What is a snail? 2 ways to make delicious restaurant-standard fried eggplant with garlic butter and lemongrass

Snails are quite popular snail dishes to prepare this species of snail. Today, Tnhelearning.edu.vn will show you how to make delicious fried eggplant with lemongrass and chili, this restaurant standard for your family meal!

What is a snail?

Coffee snails

Ca na snails, also known as areca snails, usually live in coastal areas of Vietnam . Canna snails have a pointed head and a slightly twisted body, about the size of a little finger. The snail has a very characteristic green color and looks like a cana fruit , so it is often called a snail. Ca na snails are often processed into dishes such as: sautéed ca Na snails with lemongrass and chili, fried snails with garlic butter

Sauteed Snails with Garlic Butter

Prepare
5 Minutes Processing
45 minutes For
2 people

Snails sautéed with butter is a delicious and fun dish for gatherings with relatives and friends. This snail dish will make your family atmosphere happier and busier than ever.

Ingredients for fried snail with garlic butter

• 500g canamon snails
• Butter
• Minced garlic
• Ginger
• Lemongrass
• Seasoning: Fish sauce, seasoning, sugar, satay

Good tip: How to choose fresh and delicious calamari

– Fresh and delicious cana fish are usually raw snails. Just a small operation is to touch the snail’s mouth, the ones that are alive will be scaled and close their mouths.
– Choosing fresh, raw snails is not enough, you should choose stout, firm ones. To know they are round, stout, you just have to look at their snail scales. The round fat ones always show their scales to the outside.
– In addition, the smell of snails also affects the freshness and deliciousness of snails. Fresh snails have a fishy smell from mud and sand but not annoying. But with dead snails, they often have a bad smell that creates a pungent and unpleasant feeling.

How to make butter fried snails

Step 1Process materials

Snails you soak and wash with salt water, drain. Then, catch a pot of boiling water, put lemongrass, sliced ginger into it . After about 1 minute, you put the snails in and boil for about 4-5 minutes , then the water boils, you take out the snails to drain.

Boil the ca na with crushed lemongrass and a few slices of ginger

Step 2Sauteed snails

Put the pan on the stove, wait for the pan to heat up and add 1 tablespoon of butter.

Put 1 tablespoon of butter in a hot pan

Melt butter, add minced garlic and fry until golden brown, add 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of MSG and mix garlic butter with spices. Next, you add 1 tablespoon of satay chili and stir until the seasoning has just dissolved, then add a little water and stir until the mixture thickens.

Add satay to the mix

After the mixture is thick, add the snails and stir-fry with your hands on medium heat for about 15-20 minutes.

Stir-fry the canamon with the mixture until the mixture is absorbed into the snails

Finished product

The dish of fried snails with butter does not smell, the fishy smell of snails, but instead is the sweet aroma of butter and garlic. The seasoning is evenly absorbed into the tough, crunchy snail meat. This dish is suitable for eating on weekends, gathering with friends and drinking a few cold beers.

Stir-Fried Cauliflower Snails with Butter

Stir-fried eggplant with lemongrass and chili

The second dish is fried snail with lemongrass and chili. Stir-fried Ca Na snail with lemongrass and chili is a familiar dish to Vietnamese people and the way to prepare it is also extremely simple.

Prepare
120 Minutes Processing
30 Minutes For
2 – 3 people

Ingredients for fried snail with lemongrass and chili

• 1kg snails
• 2 tablespoons minced lemongrass
• 2 lemongrass slices
• 2 tablespoons minced red onion
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic
• 1 tablespoon sliced chili
• 1 tablespoon dried chili
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 2 tablespoons cashew oil
• 10g lemon leaves
• Cooking oil, sugar, monosodium glutamate, fish sauce, satay, chili sauce
• 2 loaves of bread
• Utensils: Pan, spoon, soup ladle, pot, basket and basin, cup

Ingredients for fried snail with lemongrass and chili

Good tip

– To prepare this dish, you should choose fresh and delicious snails. When you touch the snail’s mouth, it will automatically retract and close. Do not choose slimy snails, snail scales are indented because the snails have died, left for a long time.
– You should choose a slightly larger snail, the snail’s scale is close to the edge of the mouth. Those are the fat, fresh snails.

Steps to make fried snail with lemongrass and chili

Step 1Process materials

Snail processing

You soak the snails in cold water with a little sliced chili for about 2-3 hours and then take them out. If you don’t have chili at home, you can soak it with salt or lemon.

After soaking, rinse with water and take out the basket to dry.

Note : you soak the snail to remove the sand and slime in the snail. But you do not soak the snail for too long because that way the snail will die, when processing the dish is not delicious.

Step 2Blanch the snails in boiling water

Blanch the snails in boiling water

When the water boils, you put the snails in to blanch to remove the fishy smell of the snails. You only need to blanch for about 5 minutes, no need to cook because then you have to stir-fry the snails.

Step 3Sauteed snails

Sauteed snails

In a pan, add about 3 tablespoons of oil. When the oil starts to boil, add 2 tablespoons of minced shallot, 2 tablespoons of minced garlic and sauté until fragrant. Next, you add 2 tablespoons of minced lemongrass, 1 tablespoon of minced chili, 1 tablespoon of dried chili to stir-fry together and 2 tablespoons of cashew oil to create color.

You put water in. Depending on the number of snails you stir-fry, add the corresponding water . Here, if I stir-fry 1kg of snails, I should add 2 cups of water. Next, you add 1 tablespoon of satay, 1 patch of chili sauce soup, 1 patch of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of monosodium glutamate, ½ patch of sugar soup. Stir until the seasoning dissolves. When the water boils, add the snails and stir-fry.

Stir -fry until the water turns iron, about 20 minutes . You turn on high heat while sautéing the snails so that the spices can fully penetrate the snails. During the stir-frying process, you can season to suit your taste!

When the water is almost dry, add 2 pieces of lemongrass, 10g of lemon leaves and 1 tablespoon of paprika, mix well and then turn off the heat.

Finished product

Snails stir fried with lemongrass and chili delicious restaurant standard

Finally, the delicious restaurant standard fried snail with lemongrass and chili has been completed. Snail meat is chewy, fragrant, and evenly seasoned. You can also serve it with bread.

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