Another recipe, from the site: http://www.chiloemagico.cl/comuna.php?
comuna=chiloe&tema=platos_tipicos&lan=en
CAZUELA DE CHOLGAS CON PIURES (Mussel and Piure stew)
INGREDIENTS
10 large mussels
10 piures (obtained from the fish market)
1 small cabbage
1 large carrot
1 cup of peas or beans
¼ kilo of pumpkin
1 tablespoonful of rice
Pinch of pepper
2 cloves of garlic
½ small onion
½ spoonful of lard
Oregano, parsley and salt
PREPARATION
Chop the onion and garlic and fry in the lard, adding salt and
pepper. Add the shellfish and half a litre of water and boil for 10
minutes. Now add the carrot and pumpkin and boil for a further 5
minutes before adding the potatoes, cabbage, beans and rice and
another half a litre of water. Boil for a further 20 minutes. Before
serving add the oregano and parsley.
On 25/11/2005, at 13:34, Gretchen Lambert wrote:
> Ok readers who live in countries where ascidians are cultured, sold
> in the markets and considered a delicacy, how about some more
> recipes? Shota has contributed a few but there must be many more
> ways to prepare it. Could it be that all of us scientists who do
> research on ascidians know so much that we avoid them as food?
> Actually I had a very delicious meal of ascidians fixed in many
> ways at the symposium banquet of the ascidian meeting in Sapporo in
> 2000. It was held at the restaurant of Dr. Shionoya, one of the
> underwriters of the symposium, and every course was ascidian
> prepared in various ways. Dr. Shionoya has another business that
> includes freeze-drying Halocynthia aurantium for food supplement
> tablets and also vacuum packed dried strips to chew on (a sort of
> ascidian jerky; I like it). I've attached a few photos from the
> meeting and dinner. (My thanks to Dr. and Mrs. Meinertzhagen
> holding a sort of deep fried ascidian Big Mac who are very good
> sports and gave their permission for me to use this photo in my
> talks about ascidians.)
> Best wishes, Gretchen Lambert
> <Halocynthia poster.jpg>
> <Meinertzhagen.jpg>
> <Halocynthia on plate.jpg>
> Gretchen Lambert
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> Seattle, WA 98177
> tel. 206-365-3734
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> http://depts.washington.edu/ascidian/
> University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories
> "Ascidians are back in the limelight, with a good chance of staying
> there." -- O. Pourquié, Nature 8 Feb. 2001.
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