Rabbit stifado. Stifado is truly a classic of Greek cuisine. Most people are familiar with beef stifado but, traditionally, this wonderful dish is made with rabbit or wild hare. In my opinion, the rabbit version is far better than the beef.

I have also created a recipe of You will need some meat. This dish is usually made with hare or domestic rabbit or stewing beef or veal. Sweetened with prunes and studded with pearl onions, this country-style rabbit stew is a home-cooked specialty on Crete. You can cook Rabbit stifado using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Rabbit stifado

It's 1 of rabbit in pieces.
It's 1 kg of baby shallot onions.
Prepare 2 of medium onions.
It's 4 of bay leaves.
You need 4 cloves of garlic.
Prepare of very little rosemary.
You need of allspice.
You need 1 can of diced tomatoes.
It's 1 of little sugar (1/2 tsp).
You need of dry red wine (1/4 cup).
You need of salt.
It's of pepper.
Prepare of pepper grains (4-8).
It's 1/2 bottle of vinegar.

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Rabbit stifado step by step

Marinate the rabbit overnight in a mixture with vinegar and water to which you add the rosemary (very little), 2 bay leaves, 1 onion in slices, 3 crushed cloves of garlic, salt and pepper..
On the next day, sauté 1 onion with a clove of garlic, both finely chopped, in a little olive oil. Add the rabit (after you strain it) and sauté until it gets golden brown..
Add 1 cup water and boil over low heat..
Before the rabbit starts to fall off the bone, using another frying pan, place all the onions (1 kg) together with a crushed clove of garlic and sauté..
Drain them of the excess oil (that you have sautéed them in) and add them to the pot with the rabbit..
That is where you will add 2 more bay leaves, pepper, the grains of pepper, salt, allspice, the tomatoes, a little sugar and the wine..
Simmer until the sauce thickens..
There should be very little water, you don't want a soup....

A super aromtic, yummy traditional Greek stew with rabbit pearl onions and spices called "Stifado"! Rabbit stifado. (Lyndey & Blair's Taste of Greece). Stifado is a dish which has eschalots or very small onions and wine in it. Season rabbit with salt and pepper to taste. Top tip about cooking rabbit too.