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Beer Basted Rabbit

"Rabbit meat grilled with garlic salt seasoning, basted with beer."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and beer work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Pat the rabbit pieces dry and sprinkle them all over with the garlic salt.

  2. Arrange the rabbit in a baking dish in a single layer, skin side up if it has skin.

  3. Pour about half of one can of beer into the bottom of the dish around the rabbit, not over the top.

  4. Bake for 15 minutes, then open the second can of beer and baste the rabbit with some of it.

  5. Continue baking for about 15 more minutes, basting with the pan liquid and remaining beer every 5 minutes, until the thickest piece reads 160°F (71°C) on an instant-read thermometer.

  6. Let the rabbit rest for 5 minutes before serving, spooning any remaining pan juices over the top.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Rabbit + beertop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Rabbit + meattop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together314 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Rabbit + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together217 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  4. Meat + garlictop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,520 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + beertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, meat, beer):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Rosemaryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, meat, beer. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).