Name: Saffron Rabbit Stew with Cucumbers (Lapin Sauté à la Toucassaine)
Yield: Servings: 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 rabbit, cut up for sautéing; ¼ cup butter; 1 handful fresh basil leaves (and buds and flowers, if in flower); Salt; 3 tablespoons olive oil; Salt, pepper; ⅛ to ¼ teaspoon powdered saffron (to taste); Small pinch cayenne; 1 mounded tablespoon flour; 1½ cups dry white wine; 5 or 6 cloves garlic, unpeeled; Water; 1 large onion (about 4 ounces), coarsely chopped; 1 large, firm ripe tomato (5 to 6 ounces), peeled, seeded, coarsely chopped (or equivalent of seeded and drained preserved tomatoes); 1 pound firm fresh cucumbers (small with undeveloped seeds, if possible); ½ teaspoon sugar; The rabbit’s liver

Preparation info

Servings:
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simple French Food

By Richard Olney

Published 1974

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Ingredients

1 rabbit, cut up for sautéing
Salt
3 tablespoons olive oil
1

Method

Use a large, heavy plat à sauter. Lacking that, begin in a large skillet, transferring everything to a casserole at the time of moistening.

Salt the pieces of rabbit and color them in the hot olive oil, adjusting the flame to medium after a couple of minutes. Add the onion and the garlic cloves immediately after turning the rabbit pieces over, shifting rabbit and onions regularly

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