Rabbit with Orange and Red Wine Sauce Recipe (VIDEO)

Holiday dish – learn how to make gentle rabbit meat in berry fruit sauce

Ingredients:
Rabbit – 1 kg
Oranges – 3 ps
Cranberry -200 g
Paprika – 1/2 tsp
Anise – 1/2 tsp
Olive oil – 1 tbsp
Red wine – 100-200 ml
Sugar – 2 tbsp
Thyme
Salt
Pepper

Preparation:
Wash and dry the rabbit, divide into portions. For marinating and softening the rabbit meat usually water, red wine or wine vinegar are used. If you have enough time, firstly, leave rabbit in water for 1-2 hours. For marinate mix 100 ml of wine, paprika, anise, salt, pepper and olive oil. Marinate meat for 2-24 hours. Wine can be replaced by wine vinegar (3 tbsp).
You may also rub rabbit with salt, paprika and anise, cover and leave it for an hour. but to be sure the meat will be soft, it’s better to marinate.
Peel 2 oranges, divide into slices, remove seeds and white membranes. Rinse cranberries.
Fry each piece of rabbit on both sides in olive oil. For baking, use an enamel bowl with lid or put foil on bottom of pan. Pour into a pan half of cranberries, put rabbit meat, on top – slices of orange and cranberries again. Cover with lid or foil and bake the meat in a preheated 200 ° C oven for 1 hour.
Squeeze the juice of an orange peel and grate the peel on. Put orange juice, zest, 100 ml of wine, sugar, thyme in a saucepan, bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer about 10 minutes.
Put rabbit meat on a plate, pour a fruit sauce on top of and serve.