repeat-y; }</style>OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.What did I do wrong?Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time. That's all for now.
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