Rabbit Chasseur with Mushrooms Lapin Chasseur Avec Champignons

meal traditional recipe

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Until know I traditionally did my rabbit using white wine, this is a spin on it that traditional recipe using red wine. Turned out quite good.

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Ingredients

• 1 Rabbit
• 1 Litter of good red wine
• 1 carrot
• 1 onion
• 1 celery
• 2 laurel leaf
• 1 lb mushroom
• 1 Tbsp of Flour
• Salt & Pepper
• Olive Oil
• Optional: potatoes

Method

1. Prepare the mirepoix (dice the carrot, onion & celery)
2. Cut the rabbit
3. In a large cast iron, heat some oil at medium high
4. Brown the rabbit on all sides, set aside
5. Reduce the heat to medium low
6. Add the mirepoix and cook until tender, about 5 mn
7. Deglaze the pot with a little bit of wine
8. Add the flour and cook for a minute
9. Add back the rabbit
10. Cover with wine
11. Add the laurel
12. Add salt & pepper
13. Bring back the heat to medium high until it simmer
14. Bring back the heat to medium low, cover (as needed)
15. Tune the heat so that the wine reduce greatly by the end of the cooking
16. 30 mn before the end of cooking, prep the mushroom (clear and dice)
17. In a pan, add some oil, on medium, cook the mushroom
18. If serving with potatoes, peel the potatoes,  place into a pot, cover with water, bring to a boil and cook for 20 mn (mine were very small, so cooked for 15 mn). Drain the potatoes
19. 5 mn before the end, add the mushroom into the pot

Serve with some potatoes.

You can also add some bacon or something similar at the start  of the preparation, right before the mirepoix.

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Traditional
Serve	4
Preparation Time	20 mn
Cooking Time	1 h 30 mn
Temperature
Authors	Pascal Crausaz
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