Bat Soup Recipe

Ingredients


  • 3 – 4 live fruit bats, well washed but neither skinned nor eviscerated
  • water
  • 1 Tbsp. Finely sliced fresh ginger
  • 1 LARGE onion, quartered
  • garlic and lots of it !!!
  • sea salt to taste
  • Chopped scallions
  • soy sauce and coconut milk / cream
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How to make it


  • Place the bats (still alive) 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.