Fruit Bat Soup

Ingredients

• •3 fruit bats, well washed but neither skinned nor eviscerated
• •Water
• •1 tablespoon finely sliced fresh ginger
• •1 large onion
• •Sea salt to taste
• •Chopped scallions
• •Soy sauce and/or coconut cream

Directions

1. 1Place the bats in a large kettle and add water to cover, the ginger, onion, and salt. Bring to a boil and boil 40 minutes. Strain broth into a second kettle.
2. 2Take bats, skin them and discard skin. Remove meat from the bones and return meat, including any of the viscera fancied, to the broth. Heat.
3. 3Serve liberally sprinkled with scallions and further seasoned with soy sauce and, or coconut cream.