Hare, stewed in sour cream. We reveal culinary secrets

The hare is one of the most desired trophies of each hunter. The very process of tracking down and shooting this rather widespread wild animal in our latitudes brings great pleasure. And after the exhausting hobby should be properly refreshed. For these purposes, a mountain hare is better suited. In comparison with his fellow countryman, dwelling in lowland, swampy places, he favorably stands out for his taste qualities. It is also believed that the meat of the hare-hare is better than the whitefish. For consumption in food, it is desirable to shoot a younger animal. The best dish that can be cooked after such a hunt is a hare stewed in sour cream. We will reveal all the culinary secrets, and also tell you some alternative recipes.

First steps

A dish like a hare stewed in sour cream is not so easy to cook. 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 should be 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 cooking, you need to wash the hare and completely clean it.

Recipe No. 1: Light

A hare stewed in sour cream can be cooked quite simply. The recipe and does not contain anything superfluous, just basic products. So, we need:

• Meat of one rabbit;
• Onions (no more than three heads);
• A glass (200-250 g) of sour cream;
• A little vegetable oil;
• greenery;
• salt.

Before you start cooking, you need to prepare the carcass of the animal. Better still 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 it on a baking tray, add salt. Then top with sprinkled onion rings and chopped herbs. Add oil for frying and put the baking tray in the oven. Bake until the meat is covered with a light golden crust. Now the hare is ready for extinguishing. The meat should be transferred to a deep saucepan. Sour cream should be mixed with juice, which remained on the baking sheet after frying. The resulting sauce must be poured on meat. Hare, stewed in sour cream on low heat, will be ready in half an hour. Bon Appetit!

Hare stewed in sour cream with garlic - recipe

Now consider the second option. Garlic - an ideal spice for meat, gives it a piquant taste and sharpness. In the list of necessary ingredients:

• Hare (by weight about 2 kg);
• One large carrot;
• The same number of onions;
• 3 cloves garlic;
• Half a liter of fatty sour cream;
• Spices to taste.

Preparation of meat is similar - it needs to be soaked. Then slices of hare should be rubbed with garlic, sprinkled with spices (it is better to choose pepper) and leave for another hour. Then you need to lightly fry the meat in a hot frying pan. In parallel, in another bowl, grind the chopped onions and carrots. Now we need a deep saucepan. Down it is necessary to lay out meat, on top of it - vegetables. All products should be poured with sour cream, slightly diluted with water. An hour later, the hare, stewed in sour cream with garlic, will be ready. The recipe provides for a long cooking hour. After all, it will take so long for the meat to become soft.

Juicy stewed hare in sour cream - recipe

Step by step we will describe one more possible variant of preparation. 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 fat product, for example, lard.

To begin with, the pieces of meat need to be stuffed with bacon. To do this, you need about 100 grams of fat. Then the meat must be peppered, add salt, add sour cream (1 glass). Now you need a habitual way to cook the meat in the oven until half cooked.

Now we will begin to extinguish the hare. To do this, put the meat in a deep bowl, pour it on the broth (about 2 glasses), add more sour cream (1 glass) and put the pan on a slow fire, where we leave until done.

But that's not all. In the pan, 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 should be added to a saucepan with pieces of hare, again put the dishes on fire 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 to the table.

Happiness for gourmets

If you want to add a zest to a dish like a hare stewed in sour cream, a recipe is recommended to be slightly edited. Delicious meat will be obtained in combination with any sweetness. It can be fruit or berries. Many are delighted with the combination of hare meat and sweet prunes.

In order to prepare a similar dish, you will need:

• hare;
• 4 cloves garlic;
• Slightly more than half a glass of dried fruit;
• Half a liter of fatty sour cream;
• 2 large onion heads;
• A large carrot;
• Spices (it is better to pay attention to Provence herbs, rosemary, pepper);
• salt.

First, the meat must be marinated, after wiping 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 container, lightly crush the chopped vegetables, then add dried fruits to them. Now it was the turn of the hare to languish in the cauldron. Let at first slightly fry only meat, and then you need to add to the pan and vegetables with prunes.

The hare should be stewed for an hour, pre-watering it with diluted sour cream. Real jam!

Alternative recipe

Prunes are not the only sweetness, combined with meat. You can cook a hare, stewed in sour cream with apples. There is no special culinary secret here. You can take any of the above recipe and perfect it with apples of sweet varieties. It should only be taken into account that at the bottom of the pot you must first lay out the crushed fruit, and then meat and other ingredients.