Engine Roasted Tip-Yip was a dish made from the carcass of a tip-yip bird roasted using a starship engine. The Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs included a recipe for the dish in the main courses section of his second cookbook, The Life Day Cookbook, and claimed it was perfect for those celebrating the Life Day festival away from home.
Strono Tuggs (pictured) included Engine Roasted Tip-Yip in his cookbook.
The Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs included a recipe for the dish in the main courses section of his second cookbook, The Life Day Cookbook, which was released at some point after he published his first cookbook in 34 ABY.
Tuggs presented the dish as something that could easily be made to celebrate the mid-winter Life Day festival by those unable to return home for the holidays, and promised anyone who cooked it would find their whole crew singing their praises. He claimed tip-yip tasted best when roasted at high temperatures like those produced by ship thrusters, for the skin would become crispy while the meat stayed juicy. Tuggs also admitted that the dish could simply be prepared in an oven but believed that it would be less fun.
Poe Dameron roasts a tip-yip using the engines of the Millennium Falcon
Engine Roasted Tip-Yip first appeared in The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, a 2020 non-canon short film. In the film, Resistance General Poe Dameron, having never cooked a tip-yip before, uses the starship engines of the Millennium Falcon to try and roast one quickly on a spit as part of preparations for a Life Day party on the planet Kashyyyk.
After the protocol droid C-3PO activates the thrusters, Dameron's allies Rose Tico and Finn question what he is doing just as the tip-yip carcass blackens and catches fire. The astromech droid D-O then extinguishes the flaming bird before a falling tree knocks the bird from the spit. After the party guest Zorii Bliss delivers replacement tip-yips, Dameron later serves a less blackened roast tip-yip during the party.
Engine Roasted Tip-Yip was then named and made canon when it appeared as a recipe in Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook, a 2021 canon recipe book written by Jenn Fujikawa and Marc Sumerak. The out-of-universe recipe calls for a whole chicken, softened and unsalted butter, minced garlic cloves, dried rosemary, extra virgin olive oil, salt, black pepper, half a medium lemon, and a medium sweet onion.
- Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook