Iguana or monitor lizard curry
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Some old timer WO during my NS told me once before that he knows how to prepare iguana curry and that it is very tasty to eat. He supposedly had cooked it for his platoon mates. Anyone knows where to eat it or what
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TAHTS DIGUSTING!!!! WHY DONT U TRY HOUSE LIZARD TOSE BIG MUTHAS
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hous elizard is poisonous. f u dunt beleive me try asking some old timers they will say Iguana can be eaten.
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CSMNews story (http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0310/p15s02-lifo.html)
How do you like your iguana?
By Kelly Hearn | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON – On a blustery afternoon, a delivery truck creeps through a cluster of ethnic food warehouses in northeast Washington and parks by the section of dock belonging to Distribuidora Cuscatlan, an importer of foods from El Salvador.
Frank Rodriguez, Cuscatlan's manager, walks past crates of rice before stepping into a gargantuan stainless-steel freezer. He opens a box that contains what many consider a culinary delicacy - iguana.
For centuries, iguana has been consumed throughout Central America; now it's showing up on a small but growing number of North American dinner tables.
But El Salvadoran entrepreneurs and US businessmen like Mr. Rodriguez - who supplies iguana to 60 markets in the Washington area - are doing more than providing a fondly remembered "taste of home" for Latinos now living in the US.
The budding market is also improving life in El Salvador. Raising iguanas on farms for export provides much-needed jobs, and it allows food to be grown while keeping the tropical rain forest intact. The industry even aids in rebuilding wild iguana populations, since many iguana farms periodically release part of their stock into the wild.
The increasing availability of iguana meat is due to several factors, including its reputation among Central Americans as a cure-all for everything from colds to poor sexual performance.
"People believe iguana meat does many things," says Alicia Chicas, a Salvadoran immigrant who manages a small market in southern Maryland. "That's why they are willing to pay."
Ms. Chicas thinks that one reason iguana has become easier to obtain in the US is that the Salvadoran community here has become wealthier over the years and able to afford it.
The meat is said to have a taste similar to chicken, but a bit stronger and tougher. At $14 a pound (retail), or about $50 for the average purchase, it isn't for ordinary suppers. Still, "the demand for them is higher than we can provide," Rodriguez says.
Iguanas live principally on fruits, flowers, and leaves. Once abundant through many parts of Central America, the tropical lizard's populations have suffered from overhunting and habitat destruction, causing the Salvadoran government, among others, to clamp down on hunting them.
That's where iguana farms can help. Instead of reducing the wild population, ranchers take advantage of the fact that the reptiles typically live 40 to 50 feet above the ground in rain forests. Farms hatch iguanas from eggs, grow them in a controlled environment for seven months, and then release them into forested areas on the farm. That way, local residents don't have to cut down trees to raise food.
El Salvador's main iguana ranch is in Zacatecoluca, a city of about 30,000 people located in the south-central part of the country. It, like other places, exports both the meat of garrobos (dark-skinned male lizards) and iguanas (green-skinned females), which can now be found next to chorizos and papusas in ethnic stores in the US.
A consistent demand for the meat might spawn a healthy micro-livestock industry in El Salvador that could breed jobs, says René Antonio León RodrÃguez, the country's ambassador to the US, in a phone interview. Ambassador León hopes that iguana will join the ranks of ostrich, emu, and bison, other alternative meats vying for an increasing share of Americans' food dollars.
"It's good for your body, it's good for business, and it's good for the environment," he says.
While businesses are beefing up operations to meet what they hope is an expanding North American market, their eyes are also fixed on Asian markets, where consumers accustomed to eating snake wouldn't think twice about sinking their teeth into a garrobo.
"I talked to store owners who told me they sold out of iguana after a newspaper article came out about iguana meat," says León. "But it wasn't people from El Salvador who bought them out. It was Asians."
Iguana entrepreneurs are looking beyond Asia, though, and even beyond markets for frozen meat. León notes that some Salvadoran businesspeople are taking on the hard task of perfecting recipes for canned iguana soup, "which must be made by hand and with a lot of effort."
For this reason, he adds, demand for the soup currently outstrips supply. But it may be some time before cans of spicy iguana soup show up on US grocery shelves, since meeting the demand isn't the only obstacle exporters confront.
"We have iguana soup, but we don't have the proper license to distribute it yet," says Rodriguez of Distribuidora.
He and his father had to wait three years to get a fish and wildlife license from the Food and Drug Administration to distribute frozen iguana meat. But when permission is granted to distribute iguana soup, "we are ready," he promises. -
BUT THEY ARE SO FIERCE!!! THEY BITES!!!
CANT CATCH!!!! -
That are Komodo Dragon. They cant be eaten since they have poisonous bite.Originally posted by killstyle:BUT THEY ARE SO FIERCE!!! THEY BITES!!!
CANT CATCH!!!!
But other types of monitor lizard can i think. -
NO NO. KOMODO IS BIGGER THEN U AND RUN FASTER THAN YOU!!! ONCE THEY TARGET U ARE FINISHED!!!
IGUANAS AND MOITOR LIZARDS DO BITES. I TRY B4. ITS DAM PAINFUL -
siao... eat that for sucide...
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dont be dumb. when someone wants to eat it. he wont catcht it using his bare hands. he will find other means. According to the WO i know, he said he need to pin it down using a long stick with a rope circle and cut its head off firstOriginally posted by killstyle:NO NO. KOMODO IS BIGGER THEN U AND RUN FASTER THAN YOU!!! ONCE THEY TARGET U ARE FINISHED!!!
IGUANAS AND MOITOR LIZARDS DO BITES. I TRY B4. ITS DAM PAINFUL -
I've eaten monitor lizard before ... it taste something like a cross between fish and chicken ... the meat's a bit springy and has a fiberous feel to it ... -
1 Iguana
1 1/2 quarts of iguana broth (or chicken broth)
2 Chicken bouillon cubes
1 Clove of garlic
1 Leek
1 Tomato, coarsely chopped
1 Onion, studded with 3 cloves
1 Green Pepper, quartered
1/4 small Cabbage
1 tsp Cumin
1 dash Nutmeg
Salt and Pepper
2 oz Vermicelli
Kill, clean, skin and cut the Iguana into serving pieces.
Prepare chicken broth in heavy kettle, add garlic, leek, tomato, onion, green pepper and cabbage. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for thirty minutes. Add the iguana, and simmer an additional half hour, or until the meat is tender. Remove from the fire. Strain broth, discarding vegetables. Bone the iguana and set the meat aside.
Return the broth to the fire and add cumin, nutmeg, vermicelli and salt and pepper. Simmer for about five minutes until the vermicelli is tender. Add the iguana and heat thoroughly. Serve piping hot with Funchi (Corn meal mush).
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STEAMED OR CURRY OR FRIED OR BBQ???? -
I RESPECT YOU!!!!
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If u think i just pulling yr legs, search internet , u will find iguana recipes especially soup.
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chinese style ... with herbs like kau kee and stewed in black soy sauce .... the same way I ate python .....
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yup.. the WO from sispec (tekong) last time always drive around the island looking for monitor lizards, durians, n mangoes..Originally posted by Homecoming:Some old timer WO during my NS told me once before that he knows how to prepare iguana curry and that it is very tasty to eat. He supposedly had cooked it for his platoon mates. Anyone knows where to eat it or what
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Yuana—Stewed iguana, which tastes remarkably like chicken; also iguana soup (Sopi Yuana) -
yeah the WO i know told me in Tekong and Lim Chu Kang he can catch monitor lizards to cook.Originally posted by monoslayer:yup.. the WO from sispec (tekong) last time always drive around the island looking for monitor lizards, durians, n mangoes.. -
According to him, Iguana has medicilnal properties and good for sex drive.
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according to the chinese sinsehs, almost everything and anything is good for something ...Originally posted by Homecoming:According to him, Iguana has medicilnal properties and good for sex drive. -
My friend who's in the Commando camp got a Komodo dragon in his birds trap. He have no choice but to kill it to eat during his training. It taste worst than rotten food, but no choice but to wash it with salt and cook. That's their only food.
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yup.. the WO from sispec (tekong) last time always drive around the island looking for monitor lizards, durians, n mangoes.. [/b][/quote]
hmm. memories. miss my days. wish i were young again. -
some food are just not meant to be eaten...
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you know the chinese saying :"as long as it's back faces heaven, it can be eaten" ? ...Originally posted by R3SsH|n:some food are just not meant to be eaten... -
komodo dragon
but seriously, it's monitor lizard... they're tasty...