about 400g rabbit joints (or 250-300g diced rabbit meat)
3 tbsp plain flour, plus a little extra for dusting
2 tbsp sunflower oil
1 small-ish leek, finely sliced
1 tsp fennel seed
150ml medium cider
500ml chicken stock
4 tbsp double cream
1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
1 sheet ready-rolled shortcrust pastry (all-butter has the best flavour) - if you don't want to lattice the top of your pie, just use ½ a sheet
1 egg, beaten, for glazing
To Serve
140g baby carrots
140g radishes
140g peas
25g butter, diced
few pinches of sugar
Method
Hurl the rabbit joints (or diced meat) with a large portion of the flour and some flavoring. Warmth a large portion of the oil in a flameproof meal dish and chestnut the meat on all sides. Lift out the meat, include the remaining oil, the leek and fennel seeds, and broil delicately until relaxed. Mix in the remaining flour until it has vanished. Include the juice and scratch up any stuck bits on the dish as it goes to the bubble, then include the stock, give back the meat to the dish, and convey to a stew.
Cover and cook for 40-45 mins until the rabbit is truly delicate and tumbling from the bone. Lift out the meat and, while you're destroying it from the bones in huge lumps (on the off chance that you've utilized joints), come down the cooking fluid to around a third.
Mix the cream and mustard into the fluid, taste for flavoring, then mix the rabbit back in. Spoon into a little pie dish or preparing dish.
Heat stove to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Stick a slender portion of baked good around the edge of the dish. Cut the remaining baked good into expansive strips with a floured blade, then weave into a tight cross section. Lift up painstakingly, utilizing a moving pin to help you, then stick on with somewhat beaten egg. Trim the edges to wrap up. Brush the top with more egg and heat for 25 mins until brilliant.
In the interim, convey a pan of salted water to the bubble. Include the carrots for 2 mins, then the radishes for 2 mins, trailed by the peas for 1 min. Channel. At the point when the pie is done, melt the margarine in a little griddle. Include the depleted veg with the sugar, turn up the warmth and sear to caramelize a bit. Serve promptly close by the pie.