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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
25 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Snails are one of the types of snails that are chewy and delicious, very appealing to the taste buds. Roll up your sleeves and showcase your skills by making a delicious and unique dish of steamed snails with pepper to treat your family this weekend. Let’s join Điện máy XANH in the kitchen and prepare this steamed dish.
Ingredients for Steamed Snails with Pepper For 2 people
Snails 500 gr Lemongrass 3 stalks Chili 3 pieces Garlic 4 cloves Cooking oil 1 tablespoon Fish sauce 2 tablespoons Common seasonings a little (salt/ sugar/ monosodium glutamate/ ground pepper)
How to choose fresh, delicious snails
- You should choose snails that are still alive, have a quick reaction when touched, and have a slightly fishy smell.
- The size should be just right, the body should be snug in the shell, firm, and the scales should be on the outside and close when touched.
- Do not choose snails that are too large or have a strange smell, soft bodies, and scales on the outside. These may be snails that have just died or have been dead for a while.
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How to Prepare Steamed Snails with Pepper
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Preparing the Snails
After buying the snails, soak them in salted water for about 1 – 2 hours, so the snails can expel all the sand and impurities. Then, rinse the snails several times with water and let them drain.
How to Clean the Snails, Removing All Sand- Method 1: Soak the snails in rice washing water for about 1 hour to let the snails expel all the sand. The impurities from the rice will help the snails clean themselves, and you just need to rinse them well afterward.
- Method 2: Soaking in diluted lemon and salt water for about 1 hour is also an effective way to clean the snails.
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Preparing Other Ingredients
Wash the chili, remove the stems, chop 1 chili finely, and slice 2 chilies. Peel 4 cloves of garlic and mince them using a knife.
Wash the lemongrass with clean water, then cut it in half, keeping the top part whole and slicing the stem finely.
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Boil the snails
Place a pot of water on the stove, turn on high heat to bring the water to a boil quickly.
To make the snails less slimy, fragrant, and cook faster, wait for the water to boil before adding the snails and the whole lemongrass, boil for about 15 minutes, then scoop them out and let them cool.
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Steam the snails with pepper
Place a new pot on the stove, add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, and turn on medium heat to heat the oil. When the oil is hot, add garlic and 1/3 of the minced lemongrass to sauté until fragrant.
Once the garlic and lemongrass are golden, add about 250ml of filtered water. Then, wait for the water to boil and add all the snails that were just scooped out, stir well, allow the snails to absorb the seasoning, then cover the pot and wait for it to boil again.
Next, open the lid and add 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of seasoning powder, 1.5 tablespoons of ground pepper, stir well, then reduce the heat, cover the pot, and steam for another 5 minutes.
Tip: Depending on your family’s taste, you can reduce the amount of seasoning and ground pepper to suit.Finally, for the dipping sauce, you put into a bowl 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, the remaining minced lemongrass, and sliced chili, then mix well for the flavors to blend together. That’s it.
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Final Product
Steamed snails with pepper are completed with the flavors from lemongrass and pepper, the broth is fragrant, slightly sweet, and the snail meat is chewy and firm. When served with a little dipping sauce like lemongrass chili sauce, it will be even more wonderful.
Distinguishing between freshwater snails and black snails
- Freshwater snails are smaller than black snails, their shells are dark green and have many light yellow stripes on the shell.
- Black snails are usually darker in color and have a smooth body without stripes, while the tail is sharper than that of freshwater snails.
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Quickly get into the kitchen and cook the dish pepper steamed freshwater snails with the recipe that Điện máy XANH shares with you. Wish you success!
*Refer to the recipe and images from the YouTube channel Lee Vlog
