Snails cooked in ginger, lemongrass and chili

Cooking time: 10 min. / 5 min.Difficulty: easy

RecipesVietnam

Once in a fisherman village, Nam `O in Vietnam, I was offered a seat by a table with a plastic bag full of snails, got a few thorns to get them out of their shells ..... and like this I was introduced to one of the most frequent seafood street food in Vietnam. It doesn't have to be seafood actually as you can use fresh water snails too.

Process

Rinse snails 3 times in salty water.

Pour water in a pot, to reach about 1/3 of snail level (without the snails yet). Get to boil. Add ginger, lemon grass and chili, slightly ground in mortar. Add chafed lemon leaves and snails. Cover and cook 5 minutes.

Mix all ingredients for dip. 

When the snails are ready, serve warm. Take them out of their shells by a toothpick and dip.

 

To buy a fish sauce USUK, Europe, To buy a lemon grass USUK, Europe

Ingredients

For 4 portions:

For dip:

  • 2 tbs lime juice
  • 2 ½ tbs fish sauce
  • 2 tbs sugar
  • ½ cup water
  • red chilli pepper without seeds, fine chopped 
  • 1 small garlic clove, fine chopped 
  • 2 fresh lemon or kaffir leaves, fine chopped
  • 1 tsp lemon grass, fine chopped

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