Can You Eat A Jackrabbit? Catch And Cook/ Dutch Oven Recipe 

This video brings me back to when I was a little girl and it was my first time in Mexico. My grandpa shot a rabbit in the forest and we had rabbit soup for dinner. Wish I could go back to visit him and ride his horse while picking berries and hunting with him.

Nice! Anytime I hear people say they wouldn't eat jackrabbit I always reply "then you cave never had my carnitas-style jackrabbit tortas!" It can be a very good meat source, quite tasty and has been on Indigenous menu for thousands of generations for a reason.

Always great to watch your adventures instead of browsing Netflix for an hour! Entertaining and insightful as usual!

I really like your videos. The music, camera work, and content. It's both relaxing, and fun. Everything is presented very well.

Man that’s one hardy meal. Your videos are so therapeutic James!!

Favorite recipe by far would be Rabbit Frickacee like my great grandmother used to make . When my uncles would go hunting for Rabbit 🐇 they would bring several back Recipe called for 3 large jacks or 4 medium. Clean and rinse rabbits then chunk them up and par boil them to soften them Drain in a colander pat dry , salt and pepper the pieces then dip into a cup and a half of buttermilk mixed with two eggs add hot sauce and cayenne if you like it spicy. Dredge in flour and spice mixture to coat the Rabbit well and set pieces off to the side to rest while you cut up two large onions into thin rings place the onions in a pan with bacon grease to soften and caramelize. Fill a deep pan with crisco ( blue can ) About three inches deep. Fry rabbit until evenly brown and drain on paper towels. After frying the Rabbit pour off the grease but keep about four table spoons of the grease in the bottom of the pan . Add all purpose flour to make a slurry and cook it till it just turns tan then put onions into slurry mix well ans season with salt and pepper to taste. Then pour enough milk in mixture to thin it out and stir it constantly scraping the bottom so it doesn't burn . Keep adding milk if it thickens too much. (Cold milk won't lump up the gravy) when the gravy is to your liking put fried Rabbit in a large casserole dish and cover it with the gravy and onion mixture. Cover with aluminum foil or a glass lid and bake it at 375 f for about 35 min . Make garlic bread or cheese Texas toast and serve with fresh sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, corn on the cob ,and mixed greens of your choice. I like turnip greens 😋. Cold beverage of your choice would work but traditionally we had hot coffee with it. Man o man what a feast .

Looking mighty delicious. Go ahead and dish me up a bowl. Gracias Hombre.🐇

I love rabbit! Grew up poor ate a lot of rabbits and home grown vegetables!

This was your 1st. Jack, I can promise you it tastes good because you cooked it right but mostly it was a young Jack. Stay away from old ones with spit years and check it's liver for a clean solid red. I've been eating Jack's for over a decade. Great video I'm going to try your recipe on my next hunt.

Your video's are so relaxing and enjoyable.

Very nice looking dish out in the bush well done James love your videos!

Excellent teaching James keep up the good work.

Jack rabbit is a very frowned upon meat. But if harvested and prepared correctly its absolutely delicious. You did a great job on this cook video! Yeehaa!!

Look up some of the Appalachian squirrel recipes, like squirrel gravy...Jacks and squirrels are quite similar in texture and fat content...

When you are hungry food is always very tasty.

Mashed potato flakes work great for thickening stews,I personally like mine just cook over a fire, but James this stew looks amazingly delicious. Maybe u can make rabbit taco's James,might be better then pork.

Nicely done. Looked delicious.

My Sister used to make Empanadas with Jackrabbit , really delicious.

I’ve never eaten jackrabbit, I used to see jackrabbits by the hundreds. I have not seen one in years? I have only eaten maybe two cottontails just battered and fried them like chicken. That stew look very tasty 👍

Very Nice Tranquil Video. Omg. Looks so Tasty😋.

This looks good! You can also try adding flour when making stews to thicken it up to avoid having/needing to smash the potatoes. I'd probably add some carrots and some cilantro for added flavor. Happy hunting!

ive ate a bunch of cottontails but never a jackrabbit. I'll have to add this to my bucket list. thanks for sharing......keep up the good work!

At Puerto Rico we add a beer to the supper, to everything we call fricase

Thanks for this cool video, I want to try that stew style someday. Last time I ate jack rabbit was a few years ago while me and my homie were hunting. We took down a jack rabbit and marinated the back straps over night. Then we cooked them on a makeshift rock stove since we forgot the grill. Then we put it in between two pieces of cheese bread that we toasted on the rock. Added some veggies and bbq sauce and went for it 😎🤙

Heck yesss. We do it all the time here in Idaho. The backstraps are the best. Nice little steaks.

I cook mine the same except I add cabbage…great video

That looks 👌 🔥

to make the gravy thicker put 2 TS flour, my grandma showed me that trick.

Im really glad that turned out Great. I didnt cook mine in a stew and Mine was an Mature Jack. Im sure all the spices helped..

Excellent video - thanks!

Great instructional video James. I must try Jackrabbit. Like you mentioned, I've stayed away from Jackrabbit because of old folklore and old wives' tales, but you made this look delicious.

my first time cooking rabbit i let it cook in a crock pot for 2:30 hours and the meat fell from the bones and then i put my other stew stuff in. best tasting meal ive ever made tbh.

One Green Year in New Mexico. Great video

Mighty fine eats!

You do a great job, makes me wish I was younger

You should check out some of the camping spots just outside of Cloudcroft NM! Take the Sun Spot Hwy. and just choose a camp area they are all beautiful! We try to tent camp as many times a year as possible!

Chicken fried, might have to marinate that jack rabbit in some butter milk for a day or two though. Looked delicious,( a bit on the zippy side🤣) very nice my friends 🤠

Yum

That looks truly amazing. I'll have to try it. My favorite rabbit recipe is very similar to your recipe, rabbit and andoullie gumbo. Instead of using potatoes I make a roux with flour and peanut oil and saute the onion, celery and peppers (Cajun Holy Trinity) in the roux separately. The roux thickens the stock wonderfully when you combine it. I also quarter up the rabbit and brown the meat in bacon drippings before adding the stock to boil it, so you kinda cook it twice and it breaks down the texture perfectly. Add the meat and stock to the roux and you are in business! Let it simmer low and slow until the meat is falling off the bone. Sometimes I add Rotelle tomatoes because I like them so much. I used to raise rabbits for meat and I love rabbit!

Great video! No jackrabbits here, but I’ll try that with cottontails.

great background music

Wow that looks delicious 😋

_oh yes, as I posted on one of your fb posts that I just had a rabbit stew a few days ago. I decided I can't eat supermarket meat anymore and I found a local place that delivers wild, hunted game. (My health doesn't allow me to go fetch my own although I have in the past) holy moly! Venison, wild boar, pheasant, rabbit, squirrels, mallard. All so much better than what I was eating and sustainable and ethical too. So good and really pretty much the same cost_

Nicely done.

Cooked is my favorite 😁😁😁

Man you make us hungry!

I have never eaten a whole rabbit before but ive eaten rabbit burger. Maybe you should try that. Ground a jackrabbit at home and turn it into patties and make a simple burger or a recipe that has ground rabbit inside

Damn i WISH i was there with you!!!!!! AWESOME VIDS BROTHER!! I would love that stew!!!! Thank you!

Here in the desert around Vegas they are plentiful but you should pressure cook them due to worms

I like your catch and cooks 👍

This is some good stuff! I hope you publish on RUMBLE too, incase PETA tries to get you canceled.

I could listen to that melody always and forever, so haunting and it touches my soul, thank you Cuervo. Thank you for the video, James, I have eaten a lot of cottontail but not a jack rabbit, will try it sometime. Not this weekend, I am camping in a state park and I think they wouldn't let me get away with it. Dark thirty and the owl says shut eye time, sweet dreams y'all.

Nice

Nice job. Looks real good. 👍

Man that looked so good.

Great vid!!🤟😎👍Should of marinated it. Jackrabbit is delicious if made correctly

Awesome! Looks tasty! I have to admit that clip of you skinning the rabbit with that huge knife looked pretty funny. Rabbits have really loose skin, so once you make your first cuts you just pull and it comes right off: that knife wasn't doing anything

Im late to the party aint I

I came across your channel about a month ago love the videos we ought to do some hunting in az I think it'd be awesome keepem coming tho brother!

Smells great lol save me a bite 👍🏾

Wow, I reckon I could almost smell that stew through the screen! Nice to see you in a place that's so alive and green, everything is yellow and brown out in my neck of the woods 😂

Nice show and tell there JY🦊 my grandpa smoked a rabbit 🐇 it was good I was a young boy 👦🏼 then wish I could do it like he did 🐇🔥🪵👍👌✌️🫡🇺🇸

i myself am a mushroom hunter i do hunt on occasion barley though that looks amazing but if you ever go in winter look for mexican boletes!

Un consejo amigo la liebre tiene muy poca grasa la proxima vez comienza friendo el chorizo despues la verduras y la liebre hasta casi acabada la coccion y para el final las hierbas aromaticas ....Nice video

I’ve seen jackrabbits so big when hunting whitetail 🦌. From a distance I thought they were yearling deer. All this was within 40 miles from San Antonio. 🇺🇸👨🏻‍🦼🪖🙏

James, that stew looks great 👍 👌 and I wish I could be there to try some of that stew. I was wondering 🤔 at some point you could try deer or elk hunting while bushcrafting. That would definitely be an awesome video, brother. Great work.

I’m starving now.

Needed this video today. #internalpeace

I was just talking about these (jackrabbits) yesterday... Theyre everywhere here in AZ. I'm curious how it taste. Even more so after watching this. Looks delicious! Have to think of a good way to catch one now.🤔

Looked good and I enjoy your cooking episodes! Only thing I would of done different would of been to cut up the rabbit a bit more before cooking.

Looks really good bro, I haven't had rabbit since I was a kid, I bet some hatch green Chile would work perfect in rabbit stew. I'm from New Mexico and I need to get out and do some fishing and camping. (Get my boots dirty).

looks like paneras soup withe the asiago cheese bread

Great video, rabbit is a really good meal. I use it in any recipe that calls for chicken. Looks amazing!!

IM EFFIN HUNGRY FOR JACK RABBIT 🐇🐇🐇🍽🍽🍽👍👍👍

Have you ever tried packrat? I think I heard you mention it on another video. I thought it tasted GREAT! Just wondering what you thought if you have.

Your knife cuts like crazy!!! I know it's soft food, but believe me, I know when a knife cuts,sliced like that, is perfectly made and not like most knives knowdays, where most people praise, when in reality are very poorly designed and their performance sucks. Good job on the design, and my kudos to the maker, he did a hell of job!!!

What knife are you using? Its a very beautiful knife :) great video btw, been a while since I saw anyone cooked rabbit and yours looked delicious!

Warm does the cookbook come out 🥸💞👵

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Good job. I can enjoy a little rabbit to substitute for chicken in any dish.

I bet your stew is quite spicy, I love spicy peppers and often put them into soup when is ready. I think the heat magnify the spicy flavor. Looks yummy but never eaten wild rabbit myself

Should have added some apple cider vinegar to the boil. Like just a 3 Tablespoons. It will change the meat and blow your mind.

Hi James, thanks for the recipe. Here in Calif rabbit season for jackrabbit is year round. Cottontail and all other types are July to first Sunday in January, Someone told me that not to eat jackrabbit till after first frost due to parasites in rabbit. Is this true or do you have any other info? If I am in survival mode I need know what is true.

This one is for your viewers that are in their 50’s. Cook, where’s my Hasenpfeffer!!!!

I'm hungry now

That's a great looking stew. I've never had rabbit before. Cheers, James! 👍👍✌️

Hey James have you try putting gaming meats in a salt brine?

Stardust has some real heavy Mark Knopfler vibes to it

I want some rabbit now...

Hi

Rabbit and dumplings, stewed, or chicken fried rabbit.

Soak overnight in salt water and that will get rid of gamey taste.

One tuff dude jalapeño peppers without taking seeds outs. Then Cajun sausage and cayenne pepper 🥵. Being a yankee it’s way to hot for me. 🇺🇸👨🏻‍🦼🪖🙏

Pioneers would not waste a bullet on a cottontail. The jackrabbit would provide 3 times the meat for that same bullet.

I wanted to ask you if you removed the "piojo" from the hind legs when you skinned and cleaned that jack rabbit. That's the source of some bad smelling "musk" that makes those not very good eating unless prepared correctly. It could also be that this was a young jack rabbit. I half expected it to not taste good but I am glad it did.

What time of year did you kill the Jack ?

Always heard you should only eat Jack rabbits in the colder months due to parasites?!

I've never been able to get jackrabbit right. It's so stringy. I've never tried a nice young rabbit though

Holy smokes how many people are you feeding?!!

Oh Yeah, That's how my family cook rabbit.. take the gaming out , its good meat, just watch out diseases when hunting rabbits in the wild. its like older days.