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
- Note: Don’t forget to click on the pic 😉
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.