Oven bunny baked whole in foil in the oven

Cookware: spoon, bowl, food foil, paper towels, baking sheet.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Despite the relative duration of the process, each step in the preparation of a whole baked rabbit in the oven is quite simple, and does not require a lot of time or special culinary skills.

Pickling a rabbit

1. Rinse the carcass thoroughly under running water. Remove excess adipose tissue and pieces of internal organs remaining after factory gutting from the inside.
   
2. Place the whole rabbit in a large bowl, pour 1.5 liters of cold water, add ¾ tbsp. l (or one dessert spoon) of table 9% vinegar, and soak in water for 1 hour.
   

Preparing rabbit meat for baking

1. After pickling an hour, drain the water from the cup and dry the rabbit’s carcass with paper towels as dry as possible.
   
2. Salt the semi-dry carcass of the rabbit on all sides with a few pinches of salt, paying more attention to its inside, but do not overdo it with the ambassador.
   
3. Also sprinkle the carcass with a small amount of black ground pepper, you can white or a mixture of peppers. This operation is most conveniently carried out using a manual mill. Sprinkle the rabbit on both sides with dry crushed basil leaves and grate it with vegetable oil on top. Fold the rabbit in a bowl, cover with cling film and put in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
   

Bake the delicacy

Before baking any meat, especially rabbit meat or poultry, it is better to put meat in the oven that has warmed up to room temperature. Therefore, after pickling in the refrigerator, you need to take out a bowl of pickled product in advance, about an hour before baking.

1. Place two sheets of foil overlap on a baking sheet. Lightly grease the foil 1-2 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
   
2. Put the pickled rabbit on oiled foil, spreading the carcass over the entire baking sheet.
   
3. Tightly wrap the foil laid out by the rabbit carcass so that juice does not flow out and steam does not escape from under the foil. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C, and bake the rabbit for 1 hour 20 minutes.
   

Serving and decoration

Serve the whole baked rabbit on a serving platter, garnishing with sprigs of greens and laying along the edge with vegetables - small cherry tomatoes and coarsely sliced ​​cucumber slices.

Before serving, the carcass can be divided into portions, or you can serve the whole. As a side dish, they offer folding rice or potatoes cooked in any way - from mashed potatoes to fries. They also exhibit marinades and preserves, sauces, ketchups, sprigs of fresh herbs and any salads.

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