Alastair Little, Richard Whittington

Ostrich

Appears in
The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook
The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

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This strange-looking giant flightless bird, long eaten in South Africa as biltong (dried meat), has enjoyed a wider popularity with the introduction of commercial ostrich farming in Europe and the USA. A number of gullible people encouraged to invest in ostrich farms have lost their money, thinking they owned entire birds only to discover a few thousand other people thought the same thing about the same few birds.

The meat is quite strongly flavoured and dark in colour but very low in saturated fat, presumably the reason why it has been heavily promoted. Treat ostrich meat as you would a lean piece of steak, but grill it only briefly as it toughens with overcooking.