Preparing Peppered Snails

How To Prepare Peppered Snails

Peppered Snails

When it comes to peppers snack, peppered Snails is still the best of all. Peppered snails are a commonly found in restaurants, bars and mostly in beach. Mostly are also served as Small Chops at Weddings Ceremonies, Conference Meetings, Birthday parties and many more to mention...

On the other hand, when you want to go for peppered Snails as a snack and enjoy with cool soft drinks, then you do not need to mind how hot the pepper are.

Ingredients Needed For The Peppered Snails:

- 10 to 15 or 20 medium snails (or as much as you can get)

- Habanero peppers (to the best of your taste)

- 5 plum tomatoes (optional, because we are preparing a hot pepper snacks)

- 1 big enough onion

- 2 cube of tasty cube

- 1½ cooking spoonful of vegetable oil

- Salt (to the best of your taste)

Notes about the ingredients:

° Peppered snails is so easy to prepare. But the only hard work is the cleaning of the snails, once you are done with that, the rest of the preparation is very easy and you have to much more be careful about the quantity of seasoning you are adding to the snails. You can easily go over-seasoned them and you may not till it done which there is no solution for it any more it will just have a salty taste because due to the texture of the meat, it does not absorb much of the seasoning.

° As for the tomatoes, it is optional but it will be OK if you can add just for the kids. But if preparing it for only adult, use as many as much of only habanero peppers so has to make enough stew for the snails. With that, the Peppered Snails will be too hot and all you can taste is the pepper. To avoid this, you can add enough onions.

Before Proceed with the Preparing of the Peppered Snails

1. Remove The Shell of The Snails; this can be done in three ways ¦-

[¡] Break the shells of the snails and
clean the snail slime.

[¡¡] Boil some water, let it be very hot. Pour the snails into a bowl and pour the hot water on it and cover for about 5 minutes after 5 minutes pour out the hot water and remove the snails from the shells and clean the snail slime.

[¡¡¡] Pour the snails into a pot and cook with the shell for 5 minutes after that pour out the hot water and remove the snails from the shells and clean the snail slime.

2. Cut the onion into two equal parts, cut half of the first part into big chunks. Cut the other half into tiny pieces and set aside.

3. Chops the habanero peppers into tiny pieces and set aside.

4. Remove the tomatoes seeds and chop them into thin slices.

Direction for Making the Peppered Snails

1. Set up the cooker or stove, place on it a sizeable pot to cook the snails.

2. Pour some water into the pot to heat up, (but make sure that the water you have pour can cover up the snails when you pour into the pot).

3. When the water have heating up, pour the cleaned snails into the pot cover and continue cooking.

4. When it cook for like 3 minutes add the stock cube and the chunks of onion. (you should use chunks of onion when you want to season with onions without having pieces of onions in your cooking).

5. Cover and continue cooking on a low medium heat. (While cooking, you check time to time so as to top up the water when necessary so it does not get burn).

6. While cooking the snails, set up another cooker or stove to steam the tomatoes, pepper and onions.

7. Pour the sliced tomatoes, pepper and onions in another pot and start cooking on a low medium heat. Stir from time to time so it does not get burn.

8. After like 15 minutes, the snails should be well cooked and getting to done.

Note: The tongue of the snails are still crunchy even when the snails are fully done.

9. Remove the chunks of onion from the snails and start to stir constantly till all the remaining liquid in the pot is absorbed by the snails. Doing this because you don't want to lose any flavour by pouring away the snail stock. But if the stock are too much you may pour out small.

10. When the pepper, tomatoes and onions, have dries up, add the vegetable oil and fry for like 3 minutes. While frying you should not leave it alone keep stirring continuously so it does not stick to the pot or get burn.

11. Add salt and stir for a while for the salt to mix well with the stew.

12. Pour the snails and continue stirring constantly till all mix well. add more salt if necessary and steam for just 4 minutes.

Now you are done with the Peppered Snails... Put off the heat and leave to cool down a bit, insert toothpicks and serve with onions, if you like can add salad If you are entertaining guests or having dinner with the family, serve it as a side dish to any Rice Recipes. You can also serve them with a chilled soft drink. Serving it for parties, make it as Small Chops.