Name: Lapin Grillé des Hauts Plateaux (Grilled Rabbit in the Style of the High Plateau)
Yield: Serves 4–5
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 oven-ready rabbit, cut in two lengthwise; 8 tablespoons butter, melted; 6 short branches of rosemary, the same length as the rabbit; salt, freshly ground pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4–5

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from a French Herb Garden

By Geraldene Holt

Published 1999

About

The mountainous Auvergne region of central France has many simple and excellent recipes for cooking game. This way of grilling rabbit works particularly well over a wood fire, but the rabbit can be cooked on a barbecue, or even in the oven, instead.

Ingredients

1 oven-ready rabbit, cut in two lengthwise
8 tablespoons butter, melted
6 short branches

Method

Brush melted butter over a sheet of double thickness foil and lay half the rosemary on it. Brush the rabbit all over with melted butter and season with salt and pepper. Place it on the rosemary and cover with the remaining branches. Gather the foil to enclose the rabbit and rosemary and place the package on a grill or a metal sheet over a wood fire or barbecue.

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