I can’t get it from my local supermarket in Australia, but I can get it from my local meat shop in Mumbai! Emu meat. Native to Australia and Australia’s unofficial national bird (we don’t have an official one, but the emu appears on our coat of arms, along with the kangaroo).
The world is such a random place sometimes!
The shopkeeper told me that he hasn’t been getting any repeat orders for the emu meat though, probably because Indians don’t know how to cook it properly. I thought about getting some, but then realised that heck, even I don’t know how to cook it properly!
Although the sign says, “Offers red meat lovers what they expect in terms of joy of eating” — maybe not!
I’m not so keen on eating emu, but I’d be very happy if the shop started stocking kangaroo meat.
Nevertheless, if you’re feeling adventurous and want to try some emu meat, get it from Meats ‘n’ More. Shop 11, Eden II, Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai. Ph: 25708345 or 9867597027.
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Wow I didn’t know Meats & More was selling such an exotic meat, I’ll have to check it, is it costly? I ate emu on occasion in Geneva our supermarket was selling it, it’s good grilled like a steak and served with herbed butter. There must be other way to cook it I think, but that’s the only one I tried.
It’s 450 rupees a kilo, I think the guy said. It comes diced in cubes. A friend of mine said that it was good to grill it, or even mince it. It just seems strange to me that a bird can be “red meat” not white though. I’m really not into the whole emu eating idea.
I have eaten emu, ostrich and rhea … Excellent for “hamburgers” and chili if you mince/ground it.
I could not tell difference between it and beef.
And it is 4x the cost here in Canada!
I do not know if I could eat emu. Hee hee!
Some years ago I found an emu cookbook that someone had offered online. It was a fairly large volume of about 200 recipes, some of them using emu eggs rather than the meat. Unfortunately I don’t have it anymore or I would have offered it to someone who would be interested. I did just do a brief search online and found some recipes, so they are out there.
My gosh, 200 emu recipes!
Pathetic people are those who don’t even spare their national bird.
Shame Shame !!
Not just the national bird, the animal (kangaroo) is good tucker (food) too!
Then it would be good if politicians are made “National Animals” of India and then we follow the OZ way. Eat them all.
Somehow, I don’t think they would be very tasty. Australia’s national animals are very low in fat!
Emu meat, very interesting. I googled “How to cook emu meat” and bingo:
http://www.uniquelyemu.com/emu-meat-4.htm
Why not try it? Then write a post about it and let us know how it was
When I lived in Ghana, we had ostrich meat in the supermarket. Very lean, very beefy, really. Perfectly fine to eat and didn’t taste strange at all.
Alright, you’ve tempted me now! I shall work up some courage.
When I lived in West Africa, I was shocked to see gorilla paws next to tomatoes in the local farmers market!
LOL
There are ‘emu farms’ in California too. I’ve eaten emu meat & it does taste like really good quality lean beef. Emu meat is richer in iron by weight than beef also. (Great for those of us prone to iron deficiency)
Emu oil is supposed to be good for all sorts of skin problems, I don’t want to think about how they get oil out of emus. Do they squeeze them like lemons perhaps?
more info-
Emu Oil & Meat Facts & FAQs
http://www.wildernessemuranch.com/facts.html
All these years in India, and you’re still doing meat ?
Sad ! Bad Karma !
There is no right way to eat an animal, only many wrong ways.
Why not eat meat? My family eats meat.
Besides the whole vegetarianism issue is very subjective. There’s plenty of discussion on it: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Hindus-946/2012/6/bhagavad-gita-vegetarian.htm
Yes Sharell is correct. Here she has actually shown more knowledge of Indian culture than actual ethnic Indians. In the ancient Indian texts there is mention of eating fowl, lamb and even deer. In the Mahabharata, Arjun, Bhim and others ate great amounts of meat. This vegetarianism and pacifism is something new brought by Buddhists and Jainis.
Eating moderate amounts of meat is healthy and good for you. Rajputs enjoy eating lamb especially.
Hi Sharel,
In India there is pseudo vegetarianism. In certain communities where non veg is not allowed at home, they go outside and eat it secretly. There are certain others who consider meat as clean but turn up their noses on fish eaters, as fish is considered dirty by them. Since meat is not cooked in the households and mostly consumed with alcohol, non veg food gets a bad name. More than the vegetarians it is those people who distinguish between different types of non veg food just to prove their cultural superiority irritate me a lot. There is a lot of nautanki that goes on in India in the name for veg/non veg food.
Yeah, that would really bother me too. I think intention behind a person’s action is the most important thing, not the action itself. It’s like, for example, someone who donates large sums of money to charity just for the purpose of trying to look generous and helpful in front of others. If they don’t actually have the intent of wanting to help lesser fortunate people, I don’t think it will generate much good karma for them. Yet, if someone donates $10 with all their heart and soul, and that’s all they can possibly afford, I think the impact on their karma would be much more positive.
If you eat fish, you are culturally inferior because fish is smelly. This is the kind of logic that certain communities have in India. Not to mention that they consider themselves superior to others in all aspects. In Hinduism it is believed that you become aggressive with non veg food and peaceful with vegetarian food. However, the people who are vociferous meat eater in India like the Bengalis are the most docile people while the North Indians with their vegetarian food are the most aggressive. We have mentioned of non veg food in vedic times as well. If we share the same legacy of the Aryans, I don’t see why there should be a snobbishness associated with vegetarian food.
Which north Indians are vegetarian? I am very confused by people here repeating this.
Rajasthanis definitely eat meat. Punjabis + Haryanvis do as well. In UP many people eat meat as well. Kashmiris and Himachalis eat large amounts of meat.
Which north Indians are vegetarian?
Well apparently a fair number of Punjabis are judging by the number of ‘Vaishno Dhabas’ there are everywhere.
First, the language you wrote sucks.
Second what you want to convey is illogical logic.
Because just because someone eat meat doesn’t mean they won’t eat vegetarian food ever.
Vaishno Dhabas are there to cater to those who would want a vegetarian meal. They don’t provide certification of being a vegetarian.
So please don’t think that people eating at Vaishno Dhabas don’t eat meat. Its just they are trying something different.
Chanakaya-
‘Vaishno Dhabas are there to cater to those who would want a vegetarian meal. They don’t provide certification of being a vegetarian.’
Talk about sucky language & illogical logic, there’s a prime example.
Since when do you need ‘certification’ to be a vegetarian?
“However, the people who are vociferous meat eater in India like the Bengalis are the most docile people while the North Indians with their vegetarian food are the most aggressive.”
That is simply not true. Neither Bengalis are docile nor they are vociferous meat eater. Similarly neither all north Indians are vegetarian nor are they all most aggressive.
Why are all north Indians defamed always. Fed up.
Was LTTE a north Indian organization?
Is ULFA and other militant organization north-Indian.
Are all Maoist/Naxals north Indians?
No ! And still they are called most aggressive.
The fact is that in north India the consumption of meat is very high, except UP. But even in UP, its eastern region indulge in meat eating indiscriminately. Punjab, Haryana, Delhi all are crazy for Mughal cuisine which is obviously not vegetarian. Similarly Himanchal, Uttaranchal and J&k are religiously meat eater. In Bihar, even Brahmins eat meat.
Only in Rajasthan and UP, Baniya caste or Jains don’t involve much in meat-eating. But other than this most of the caste in UP and Rajasthan eat meat.
Oh really, I know about a certain “Sikh Khalistan Movement” in the 1980s which threatened to separate Punjab from India. It went on and on for 20 years leading to bloodbath in Punjab and Delhi. Don’t tell me that this movement was started by Bengalis.
You are Bengali??
pseudo vegetarianism? Is that like some Bengalies who eat fish call themselves vegetarians?
Ha Ha!
Heheh, fish is a river vegetable, don’t you know?!
Have not you guys heard that song from a movie I forgot-
“Chal Kheva re kheva re naiya kheva,
Machli hai sagar ka meva .”
recently me and my friend visited emu farm in tamilnadu while we were passing by the road.my friend asked owner how much does it cost ,they told its not for sale ,when we enquired more about it, he told that there is a company in city we deposited 3 lakh rupees they came and build the farm and provided some 10 small emu, every month the company will provide 14000 rupees for feeding the emu and after one year the company will take it (emu) back and refund the 3 lakh rupees. whats the idea behind this?
It sounds like some kind of emu breeding scheme, to increase the number of emus.
Strangely enough, I find emu tastes a bit like beef… It was very trendy for a period in France (my country), but it is no longer as successful now.
Litmus test:
I could spend all day in a wheat-field, or in an apple-orchard, and still come home, happy and cheerful.
Could you spend all day at your butcher-shop, and still come home happy and peaceful ?
Merely outsourcing the slaughtering of the animal to your butcher in no way lessens the bad Karma accruing to you, much like hiring a contract-killer to knock off somebody in no way makes you less culpable of murder.
Vegetarianism is the way ahead for all Mankind.
Chris-
ULTRA litmus test-
So what about all those hapless invertebrates murdered while harvesting & preparing your karmically superior vegetarian fare? isn’t killing all those nematodes, plant lice, insect larvae & other microbial flora and fauna just as bad as killing their larger counterparts?
Would you take antibiotics when suffering a bacterial/microbial infection? That’s bad karma too isn’t it?
Tamasha,
There are varying degrees of badness.
We humans are all present upon this earth, because our Aatmas have already attained a high enough threshold on the Karmic scale to merit human-birth.
However, our Aatmas are still far from having become self-realized, for when the Aatma eventually achieves self-realization, it achieves Moksha (liberation from the cycle of birth, life, death, rebirth). So, the very fact that we are present on earth is proof that we are as yet only imperfect Aatmas, trudging along on the long road to ultimately attaining Moksha. So, as imperfect beings, it is almost inevitable that some sin will indeed be committed by the best of us, such as the unfortunate and inadvertent killing of some earthworms while tilling the soil of our wheat-fields.
However, it does not require Einstein-like genius to recognize that killing a large, intelligent, sentient mammal like a cow is NOT on par with the unfortunate crushing of an earthworm by an agriculturist. The intelligent cow, no matter how kindly you may treat it, is fully aware of its impending slaughter, and spends its last few hours on earth in sheer terror and torment. The earthworm on the other hand, , lacking the enormous intelligence of cows, suffers no such torment before its unfortunate death in the wheat-fields during some agricultural process.
Thus, you will readily agree that there are varying degrees of sin. The only way to totally avoid committing all sin is to attain Moksha, and thus avoid being born on this imperfect earth itself. All other imperfect beings on this planet will, of needs, accrue some Bad Karma during their stay on earth.
The specious argument that the process of agriculture results in the collateral damage to the lives of earthworms should not be used to justify the killing of large sentient mammals, carried out for the purpose of enabling some carnivorous humans to stuff their faces with dead-cow-flesh.
Chris-
“killing a large, intelligent, sentient mammal like a cow is NOT on par with the unfortunate crushing of an earthworm by an agriculturist”
Says who?
Where is it written?
If we can’t kill ‘large sentient mammals’ can we kill non mammals such as bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous vertebrates known as ‘aves’ (birds)?
Why draw the line arbitrarily at invertebrates?
Invertebrates are living creatures also, if an earthworm could scream loud enough for humans to hear- would you still advocate their mindless slaughter?
Comparing lice with Goats, Chickens and Beefs.???
I didn’t expect such a stupid comparison from you. What has happened to you famous logic and rational.
OK. You like to eat meat. Then proudly say that Allah have given these delicacies to enjoy. There is no wrong in that. That would be fine.
But Comparing lice with innocent cows and goats is ridiculous. Also Goats and chickens don’t create trouble for us, in fact they give us milk. But LICE? What that give you sweetie ?
Moderator’s Note: I recall, this discussion has gone down a similar path in a previous post. Let’s get back on to the topic, thanks!
Oh !
And I thought Sharell’s comments has been moderated by Shiriki. But that would be an interesting sight, no?
Wouldn’t it just! But no, sorry to disappoint. I got in first with this morning’s comment moderation.
I think vegetarianism is a very sensitive subject.. I am not here talking about the Hindu veg culture as i don’t know too much about the history but am speaking from my experience.
My brother tuned vegetarian when he went to music college and felt his softer side and my parents followed shortly after so i was a veg in my teens too. As i moved away from home i have been a meat eater, a veg eater, just eating fish etc now i only eat veg and I eat meat that i am certain have had a good life and wasn’t treated bad or was killed facing horror.
My friend have an animal farm and they love their beautiful animals, the cows give birth and they will help the mother in any possible way, make sure they have a safe delivery and a good life. If the animals are in pain they are in pain. if they serve me meat I will gladly accept it, the same goes for those who hunt the Elk in the Swedish forests, they have to be hunted as they unfortunately have become too many and too close to human society to thrive, if the group becomes too large they will be run over by cars, have to look for food where they will be a threat to humans and it will be a disaster. Secondly, the professional hunters have a respect for the animals, the woods and nature. They would not shoot a mother with a calf, there is a respect to nature and i do respect that and can live with my decision to eat the meat.
Anyone who eats KFC, who loves a bit of chicken nuggets and just don’t care most likely are eating a lot of pain which will stay put in the stomach and the soul, at least that’s what i believe.
Respect for all that is living is key. We are all part of the planet, no one is better or more worthy than the others
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7Babs_FJU
Actually i will post this, hope it turns someone around, But sorry for the sadness in advance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEliPlTqkEk
Though the choice of being vegetarian or non-vegetarian is very much a personal thing and people shouldn’t impose their views on others, however people also shouldn’t quote religious lines wrongly in order to support their views. Hinduism just advice people to be kind towards animals. The the choice of being vegetarian or non-vegetarian is left to you.
I love animals and I would never hurt any animals and I can’t stand seeing animals suffering. But strangely enough, I eat meat. I have always eaten meat and when I eat it, I don’t think of the living animal which had been slaughtered. That is the problem; so I would like to do like Laanisa and eat animals which had a good life. Unfortunately, it is so much easier to buy meat at the supermarket without knowing where the meat is from.
My mum loves animals more than she loves people, but still, she’s not a vegetarian. She forces me to eat meat twice a day! But she does only choose free range organic meat (so the animals that have been able to roam free, and not fed horrible chemicals), not the stuff from supermarkets.
A tad troubling to watch
Dolphin Slaughter in Denmark
http://youtu.be/bgUJQBCtHhg
And then this
Undercover Investigation at Hy-Line Hatchery
http://youtu.be/JJ–faib7to
Earthworms being killed during agriculture = inadvertent Collateral Damage.
Cows being cynically and deliberately raised for slaughter = Premeditated Murder.
@ Sharell
“My mum loves animals more than she loves people, but still, she’s not a vegetarian. She forces me to eat meat twice a day! But she does only choose free range organic meat (so the animals that have been able to roam free, and not fed horrible chemicals), not the stuff from supermarkets.”
I love animals too more than people for sure!!
I was brought up a vegetarian and have forced myself to watch Earthlings documentaries of animal treatment….STILL, I ate meat for many years afterwards, not often but still….sure, sometimes I did get that pang of guilty conscience but kept ignoring it. It just came a day recently when I was too aware to continue doing something that I can’t stand up too and this is my personal choice.
It would be a great start at least if everyone could eat meat that hasn’t been mass produced, as your mother does buy organic, free range from certified farms (in the long run this is better for EVERYONE, for us, the farmers and the animals and nature) and try to introduce vegetarian options too as options.
And shut down Mac Donald’s and similar chains, i can’t believe this has not happened yet!!!!!!
What not to eat
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/fast-food-reddit_n_1654025.html
Fast Food Workers Of Reddit Tell You What Not To Eat
Vegetarians Beware: While a lot of comments admitted to using the same grill/spatula/knife on vegetarian and meat items alike, this comment from user attack_goblin made us gasp a little extra: “I used to work at a restaurant where we deep-fried the Gardenburger patties in the same oil we deep-fried the bacon.”
Wendy’s Chili: While not as traditionally disgusting as some other fast food traditions, we found Cozmo23′s description of the chili recipe at Wendy’s to be pretty stomach-churning — “The meat comes from hamburger patties that sat on the grill too long to serve to customers. They take them and put them in a bin and then throw them in the fridge. When the chili is made they take it out, boil it, chop it up and dump them in the chili.”
This is why vegetarians should be eating at Vegetarian restaurants.
When in the UK, avoid eating at “Indian” restaurants that serve meat dishes, because these restaurants are mostly Bangladeshi owned.
In the US, “Indian” restaurants that serve meat are mostly Pakistani owned. Therefore, avoid these.
What does the ownership have to do with vegetarians eating at non-veg restaurants?
Seasoned vegetarians know that the safest option is to avoid patronizing restaurants that serve meat, since cross-contamination is inevitable.
I believe there was a court case in NJ where a Pakistani waiter surrepteously fed beef to Hindu diners knowingly, out of spite.
Initially the case seemed like one of those frivelous case these Hindus brought for being served meat when they asked for vegetarian food. In fact many people were mocking the “Hindutva” Hindus for being dumb going into a non veg restaruants….and what not.
I believe they won when they sued that waiter and the restaruant.
But I should also state, if you want to buy meat (Mutton) in India, get it from a Muslim butcher or eat out at Muslim restataurants for many non veg restaruants in N.Delhi operated by “Hindus” they serve beef. Yes.. “Sickular” Hindus would serve beef to Hindus out of greed…if not out of spite.
Oh, the U.S. and its love for suing everyone under the sun.
If this happened at a pure veg restaurant, then I think it would be more surprising.
How funny, I just noticed that we have an emu farm down the road from us in Bangalore. It’s not something I expected to see over here, I have to say! Especially because I’ve never seen it back home in Aus…
we sell emu oil and emu meat and try it and its getting more popular in india
http://emuoilindia.com