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Rabbit with Almonds

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Fred Plotkin

Published 1997

  • About

This recipe comes from the Ristorante Dâ Casetta in Borgio Verezzi in the province of Savona, and is wonderfully delicious. Rabbit abounds in the Ponente and is popular in the local cuisine. Here is a fine preparation. (If rabbit is unavailable, chicken may be substituted, although this will yield a different result.)

Ingredients

  • 1 cleaned rabbit, approximately 3 pounds/1.3 kilos, reserve the liver

Method

Ask your butcher to clean the rabbit for you, reserve the liver, discard the head, and cut the rabbit into 18 pieces (with the bone still attached). When you get the rabbit home, rinse the pieces well in cold water and let them drain in a colander. While the rabbit is draining, pound garlic, rosemary, thyme, parsley, nutmeg, salt, and pepper together in a mortar and set aside. Place the rabbit