Iguana recipes

[SportFishStaff]

In honor of Bill's trips south. A recipe for Iguana stew.


Easy and tasty recipes Mexican food is a dreamland for you! Though after tasting a few tortillas and salsa you might think that you know everything about Mexican food, but that's not true.
There are hundreds of recipes that are known mostly to people who actually live in Mexico or to the true experts of Mexican cuisine.

For example: This recipe is not for me! Now that doesn't mean anything I don't eat menudo, nor calf fries, cows tongue and etc. :-) Iguana stew For the ones who care to indulge, this was on the menu at Hotel Mopan in Belize.

While some of them are truly exotic, calling for such ingredients as iguana meat, it is always good to know them just in case you'll need to cook something really special.

Here's a recipe of truly Mexican. "Iguana stew". You may substitute iguana with chicken, but that's not recommended. OK go ahead use Chicken I DID. :-)

* 1-Iguana
* 2-onions
* 1-tablespoon of salt
* 6-8-carrots
* 1-tablespoon of celantro
* 1 small ball of recardo
* 1-cup vinegar
* 1-lime
* 1-sweet pepper
* 1-tablespoon of black pepper
* 1/2-cabbage
* 2-cloves of garlic
* 1-can of diced tomato
* coconut oil
Skin and clean iguana, then wash it in a mixture of vinegar and lime. After that, mix all seasonings and spices together in a bowl and rub them into the meat. Leave the rubbed meat for half an hour. Pour coconut oil in a pot, just to cover the bottom and place it on the fire.

When the oil is hot, put in the iguana meat, then cook it for another half an hour, turning a few times and adding a bit of water if needed. During that time slice the carrots, tomatoes and cabbage. Add them to the meat and cook for another half an hour. Serve with rice and beans.

[NeonPirate]

I may give this a try over the weekend...but I am not telling anyone that it is chicken!

[Chico1]

On the really cold mornings the iguanas in SW florida will just drop out of the trees, not really dead, just too cold to hold on any longer. Makes "harvesting" much easier I grew up in Central America and I remember the farm hands roasting them on an open fire and skinning them after they were done. Don't actually remember what they tasted like. I did ask some indigenous women in Mazatlan Mexico about eating them and they just blushed and said no one ate them Kinda like armadillo's, no one admits to eating them.