Jason King
AmyHuangFood that Makes You Go Ewwwwwww - PACHA
December 5th 2010 21:09
This delicious meal comes from the tables of Iraq and is a hideous looking meal but is only eating of a sheep - something we do regularly with lamb.
The recipe is basically just boiling a sheep's head. You might get some trotters and stomach thrown in there. The ingredients are all boiled slowly so that a sort of broth forms around the head, and whatever other body parts are being boiled. It is then seasoned to taste and served with some bread soaking in the broth itself. If the stomach is being served as well, then that would most likely be filled with rice and lamb before being sewn shut to keep all that stomach-flavored goodness inside.
Perhaps the worst part of the dish is that once you get over the oddness of eating a boiled sheep’s head, all you’re really doing is eating sheep meat, until the terror reveals itself with each consecutive mouthful of boiled head meat. Piece by piece and scrap of flesh by scrap of flesh, you will slowly reveal the grin of the sheep skull beneath. Depending on whether or not you opt to have the eyeballs removed or left in, by the time you finish your pacha, you’ll be left with a skull on a plate, its empty eye-sockets a hollow mockery of their former selves.
We pretty much do this regularly with fish and occasionally chicken although most of the time the head is removed. I have eaten fish eyes before and they were hideous. I just think the animal's head makes it more personal and is quite macabre. But when you are hungry you will pick the meat off everything and it is just another part of the meal. At least when we eat beef cheeks we get the rest of the head removed. How the hell would I have a pot big enough
The recipe is basically just boiling a sheep's head. You might get some trotters and stomach thrown in there. The ingredients are all boiled slowly so that a sort of broth forms around the head, and whatever other body parts are being boiled. It is then seasoned to taste and served with some bread soaking in the broth itself. If the stomach is being served as well, then that would most likely be filled with rice and lamb before being sewn shut to keep all that stomach-flavored goodness inside.
Perhaps the worst part of the dish is that once you get over the oddness of eating a boiled sheep’s head, all you’re really doing is eating sheep meat, until the terror reveals itself with each consecutive mouthful of boiled head meat. Piece by piece and scrap of flesh by scrap of flesh, you will slowly reveal the grin of the sheep skull beneath. Depending on whether or not you opt to have the eyeballs removed or left in, by the time you finish your pacha, you’ll be left with a skull on a plate, its empty eye-sockets a hollow mockery of their former selves.
We pretty much do this regularly with fish and occasionally chicken although most of the time the head is removed. I have eaten fish eyes before and they were hideous. I just think the animal's head makes it more personal and is quite macabre. But when you are hungry you will pick the meat off everything and it is just another part of the meal. At least when we eat beef cheeks we get the rest of the head removed. How the hell would I have a pot big enough
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