Rabbit Terrine With Pickled Walnuts Food

PHEASANT AND PICKLED WALNUT TERRINE

Steps:

• Remove the meat from the pheasant. Chop into small pieces and marinate in the red vermouth overnight. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a terrine mold with bacon. Drain the pheasant meat and arrange half in the mold. Season with salt and pepper. Put a layer of walnuts on top and fill the rest of the mold with the pheasant. Season. Cover with bacon. Set the mold in a bain marie and cook in the preheated oven 45 minutes. When cooked, ease the terrine away from sides of the mold and leave to cool in the mold. Turn out for serving.

HASSENPFEFFER (PICKLED RABBIT)

Steps:

• Place cut up rabbit in a large bowl or crock and cover with marinade of equal parts water and vinegar, the onion, salt, pepper, cloves and bay leaves.
• Cover the bowl or crock and let marinade in a cool/cold place for two days.
• Remove rabbit pieces and dry each piece.
• Melt butter in a Dutch oven or heavy skillet and slowly brown rabbit, turning it often.
• Gradually add some of the marinade sauce, about 1/2 cup each time, and simmer with a lid on it until it is tender.
• Add sour cream just before serving.