Pickled anaconda-eggs

In Segai villages, pickled eggs are one of the most durable foods. This is the most complicated dish in the Segai cuisine.

Segaii used fire for lighting and cooking. In the kitchen, the most common method of preparation is roasting on a spit, boiling meat and vegetables wrapped in banana leafs and baking in ashes, but pots and pans made of wood and earthenware, as well as leather skin, are also used. Sacks and wicker baskets are for storage. Food is served in wooden bowls, trays and plates, no cutlery is used apart from the knife - a fork is used during baking and cooking, but not for eating. The dishes are made with boiled water and seasoned with sea salt, herbs and spices collected in the jungle.

The pickled eggs are usually made from the eggs of the Emerald armored anaconda. The hunters dig up the nest of the dreaded predator, and take its contents to the village.

First, they are cooked in boiling water, and then two-three eggs are placed per small, earthenware urns, that also comes with a lid. The eggs are doused with a mixture of boiled water, sea salt and "vinegar", made from the crushed leaves of the Bleak Fern. In some places different spices are added to the marinade. The urns are sealed with beeswax and buried for at least two new moons.

Pickled anaconda-eggs are usually eaten as an appetizer, the first thing offered to an esteemed guest when he or she arrives. When they consuming it, they beak off the shell at the upper part, and they drink the contents as if drinking from a glass. Its appropriate to be praised, regardless of its taste, and to refuse it is considered a serious insult, since obtaining the eggs is an extremely dangerous task, and preparing them is like an art form among the Segaii.

by A.I. (OpenArt Creative & Artbreeder)

Pickled anaconda-eggs

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Continent of Damus

Kapcsolódó Etnikumok

• Segai beastman