Roasted Rabbit and Dumplings For this episode of Adventure Cooking, I decided to try something entirely outside of my comfort zone. Featuring recipes adapted from The Little House. Pour the hot stew in a large casserole dish and drop golf ball size dumplings all over the top.

Ingredients of Roasted Rabbit and Dumplings

  1. You need of Rabbit stew.
  2. Prepare 2-1/2 pound of rabbit.
  3. Prepare 8 ounces of baby portobello mushrooms.
  4. You need 1/3 pound of carrots sliced.
  5. It's 1 of medium onion diced.
  6. It's 12 ounce of Guinness stout beer.
  7. You need 2/3 cup of all purpose flour divided.
  8. You need 1 teaspoon of salt.
  9. It's 1 teaspoon of ground black pepper.
  10. It's 1-1/2 pints of chicken broth.
  11. Prepare 4 of slices/rashes thick cut bacon.
  12. You need 1 teaspoon of rosemary.
  13. Prepare of Dumplings.
  14. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of tarragon.
  15. You need 1 tablespoon of parsley.
  16. It's 1/2 cup of milk.
  17. You need 1-1/2 cups of flour.
  18. You need 1 stick of butter cold and grated.
  19. You need 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil.
  20. It's As needed of kosher salt.
  21. You need To taste of salt.
  22. Prepare To taste of ground black pepper.
  23. It's 1/2 teaspoon of ground nutmeg.

Roasted Rabbit and Dumplings instructions

  1. Peel the carrots. Cut the rabbit into sections. Slice the carrots into 1 inch pieces. Add salt and pepper to all the flour, in a ziploc bag. Slice the portobello mushrooms..
  2. Add the rabbit to the seasoned flour in the ziploc bag. Coat each piece. Allow to rest in the flour, 10 minutes..
  3. Add the butter and olive oil for the rabbit stew to a dutch oven or an oven safe dish with a good fitting lid. Fry the rabbit in batches till golden brown..
  4. Slice the bacon into little pieces. Add the mushrooms, carrots, bacon, onions, and spices. Cook let the bacon gets crisp..
  5. When the bacon is crisp add, 2 tablespoons of flour from the ziploc bag to the bacon mixture and sauté for 7 minutes. Add the broth, beer, and rabbit back into the Dutch oven. Preheat oven 375°Fahrenheit.
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  7. Mix the flour, parsley, tarragon, butter, salt, and pepper. Add milk till the flour isn't sticky but firm. Roll the flour into a long rope, that's around 1 inch across. Cut the rope about an inch in length. Roll into 1 inch balls..
  8. After they are rolled into balls and coat each with olive oil and sprinkle with kosher salt and sprinkle with nutmeg. Set each dumpling on top of stew..
  9. Set in oven covered 15 minutes. Remove lid continue roasting for 15 minutes. Let rest 10 minutes serve. I hope you enjoy!!!!.

The dish is excellent when guests are coming, a family celebration is coming up or at Easter. Ask your butcher to joint the rabbit, cutting the legs into two pieces, the saddle into three and the shoulders and front into two. We thought we'd start out this week's Cook the Book series by highlighting one of Jamie Oliver's favorite recipes from Cook with Jamie. It's a dish he playfully calls Tender-as-You-Like Rabbit Stew with the Best Dumplings Ever. Though rabbit is not as common a meat as it once was, Oliver urges you to.

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