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Ingredients: half rabbit; 3 star anise; 2 spoons of light soy sauce; 8 dried chili peppers; 1 spoon of dark soy sauce; 3 bay leaves; 10 grams of salt ; 5 slices of ginger; 10 cloves of garlic; 1 spoon of oyster sauce; 6 green chili peppers; 1 spoon of cooking wine; about 15 peppercorns; 2 tsp of chicken essence; 5 kaempferols

How to cook braised rabbit meat?

1. Add a spoonful of cooking wine to the rabbit meat, marinate with appropriate amount of salt for half an hour, then rinse and drain and set aside.

2. Prepare various ingredients

3. One spoon of dark soy sauce, 2 spoons of light soy sauce

4. One spoon of oyster sauce

5. Cut the lotus root and soak it in water (it is best to use a large lotus root cut into dices or a small hob to cut seasonal green bamboo shoots)

6. Put appropriate amount of rapeseed oil in the pot

7. Put the rabbit meat into the pot and stir-fry over high heat until the rabbit meat shrinks. Then add star anise, kaempferol, dried chili pepper, ginger slices, Sichuan peppercorns and bean paste and stir-fry for 3 minutes until fragrant.

8. Add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and oyster sauce and stir-fry over high heat for 2 minutes.

9. Boil a pot of boiling water in advance to cover the rabbit meat. Simmer over low heat until the rabbit meat is cooked.

10. Add garlic and simmer for 2 minutes, then add green pepper and lotus root and stir-fry for 3 minutes (the cooking time will be determined based on your preference for the softness and hardness of the lotus root). Finally, add chicken essence and stir-fry.

11. Sprinkle with chopped green onion or coriander as appropriate