I recently re-connected with my wild turtle hunter contact and bought 3 small green soft shell turtles… all weighing in total 1.25 kilos alive. Had the children play around with them for a day. Did not feed them. That should clear them of poop. Then cooked them for dinner last night.
Recipe for turtle soup, actually turtle stew with coconut milk runs like this:
- Boil a big enough pot of water.
- Insert the turtles in the water alive. Their instinct is to go in their shell.
- After 10-15 minutes stop the fire.
- Disassemble the cooked turtle and remove shell, and any peal-able green skin.
- In a wok or big pan insert your chopped onion, garlic, ginger and freshly squeezed coconut milk / gata (we used 2 coconuts this time). Add pepper to taste.
- Stew for a few minutes until it starts to evaporate out.
- Add some Sprite or 7-Up to adjust taste. (this is not a paleo diet ingredient so you might want to skip this)
- Turn off the heat and serve… probably done in 15 minutes.
I must say this is one of the best tasting turtle stew recipes we’ve done. Turtle meat with zero condiments taste great.
I don’t usually eat cooked meat but I take exception to turtles. I don’t think it’s possible to eat them raw. Or maybe it is and I’m just queasy.
Enjoy!
Soft Shell Turtle - careful, they bite.
Lots of people swear via testimonies that they cured their children’s asthma by eating turtles. Last Sunday was no exception. Some neighbor onlookers there showed 3 children who swear their asthmas were cured due to eating these turtles. For these very poor people to be spared hospital expenses for nebulizer services meant a lot.