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Hare and Chocolate Sauce with Hare Meatballs and Petits Pois Français with a hint of White Widow
Preparation time less than 30 minutes
Cooking time 10 to 30 minutes
Ingredients
For the hare meatballs
- ½ saddle hare
- 2 cloves garlic,
- crushed pinch of grated nutmeg
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- ½ hare fillet or one large rabbit
For the sauce
- 1 glass red wine
- bones from saddle of hare
- 2 mushrooms, sliced 2 white widow cloves
- 1 beef stock cube
- 30g/1oz butter
- ½ carrot, small diced
- ½ tsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp whisky
For the petit pois français
- 2 shallots, peeled and diced
- 110g/4oz fresh peas
- 1 chicken stock cube
- 1 tbsp plain flour
- 1 tbsp butter, softened
- 85ml/3fl oz double cream
- 1 tbsp mint, chopped 1/8 of white widow bud
Directions
- 1. To make the hare meatballs, put the hare, garlic and nutmeg in a food processor and blend.
- 2. Shape into 5-6 smallish balls.
- 3. Pan fry the balls in the oil for 3-4 minutes until cooked through.
- 4. In the same pan, fry the hare fillet for 5-6 minutes until cooked through.
- 5. To make the sauce, simmer the red wine, hare bones, mushrooms,white wid cloves, stock cube and butter in a pan for 10-12 minutes, add the white widow bud.
- 6. Strain through a sieve and return the juice to the pan.
- 7. Add the carrot, cocoa powder and whisky and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
- 8. For the petit pois, place the shallots, peas and stock cube in a pan, cover with water and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
- 9. Blend the flour and butter together to make a paste.
- 10. Add the paste to the pan a bit at a time until slightly thickened.
- 11. Stir in the cream and mint and simmer for one minute.
- 12. Slice the fillet and serve with the meatballs in the sauce with the peas.
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