Tasty meat, combined with fresh seasonal vegetables, and flavourful herbs and spices? Must be The Rabbit.

Rabbit is an ideal alternative to chicken. The meat is tender, juicy and just a little stronger in flavour. In fact, you don’t the like the idea of cooking rabbit, a good free range chicken will do in this recipe just as well.

Either way, for a healthy, light meal, just get yer yarr on!

Guristas Casserole

INGREDIENTS

• 1 medium rabbit (2 – 2 1/2 lbs), cut into roughly eight equal pieces
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 4 cloves of garlic, chopped
• 2 medium carrots, sliced
• 1 eggplant, roughly chopped
• 2 large mushrooms, thickly sliced
• 1 large tomato, chopped
• 4 oz fresh peas
• 3 stalks of celery with leaves kept separately(chopped)
• 1 three inch stick of cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp of chilli flakes
• 3 or 4 bay leaves
• 1/2 a bottle of dry white wine
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

METHOD

1. Brown the rabbit in the olive oil, then remove from pan and set aside.
2. Add the onion, garlic, mushrooms, carrots, eggplant to pan, and brown.
3. Add rabbit, wine, herbs, bay leaves and cinnamon.
4. Cook covered for 20 minutes.
5. Add tomato, peas and chopped celery leaves.
6. Cook covered for a further 10 minutes.

SERVINGS

4 hungry anti-pirate capsuleers.