bunny burgers help?

[Ian Wright]

Hi folks,
I'm trying to find a recipe for bunny bugers going ferrierting sometime next week and would like to know has anyone made them.anyone got a simpil recipe for them?
Thanks,

[Hobbitfeet]

As rabbit have so little fat in them, I tend to mix the rabbit meat with 30 to 40% pork shoulder and the usual additives, rusk, rosemary, black pepper and a little salt.

[welsh wizard]

Hi Ian

I have not made pure bunny burgers but have made game burgers with bunny in. I used some of Franco's game mix for the burgers and although it was a little salty, it was OK.

I tend to use a lot of thyme in my game sausage, pie of burger preperation but like a lot of people I tend to go on eye rather than measure things out, which is no good if you want to pass a recipe on but in essence I use Thyme, garlic, mustard seed and a dried fruit such as cranberries. I use some breadcrumb and bind with egg. As HF has just said you will need a good proportion of fat as bunnies as well as all other game is really void of fat so needs to be replaced - or of course have a very dry product!

Cheers WW

[Ian Wright]

Cheers for that info WW just a newbe to the game looking for all the help and advice that i can get. after all every days a school day on the sausage making game . any info on venison burgers and sausages i can get loads of the stuff as i do a fair bit of stalking ?

[welsh wizard]

Hi Ian

If you hae a look via the "search" section you will find a number of recipies for venision sausage and burgers. If you want to try a std mix, then Francos game mix is good (albeit a little salty for my taste) and you can use that as a base and add your own bits as you go along.

I tend to make up a large batch of sausage mix and make some into burgers and stuff the rest into the relevant casings. My personal preference is to add fruit because of the richness of the game and to add fat as HF suggusted to take away the dryness. Alcohol is good in venision sausage as well. I have in the past used port (when on special offer) as the 10% liquid needed to soak into the rusk to provide me with a game or venision and port sausage. Which was very nice.

Expermintation is the name of the game and if like me you have a good route to game then you can experiment till the pigs come home.

Anyway have a look through the forum there is a LOT of excellent advice out there.

Cheers WW