Pan-fried rabbit alla cacciatora with bell peppers and olives

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A delicious pan-fried rabbit alla cacciatora with bell peppers and olives, easy to prepare, scented with fresh herbs and cooked in white wine for a truly special flavor. If the rabbit is home-reared it’s even better. A typical Calabrian recipe, the rabbit alla cacciatora cooked in a pan with peppers and crushed olives that have a special taste and give this fine white meat an exquisite flavor. The perfect main course to make at Easter. As a girl I used to go pick grass for our rabbits; we had up to 200 of them, so rabbit was never missing from our table. Meat wasn’t eaten every day like now, but when it was, it was home produced — rabbits, chickens, turkeys, pigs, and also lambs and calves. That’s how I learned to appreciate good meat and to cook it. Rabbit has particularly flavorful meat and with lots of practice and the tips from my grandmother and my mother I learned to cook it in the best way to enhance the taste without making it too strong. I like to cook it with white wine as my mother taught me; the flavor becomes more delicate this way, delicious on its own, but with peppers and olives it becomes special. Try it yourself — I’m sure you’ll love it too.

quick rabbit recipe in a pan
  • Difficulty: Very easy
  • Cost: Medium
  • Preparation time: 10 Minutes
  • Portions: 4
  • Cooking methods: Stovetop, Slow cooking
  • Cuisine: Italian
  • Seasonality: All seasons, Easter

Ingredients for pan-fried rabbit with bell peppers and olives

  • 2.2 lbs rabbit
  • 2 yellow bell peppers
  • 1 jar crushed olives (Taggiasca or Leccino)
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 sprig rosemary
  • 2 leaves bay leaf
  • 1 glass white wine
  • to taste salt

Tools

  • 1 Pan
  • 1 Cutting board
  • 1 Knife
  • 1 Wooden spoon

Steps to prepare pan-fried rabbit with bell peppers and olives

  • Put a drizzle of olive oil in a pan, add a chili pepper if you like, one clove of garlic, a bay leaf and a sprig of rosemary. Heat the oil and add the rabbit cut into pieces, previously washed and dried.

  • Let the rabbit brown over high heat, turn it, then salt and add a glass of white wine. Cover, reduce the heat and cook for about 40 minutes.

  • Meanwhile, cut the two bell peppers into strips. After the 40 minutes, add them to the rabbit along with the olives, cover and continue cooking for another 20 minutes.

  • If it is too dry at the end of cooking, loosen it with a splash of water.

  • When the rabbit is tender, you can serve our delicious rabbit alla cacciatora with olives and bell peppers.

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