Paella is commonly made with rabbit in Spain.

Al-Khwarizmi 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes. In fact, the famous ultra-orthodox traditional paella that Valencians stick to has rabbit. But many other variants do as well. In my family we often eat a simpler version from Murcia with no chicken, but more rabbit, called just "rice with rabbit", and IMHO it's even better (https://okdiario.com/recetas/arroz-conejo-murcia-2538513). The best rice you can have without seafood in it :) And I've always liked fishing for the rabbit's liver.

At one of my ancestral villages in Galicia, rabbit empanada is also a thing, and tastes amazing. But it's seen less and less often because it's messy to eat (it's cooked with bones so you have to open the empanada, remove the bones and close it again) so people tend to use fillings without that problem now. (You can cook it without the bones, there are also areas where they do that, but in that specific area they shun that variant).

	▲	hanslovsky 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		had rabbit paella in a small town outside Valencia. it was so delicious!

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felipeerias 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Rabbits are mainly native to the Iberian Peninsula.

	▲	masklinn 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The european rabbit (and the domesticated rabbit, which descends from it) is native to the Iberian peninsula. There are ~20 extant species called rabbits all over the world (most though not all leporids outside of Lepus, the true hares).
	▲	cowl 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		well they are native almost everywhere but according to legend it was named i-spn-ya (Land of the Rabbits) by the Phoenician although some suggest that SPN could also have meant North instead of rabbits so land of the north.
	▲	telesilla 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		If I recall, the word 'España' or 'Hispania' refers to an old word for 'hyrax', for which rabbit were mistaken for. Could be apocraphyl but it's a nice idea.
	▲	setopt 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Within Europe, you mean? A quick Google suggest there were native rabbits also in the Americas, Asia, and Africa.