Bat Soup
From lor 17 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 4
This one's for Orangeskipper!!! Hope you like it ;-) The following is a genuine recipe from Micronesia. Fruit bats, or flying foxes, are furry, fruit and nectar eating bats about the size of small rabbits. They make very affectionate pets. Read more Hmmmm, I'm not rushing out to find one. See less
Ingredients
- 3 - 4 fruit bats, well washed but neither skinned nor eviscerated shopping list
- water shopping list
- 1 Tbsp. Finely sliced fresh ginger shopping list
- 1 LARGE onion, quartered shopping list
- garlic and lots of it !!! shopping list
- sea salt to taste shopping list
- Chopped scallions shopping list
- soy sauce and coconut milk / cream shopping list
- Note: Don't forget to click on the pic ;-) shopping list
How to make it
- Place the bats in a large kettle and add water to cover, ginger, onion, garlic and salt.
- Bring to a boil and cook for 60 minutes.
- Strain broth into a second kettle.
- Take the bats, skin them and discard the skin.
- Remove meat from the bones and return meat, and any of the viscera you fancy, to the broth.
- Heat.
- Serve liberally sprinkled with scallions and further seasoned with soy sauce and/or coconut cream.
- Makes 4 servings.
- (From "The New York Times Natural Foods Cookbook" by Jean Hewitt (c) 1971, Quadrangle Books, Inc. NY.
- NOTE: A final word about the Jean Hewitt cookbook. It is now out of print.
The Rating
Reviewed by 24 people-
Oh, Lor. I could never eat this stuff, coconut milk just does not agree with me!
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HOLY MOLY, LOR GIRL!! I love it!!LOL
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Hahahaha... this is too much and I never thought I'd see a recipe such as this one here. I got the biggest charge out of reading Bat Soup. You are hilarious! 5 from me
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