On the other side of the earth, Central American Nicaragua , there is a traditional delicacy called garrobo, which is a soup made of "other national second-level key protected wild animals" green iguana iguana iguana iguana with pumpkin, carrots and various spices.
This tropical country is always humid and hot, but every weekend (regardless of the weather), thousands of Nicaraguans go to drink their favorite garrobo (green iguana soup).
This is a typical weekend dinner and is ideal after a week at church.
But in fact, not only these Christians like it, but also ordinary Nicaraguan people.
In Nicaragua, people from presidents to farmers love garrobo just like Chengdu people love Chuanchuan, Chongqing people love hot pot, and Guangdong people who fall in love with hotness cannot do without herbal tea.
Nicalaguan people enjoy the delicious garrobo
Green iguana soup is great and very delicious. Its entire torso is edible. (Usually do not eat head and feet)
It is said that you can eat the mixed flavor of crab meat and chicken, and the whole soup is served with cube starchy vegetables such as carrots and potatoes.
one adult green iguana soup price is about 100 Cordoba (Nicaraguan currency) and about 28 RMB.
In April and May, iguana broth is very popular as a tonic and aphrodisiac.
is particularly popular and even in short supply in the days before Easter.
Oscar Carrión, chef at Leon Serencik, said: "Although green iguanas are a protected species in Nicaragua. But because the number is so many, the government encourages us to hunt and eat them. We only eat males so that females can still lay eggs."
Carrión said that her skills in cooking green iguanas were learned by her grandmother. There are many ways to eat green iguanas, you can make iguanas into soup, fried or roasted, and the taste is very good.
Carion cooks green iguanas using skewers learned from grandmother for cooking
The issue of eating green iguanas in Nicaragua is not contradictory to the protection of species.
Like other countries, even if you take it as a pet to raise a green iguana, it will be considered a crime and will be arrested and sent to jail.
Hunting of green iguanas is prohibited from January to April every year because it is the breeding period.
There is a shortage of supply in wild green iguanas, so the local government encourages artificial breeding of large amounts of green iguanas for consumption and can be exported to the United States and some developed countries. The excess meat will also be made into canned food, either eaten by humans or cats and dogs.
In Nicaragua, the government has set up nature reserves very early, such as the forest reserve station in the Laspiras-Elhoyo Volcano Nature Reserve near the city of Leon, and locals have established a wild green iguana rescue station to rescue those injured green iguanas.
Some elderly individuals and individuals who have lost their ability to reproduce will still be eaten, which is done with permission from the government and law.
part of the green iguanas bred from the rescue station are released into natural parts for supply to the market for consumption.
Old Fire Soup garrobo
Nicaraguan traditional food Garrobo, Honduran traditional food Zukuru, and canned green iguana
protection policies can be adapted. I hope you don’t kill it in one go, and give reptile lovers some space.
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