Sweet-and-sour rabbit with onions and carrots, Sicilian style. Easy recipe.
Sweet-and-sour recipes like Sweet-and-sour chicken with onions or Sicilian-style sweet-and-sour chicken have always been my favorites. When I was a child we used to pick chestnuts on Etna with my uncles and one thing I remember very well from those days: lunchtime! A fixed stop during our autumn outings was lunch at a trattoria — which I don’t know if is still open — but the food was amazing!! My favorite dish as an 8-year-old was the sweet-and-sour rabbit; I loved it and although my mother tried and tried to cook it like they did in that small rustic place, I never found that exact taste. A few days ago, however, I went into the butcher to buy some chicken breast and came out with about 2.2 lbs of rabbit legs; my children had never eaten rabbit because, when I was young, I had adopted a little rabbit and loved it so much that I had erased from my mind the possibility that rabbit could be food… Anyway, the rabbit had been bought and I decided to make it again in the Sicilian sweet-and-sour style, just like I used to eat it as a child, and in the end I recovered that flavor I remembered with nostalgia: “the sweet-and-sour rabbit of Caterina” and “Da zia Caterina” was actually the name of the trattoria I told you about!! Rabbit meat was a pleasant rediscovery for me and a tasty discovery for my kids, and I think I’ll start cooking it again because they really liked it. If you want to try making Sicilian-style sweet-and-sour rabbit, follow me in the kitchen; you’ll see how simple and delicious it is. But first, as always, I remind you that if you want to stay updated on all my other recipes you can follow my Facebook page and my Instagram profile.

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