RABBIT PASTA

Rabbit Pasta

YIELD: 2 SERVINGS

Pot Roast Rabbit Pasta

Rabbit is a much underused meat, delicate and lean it makes a perfect and simple sauce in this pot roast rabbit pasta recipe.

PREP TIME

10 minutes

COOK TIME

4 hours 20 minutes

TOTAL TIME

4 hours 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 Onion, Roughly chopped

• 1 Stick Celery, Roughly chopped

• 1 Carrot, Roughly chopped

• 2 Cloves Garlic, Bashed with the side of a knife and peeled

• 2 Tbsp Olive Oil

• 600g Rabbit, If you can get it jointed then that is great

• 500 ml White Wine, Something dry

• 2 Sprigs Fresh Thyme, Or 1/2 Tsp dried thyme

• 2 Sprigs Fresh Rosemary, Or 1/2 Tsp dried Rosemary

• 1/4 Tsp Salt

• 1 Lemon, Zest only cut large using a vegetable peeler

• 25 g Butter

• 1 Handful Parsley, Roughly chopped

• 200 g Bucatini Pasta, Use anything long, I like bucatini as the holes in the middle work really well with thin sauce

• Parmesan Shavings, To serve

Instructions

1 Place a roasting tray in the oven half filled with water and heat to 100°C.

2 Heat a pan over a medium heat and add the olive oil.

3 Add in the onion, celery, carrot and garlic and allow to cook gently for 20 minutes stirring occasionally.

4 Turn up the heat to high and add in the rabbit searing it on all sides seasoning with the salt.

5 Pour in the white wine and reduce the heat to low.

6 Throw in the lemon zest, thyme and rosemary.

7 Now wet a piece of baking parchment that you have cut into a circle roughly the size of your pan.

8 Cover the meat and vegetables with the baking parchment and add a lid then place in the oven in the roasting tray and roast for four hours.

9 After four hours fish out the rabbit and set aside and strain the solids from the cooking liquid and then reduce the cooking liquid by two thirds.

10 Cook your pasta as per the instructions on the packet.

11 Whist the liquid is reducing shred the rabbit meat and discard the bones.

12 Remove the sauce from the heat and whisk in the butter and then add the shredded rabbit meat and the parsley.

13 When you pasta is served fold it through the sauce and serve with some Parmesan shavings.