How to prepare sweet and tasty peppered snail
Craving the perfect appetizer to keep the mouth busy and tummy ready before the main dish? Peppered snail is the answer.
Cooking time
1 hour 45 minutes
Recipe category
Snack/Appetizers
Recipe cuisine
Local
Cooking method
Frying
Recipe Yield
4 servings
Ingredients
- 4 Extra large snails
- 6 Medium scotch bonnet pepper (finely chopped)
- 2 Medium tomatoes (finely chopped)
- Vegetable oil
- 1 medium onion (chopped)
- 1 sliced green bell pepper (sliced)
- curry powder
- seasoning cubes
- Alum and lemons/lime
- salt
Instructions
- Wash the snails with lemons or lime using alum till the slime and smell are gone.
- Pour the snails in a pot and add some water. Add salt, seasoning cube, some chopped onion and cook until soft, then drain from the stock and set aside.
- Heat a pan of oil and fry the snails for just a bit. Set aside.
- Heat a pan of oil again and pour in the rest of the onions. Saute till translucent.
- Add the peppers and tomatoes. Fry for 2 minutes then add some salt, seasoning and some curry powder.
- Add the hot fried snail and continue stir-frying for 1 minute (To allow the snail marinate in the sauce, the snail should go straight into the pepper sauce immediately as it is taken off the hot oil). Leave for 5 minutes and turn off the heat.
Your peppered snails snack is ready! Serve with cold drinks.