Mushroom Snail Salad
In Burgundy, snails are a familiar dish. For us, the appearance of this delicacies on the table – a sure sign of the holiday. In a salad or under sauce – it’s a miracle how good these snails are. The recipe for March 8 is doomed to success is delicious and original.
Mushroom Snail Salad 
The easiest way to deal with terrestrial mollusks in Switzerland. They are simply boiled in fragrant spicy water, finely chopped and served with all kinds of seasonings. Food lovers believe that catching snails, then there is to collect for a meal, you need only in the morning. And how they are fed! In France, for example, they hold the future delicacy at a special aromatic diet of thyme and other no less odorous herbs. Since we see the usual diet of the French most often frozen, we will cook from what you can buy in “market”.
To make a salad of snails, you will need:
- Meat of snails (usual packaging of boiled and frozen mollusks) – 125g
- Champignons – about 200-300g.
- Onion – a fairly average size of 1 pc.
- Garlic, pepper mixture, balsamic vinegar.
So that the snail meat does not seem fresh, give it a flavor. Boil water, adding spices or herbs, lower for a few minutes there clam meat. Drain and add to the company to snails a little balsamic vinegar. Of course read instructions. Manufacturers are different, the degree of readiness also. But meaning, in general, one – the aroma of spices and a little acid. Be then rice vinegar, wine, or, as in our case, red or white balsamic vinegar.
Make a salad of snails can be as follows:
Mix the meat boiled with spices with the fried on butter with mushrooms. In our recipe, these are champignons. Instead any forest gifts – from oyster mushrooms to rare shiitake (how to cook this healthy delicacy, you can look in the recipe “shiitake with rice”).
This is the basis of the snail salad. Great fueling options lots of. You can use a mixture of regular mayonnaise with sour cream, or “conjure” a special mixture. It includes peanut butter (about 2 tablespoons), a little Tabasco sauce. If green, it means a little more dosage (it is not so sharp), but with Tabasco red – be careful, because the sauce is very burning.
But a special addition to the festive dish is sauce with nuts and garlic. Making it is also not difficult. Grind your favorite nuts with garlic, herbs, add a little sour cream to the mass – garlic-nut sauce is ready.
Tasty ideas
Serve a salad with the most incredible imagination. Will be beautifully lay snail and mushroom mass in tartlets, potato baskets, into envelopes from thin pancakes, into lush buns from puff pastry. The participation of men in the preparation of the original salad, skill and fantasy flight in honor of March 8 only welcome.
