Stuff the turkey
Stuff the turkey
A new cookbook is offering more than 100 different recipes to liberate the traditional turkey or goose from their mass slaughter at Christmas by suggesting some exotic alternatives.
 | The Exotic Meat Cookbook (alternativemeats.co.uk) offers up recipes for all times of the year, not just the festive season, even BBQs are catered for! Simple, appetising dishes include kangaroo Cornish pasties, chilli crocodile goujons and roast springbok with mango salad! Those with a more safari-style appetite can gorge on Moroccan spiced antelope or zebra teriyaki. Or if you still want a bird for the table then UK-bred free range ostrich is available. Other recipes include camel, caribou, kudu and wild boar. For those less adventurous there are also dishes using mutton, kid goat and wild rabbit. |
According to the cookbook the best way to prepare wild meats, which are much leaner than other types of flesh products, is not to cook them beyond medium rare. Normal beef and lamb has fats and marbling which keep them moist when cooking.
Authors Edgar and Rachel Godwin practice what they preach by offering all the meats featured in the book, from Antelope to Zebra, from their farm in Wem, Shropshire. Oh, they also offer some vegetarian products such as spinach and cheddar sausages.
