Basic Crock Pot Rabbit

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Processed an older doe today...trying a super-basic crock pot recipe.

If your rabbit will fit in the crock pot whole, do that. If not, quarter it.

Start by cooking two strips of bacon (cut in half) until they are juuust beginning to cook, so they are still floppy but the fat is beginning to dissolve. Place in the bottom of the crock pot. Cut up a few potatoes, put those in the pot. Add some carrots if you so choose (we're out so I have none to add). I chose to leave the skins on the potatoes, added nutrition and stuff.

Rub the rabbit down with Old Bay seasoning, a little ground up sage, and liberal amounts of garlic salt. Place rabbit into the pot. Dump a small can of chicken stock into the pot, as well as about a quarter cup of water. Then pour a can of condensed Cream of Broccoli soup in onto the rabbit that isn't totally immersed in the broth/water.

Add a few whole cloves (NOT TOO MANY, cloves go a loooong way!) and cover...turn on high.

Cook for a couple hours, flip rabbit over. Cook until tender.

If you want to make gravy out of the soup/broth, put some in a saucepan and add some flour, reduce it for a while.

 

[Miss M]

Oh, that sounds divine! And right after Mom said we should start cooking in the crock-pot more, to keep the house from heating up.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

It was an ordeal, because her head was too blasted huge to fit straight in my wringer, so I had to use the pellet gun...amidst much protest from my dad, because she was his favorite doe. I finally asked him, totally exasperated, "If you like her that much how about you pay to FEED her from now on?!"

My dad remained skeptical throughout the process...and seemed opposed to even TRYING the finished product.

Until he smelled it cooking when I flipped her. :twisted:

He declared it was like chicken except juicy and delicious, not dry or fatty. He ate a huge serving and had seconds. I served it with a garden salad (half of a tablespoon of ranch dressing, plus a few squirts of raspberry pecan vinagrette for the dressing) and of course, steamed broccoli.

My dad seems to have forgotten his "favorite doe" existed. She was over ten pounds live, not 100% sure what she was dressed, but she BARELY fit in our huge crock pot. There's so much leftover meat, I barely know what to do with it.

My dad, however...has a PLAN...he said he's sure he can take the meat off the bones, use the soup and stock she was cooked in and make a SECOND DINNER out of it...he said either a homemade rabbit stew OR a rabbit a la king dish!!!

So if you get a monster stewing rabbit, there could be a sequel dinner to this crock pot dish!!!!

I planned to take pictures before we ate but then I forgot.

 

[Whipple]

I love when theyre so big they last for a few meals. We took the bones out of the meat, then added it to canned vegi soup for a quick lunch. So yummy! Then I added bbq sauce and had it on buns the third day for lunch.

 

[Miss M]

Sloppy Hoppies! They're a favorite around here.