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the_explorer_upon_nature — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:29:00 GMT

Ingredients
Onions Oil
Parsley
Curry Powder
Turmeric Powder
Salt
Garlic
Ginger
three Potatoes
soya sauce
thyme
Tomato sauce/ paste
Vinegar
2 Fruit Bat
Glass of water
Casuarinas Leave/ Powder/bark

How to prepare this recipe
Preparation
• Cut the bats into small pieces
• Put it in a bowl let it soak with a glass of water, salt and vinegar for 3 hours
• Peel the potatoes and onions cut into small cubic pieces
• Grate the ginger and garlic
Cooking
• Drain the bat meat and wash to remove the vinegar inside
• Warm a pan with oil on low heat
• Add 4 spoon of curry powder and 2 spoon of turmeric Powder
• Turn the powder for one minute
• Add the onions, ginger, garlic and Potatoes
• Add the bat to the pan and turn for a minute
• Add the tomato paste and soya sauce and turn
• Add a glass of water, cover it, turn on the heat and let it cook for 10 minutes
• Add the parsley, thyme and a little casuarina leave or powder
• Season to taste and remove from heat

Serve with white rice and pumpkin chutney

The story behind this recipe
Around 28 years ago, an incident happen while I was on school holiday at my aunt’s place. I was 7 years old. My two cousins had put nest in some mango trees to catch bats. I did not know at that time that people eat fruit bats. In around half an hour they had finished bringing the nest down and I saw them removing the bats from the nets and hitting them on the head with a small stick. They asked me if I will eat them after he finished cooking and I said I will never ever eat one of them. When I was 15 yrs old my Father was at home and he was cooking dinner for the family. After he finished we sat and eat. I eat a different meat at the table that day and I did not know what. I thought it was a usual dish. To my surprise later my father said you just eat bat and I thought ‘oh my god was it that good!! I’m not supposed to eat this.’ But I find myself eating more. That was the first time I eat fruit bat and since then I have enjoy anything new on my dad menus and I start learning how to cook food from him.

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the_explorer_upon_nature — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:17:37 GMT

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Photos: Passport & Plate - Fruit Bat Curry

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