Help guestimating the weight of a rabbit

ScoobieGirl

Hi,

My News Years Resolution is to use up the contents of my bulging freezer. One of my first finds is some diced rabbit, bought as a bargain some time ago. I have found a lovely sounding recipe for Slow cooked rabbit stew on the Good Food website, but it calls for 2 rabbits, and i have no clue what I should scale the ingredients by. Would 1.5kg per rabbit be a reasonable guess?

I did try googleling, but got a lot of rabbit care results about weight loss in rabbits...

madvixen

Just use the rabbit that you have and keep the rest of the ingredients the same. It may not be the exact recipe but it will still taste yummy.

BitterAndTwisted

It's at times like this when you have to make an educated guess. God only knows how big that bag of diced rabbit is: 500 grammes or a kilo and a half? I have no idea how much an average adult whole bunny might weight, maybe a kilo and how much of that would be the bones? I dunno. To be honest I'd be looking for a recipe which called for diced rabbit-meat rather than whole ones.

HappyMJ

That's a very heavy rabbit. They are about half that. You don't need to be too accurate with recipes. You'll see if there is enough meat or not.

A serving of meat should be at least 85 grams (3 ounce) per person as a minimum. I'm a little greedy and go for 115 grams (4 ounce- quarter pound). A person might be happy with 170 grams (6 ounce) and a really really hungry person might have up to 225 grams of meat (8 ounce) which is half a pound of meat twice as much as a McDonald's quarter pounder.

Nicki

I'd try with the original quantities of the recipe, and if when you add the rabbit to the wetter ingredients to pop in the oven, it all looks a bit dry, just top up with more of the wet ingredients and some extra seasoning. If there doesn't seem to be quite enough rabbit on the other hand, just cook the stew as normal and either thicken the liquid at the end or just don't put it all on the plate.

ScoobieGirl

Thanks for all the tips. I'm now confident enough I should be able to manage something at least edible, and hopefully delicious now!

valk_scot

I would estimate about 500g of diced rabbit from one whole rabbit, roughly. Depends on the size of the rabbit, really! If you've got less, mushrooms are nice in most rabbit based stews, they pick up the rich flavours of the sauce.

garybarlowsbeard

Ah, disappointed, was hoping this was a new idea for a seaside game "Step right up, I'll guess the weight of your rabbit and if I dont you win...a rabbit".

Living_proof

You step on bathroom scales and note weight (eeek!) and then step on with rabbit meat. The difference is the weight of the rabbit.

PixieDust

I'd guess at about 500 grammes tops....much of rabbit weight is fur and bones

krlyr

I don't think OP needs to know the weight of what she's got (presumably it's on the packet) but how much the recipe means by "two rabbits", i.e. has she only got half as much rabbit so needs to half the rabbit.
I buy whole rabbits (wild shot) for my dogs and they weigh roughly around a kilo, or just over, unless they're particularly small or large. Once the fur and bones were removed I imagine 500g of usable meat, but you'd probably get more from a farmed rabbit
Maybe call a butcher and ask?
Ah - just remembered some dog raw-feeders buy from this place
http://www.woldsway.co.uk/
On the wild rabbit page they do a whole rabbit in 6 portions - bone-in, typically 0.9-1kg, including offal. So a single rabbit, just meat, is probably not far off 500-600g or so