Pa's Rabbit

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 rabbit
• salt
• pepper
• 250 -375 g butter
• 1 -1 1/2 cup hot water
• bouquet garni (optional)
• 1 onion (optional)

Recipe

• 1 melt butter in saucepan and saute onion.
• 2 heat butter mixture until golden brown.
• 3 fry rabbit in butter until evenly browned and sealed.
• 4 add the water and simmer for 1-5 hours with the water only *just* moving because the meat will toughen if it boils.
• 5 my dad usually makes this without the bouquet garni in the pot-- he gets wild rabbits on the farm in new zealand and they seem to be strong enough in flavour to not need it.
• 6 i buy my bunnies in the dutch supermarket and think that the additional herbs*are* needed as these are farmed rabbits and don't have the same taste.