Iguana Soup

My Honduran neighbours in Belize made it all the time. Sometimes, the iguana would have eggs inside, and they would eat them raw.

Have tried local deep fried monitor lizzards that have been marinated with spicy hot curry spices.
Tastes like a cross between very chewy chicken/fish with lots of small bones.
Imported South American iguanas are sold as pets in pet shops for USD100/150(or more) each and too costly for local consumption.

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Would it matter to you what kind of iguana went into the soup i.e. the endangered Nicaraguan green iguana ( popular during Easter celabrations) for instance or do you not care if any of these creatures become extinct.

No,it was just a normal iguana (I think...I'm not an expert in iguanas;-)

They are farmed just outside Leon (we went to the farm...there were literally thousands of them) so I don't think there is any danger of it becoming extinct....

I've had some in Aruba. Tastes just like chicken.

Every 'strange' meat tastes like chicken ;-)

There was a kind of agama lizard called a dhubb that was sold live in the poultry markets in Saudi Arabia. You just eat the tail. I never had the nerve. And besides, my students told me they were often inhabited by djinn, and I don't want to mess with djinn.