Best Snowshoe Hare With Onions Recipes

HASENPFEFFER WITH SEMOLINA DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Marinate the rabbit. Bring all the ingredients for the marinade to a boil, then let cool to room temperature. While the marinade is cooling, cut up a hare into serving pieces. Find a covered container (plastic, ceramic, glass) just about large enough to hold the cut-up hare and put the meat inside. Cover with the cooled marinade. If you have leftover marinade, put that into a different container. Put everything in the refrigerator and let it sit at least 8 hours, but 2 days is better.
• Remove the hare from the marinade and pat it dry. Save the marinade. Heat the butter in a large, heavy pot with a lid. Dredge the hare in the flour and brown well on all sides. Do this over medium to medium-high heat so the butter does not burn. Remove the hare pieces as they brown and set aside.
• As the hare is browning, preheat your oven to 325°F and strain the marinade into a bowl.
• Once you've browned the hare, add the onion and stir to coat with the butter. If there is not much butter left, add another tablespoon or so. Cook the onions over medium-high heat until they are soft and a little brown on the edges. Sprinkle salt over them as they cook.
• Return the hare to the pot and add the strained marinade. Bring to a simmer, cover and put into the oven. Cook until the meat wants to fall off the bones: This will take 2 to 4 hours for a wild hare, or between 90 minutes and 2 hours for a store-bought rabbit. To finish the hasenpfeffer, remove it from the oven and uncover the pot. Spoon off about a cup of the sauce and put it into a bowl. Add the sour cream to the bowl and mix to combine. Return the mixture to the pot and swirl it around to combine. Serve at once with the dumplings.
• Make the dumplings. Once the hasenpfeffer has cooked for an hour or so, make the dumpling dough. Heat the milk to the steaming point and add the butter and salt. Start stirring the milk with one hand while you sprinkle in the semolina with the other. Stir well until the semolina absorbs the milk and forms a stiff dough. Take the pot off the heat and let the dough cool. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil on the stove. once it boils, turn off the heat until the hare is done.
• When the hasenpfeffer is ready, turn the heat off the oven but leave everything inside. Mix the egg and nutmeg into the semolina dough. Let the dough stand while you bring your pot of salty water back to a boil, which won't take long because you preheated it. Get a bowl of water ready to wet your hands, so the dumpling dough doesn't stick to them.
• Roll the dough into balls. I like to make dumplings the size of a walnut. As you make them, drop each one into the boiling water. Do not crowd the pot. Once the dumplings start bobbing on the surface, let them cook another 2 to 5 minutes, depending on how soft you like them. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.

SNOWSHOE HARE AND SHIITAKE

Steps:

• Through the feed opening of a running blender add, 1 at a time, the vinegar, shallots, tarragon, rosemary, kosher salt, black pepper, and olive oil to form a paste. Rub this into the rabbit loin and let sit for 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium heat in a saute pan with oven safe handles, and sear marinated rabbit on all sides. Transfer to oven, cover and let cook until it reaches an internal temperature of 135 degrees F, about 20 minutes. Remove and bring to room temperature, then chill.
• Using a 2-inch circle cutter or biscuit cutter, cut the mini potato rolls into rounds and lay out on a utility platter.
• Heat oil over medium heat in a saute pan and add the shiitakes, onions and garlic. Saute until shiitakes are tender and onions are translucent. Add demi-glace and balsamic vinegar, and stir to combine. Transfer to a food processor and pulse to make a coarse hash.
• Slice rabbit into thin slices. Spread some hash on each potato roll and top with thin slices rabbit. Drizzle sour cream sauce over, then garnish with chopped tarragon and orange segments.

SNOWSHOE HARE WITH ONIONS

Steps:

• Skin, clean and cut into pieces the rabbit[s].
• Dredge with seasoned flour.
• Melt the bacon drippings in a skillet or oven proof casserole and saute the rabbit until brown.
• Cover with the onion slices, sprinkle on the seasonings, add one cup water and one c.
• sour cream.
• Cover and simmer very gently or slow bake in a 300 F oven for an hour.