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Rabbit Saddle in Parma Ham
Rabbit Saddle in Parma Ham
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Whole Rabbit: Offal-Stuffed Saddle in Parma Ham, Pan Fried Loin, Courgette Flower, Crispy Foreleg, Pea Puree, and Rabbit Sauce. 


Georgia, a junior sous chef who grew up in France and has lived and worked in Spain and Italy, created an Italian-Mediterranean whole rabbit dish. {name}: "There's a lot of Italian in this dish. I'm using the whole rabbit. I'm going to stuff the saddle with the offal, roll it up, wrap it in Parma ham with sage leaves. That's kind of to imitate a bit of a saltimbocca alla Romana. I'm cooking down the leg meat in the pressure cooker and mixing it with some herbs and some preserved lemon to stuff a courgette flower with it. I'm going to deep fry the forelimbs in tempura batter." When asked whether she'd eaten deep fried rabbit foreleg before: {name}: "I had to try it, yeah." {Judge}: "What are they like?" {name}: "Crispy." A judge noted the challenge: {Judge}: "Georgia's got quite a lot of technique and skill going through her dish, but it's the amount of work she's given herself. Once again, it's going to be about timing. There's no fat on a rabbit at all, so you have to be very careful and very delicate in the way you cook it." Georgia: {name}: "I hope that they see I'm trying to be creative with the use of the whole ingredient. And it will probably give people a laugh at home to watch the judges eat some eyeballs." She also noted: {name}: "My mum even said I should have had a few raisins on the plate and pretend I was using the droppings as well. I didn't go that far." The narrator described the finished dish: junior sous chef Georgia's dish was offal-stuffed rabbit saddle wrapped in sage and Parma ham, pan fried rabbit loin, pea puree, fried courgette flower stuffed with rabbit leg meat, deep fried rabbit foreleg topped with a fried rabbit eye, finished with a rabbit sauce.

{Judge}: "Georgia, you've got the saddle with the offal and sage and of course the Parma ham around it. I think that's beautifully made. It hasn't dried out. Using the bones to make your sauce, it's creamy, it's rich. I just find that the sauce with the pea puree sort of becomes one." {Judge}: "When I look at the plate and I see the peas, the courgettes, the courgette flowers and the herbs, it's almost like a rabbit dancing around the kitchen garden and nibbling all the things it shouldn't. And it tastes great. Courgette flower with the stuffed leg in there is delicious. The tempura is well made. Your pea puree has got sweetness to it. Your courgettes are fabulous. I love the little crunchy front legs there. Beautifully cooked." {Judge}: "I like what you've done with all the different components. You managed to make them all taste very different. The eye was a step too far, but you knew that. You can't really taste it. It's just a little nugget of something in batter. But you know what, you can run with a brief. Well done." Georgia advanced straight through to the next round.

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