A hare is one of the most coveted trophies of every hunter. The process of tracking and shooting this wild animal, which is quite widespread in our latitudes, brings great pleasure. And after an exhausting hobby, you should have a good meal. For these purposes, a mountain hare is better suited. Compared with his fellow tribesman, living in low-lying, marshy places, he stands out by taste. It is also believed that the meat of a hare is better than a white hare. For eating it is advisable to shoot a younger animal. The best dish that can be prepared after such a hunt is a hare stewed in sour cream. We will reveal all the culinary secrets, as well as tell you some alternative recipes.
The first steps
A dish such as a hare stewed in sour cream is not so easy to prepare. First you need to properly prepare the meat. The hare must remain in the skin for at least three days. Only after this time should it be gutted. Remove the skin from the hare at least two days before cooking. For a day you need to soak the meat in water, you can add a little vinegar. And before frying, you need to wash the hare and completely clean it.
Recipe No. 1: Easy
A hare stewed in sour cream can be prepared quite simply. The recipe does not contain anything superfluous, only basic products. So, we need:
- meat of one hare;
- onions (no more than three heads);
- a glass (200-250 g) of sour cream;
- some vegetable oil;
- greens;
- salt.
Before you start cooking, you need to prepare the carcass of the animal. It’s better to leave the meat for a couple of hours in water (1 liter) with vinegar (1 glass). After that, cut the hare into small pieces, put on a baking sheet, add salt. Then sprinkle with chopped onion rings and chopped herbs on top. Add frying oil and place the pan in the oven. Bake until the meat is covered with a light golden crust. Now the hare is ready for stewing. The meat should be transferred to a deep pan. Sour cream should be mixed with juice, which remained on a baking sheet after frying. The resulting sauce must be sprinkled with meat. A hare stewed in sour cream over low heat will be ready in half an hour. Enjoy your meal!
Hare stewed in sour cream with garlic - recipe
Now consider the second cooking option. Garlic - the perfect spice for meat, gives it a piquant taste and pungency. In the list of necessary ingredients:
- hare (about 2 kg in weight);
- one large carrot;
- as many onions;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- half a liter of fat sour cream;
- spices to taste.
The preparation of meat is similar - it needs to be soaked. Then, pieces of the hare should be grated with garlic, sprinkled with spices (it is better to choose pepper) and left for another hour. Then you need to lightly fry the meat in a hot pan. At the same time, fry the chopped onions and carrots in another bowl. Now we need a deep pan. It is necessary to lay meat down, vegetables on top of it. All products should be poured with sour cream, slightly diluted with water. In an hour, a hare stewed in sour cream with garlic will be ready. The recipe provides a long hour of cooking. Indeed, it will take so much time for the meat to become soft.
Juicy stewed rabbit in sour cream - recipe
Step by step we will describe another possible cooking option. Many complain about the dryness and hardness of the meat of these animals. If your goal is an appetizing and soft hare stewed in sour cream, the recipe should be varied with any fatty product, for example, lard.
To start, pieces of meat need to be stuffed with lard. To do this, you need about 100 g of fat. Then the meat must be pepper, salt, add sour cream (1 cup). Now you need to cook meat in the oven in the usual way until half-ready.
Now let's start to put out the hare. To do this, put the meat in a deep bowl, pour it with broth (about 2 glasses), add more sour cream (1 glass) and put the pan on a slow fire, where we leave until ready.
But that is not all. In a pan, you need to melt the butter (about 50 g), add 2 tbsp to it. l flour, mix thoroughly. Then add the broth in which the meat was stewed, and boil the resulting mass for a couple of minutes. This sauce must be added to the pot with pieces of hare, put the dishes on the fire again and turn off the stove when the liquid is brought to a boil.
Now you can decorate the dish with beets or beans and serve.
Gourmet Happiness
If you want to add a twist to a dish such as rabbit stewed in sour cream, the recipe is recommended to be slightly edited. Tasty meat will be combined with some kind of sweetness. It can be fruits or berries. Many are delighted with the combination of rabbit meat and sweet prunes.
In order to cook such a dish, you will need:
- hare;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- a little more than half a glass of dried fruit;
- half a liter of fat sour cream;
- 2 large onion heads;
- large carrot;
- spices (it is better to pay attention to Provencal herbs, rosemary, pepper);
- salt.
First, the meat must be marinated, after rubbing it with garlic and adding herbs and a little vegetable oil. Prunes should be poured with boiling water so that it swells. In a deep bowl, simmer chopped vegetables slightly, then add dried fruits to them. Now it was the turn of the hare to languish in the cauldron. First, let only the meat be slightly fried, and then you need to add the vegetables and prunes to the pan.
The hare should be stewed for an hour, after watering it with sour cream diluted with water. Real jam!
Alternative recipe
Prunes are not the only sweets that combine with meat. You can cook a hare stewed in sour cream with apples. There is no special culinary secret here. You can take any recipe described above and improve it with apples of sweet varieties. It should only be borne in mind that first chopped fruits, and then meat and other ingredients, should be put on the bottom of the pan.