Insect recipes
Jílek Matyáš
In the last article, I dealt with insects and their place in the diet, but in this article I wrote you a few insect recipes.
ACACHAPOLI COCKTAIL (from locusts):
Ingredients:
- 250g locusts
- juice of 2 lemons
- salt
- pepper
- 1 teaspoon sliced chili peppers
Directions:
- Boil the locusts in salted water (they turn red during cooking)
- Drain
- Transfer to a frying pan (or baking tray)
- Allow to dry over low fire
- Then just put them on a plate, drizzle with lemon, salt and sprinkle with peppers
SPAGHETTI WITH FLOUR WORM:
Ingredients:
- 250 g flour worms (already fried)
- 4 cups of water
- 1 spoon oil
- marjoram
- thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- onion
- 250g spaghetti
- 7 tablespoons butter
- salt
- 3 tablespoons almonds (chopped)
- 250g cheese
- basil and parsley
Directions:
- Cook the spaghetti in water with oil, marjoram, thyme, bay leaf and onion
- Then drain the spaghetti and rinse with cold water
- Melt the butter in a pan
- Then add the spaghetti, salt and pepper
- Finely chop basil, parsley, almonds and mix with cheese and oil
- Add the spaghetti sauce
- Pour the mealworms on top
PAPANAN’S CRICKET:
Ingredients:
- 8 tablespoons butter
- 1 stick garlic with peeled cloves
- 250 g live crickets
- salt
- parsley
- instant broth (as a side dish of rice)
Directions:
- cut the garlic into slices
- fry them in butter until brown
- add the crickets - salt them and fry until crispy (approx. 4-5 minutes)
- sprinkle with chopped parsley and instant broth
- serve with cooked rice
LOCUSTS ON CURRY:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup oil
- 1 small onion
- 1 clove garlic
- 250g locusts
- anise
- cloves
- curry spice
- mustard
- salt
- pepper
- instant broth
Directions:
- boil the locusts in 7 cup salted water (until they turn pink / about 10 minutes/ )
- then let them dry
- fry the onion and garlic in an oil pan until browned
- then add locusts, anise, cloves, curry, mustard, salt, pepper and instant broth
- pour a little water over everything and let it evaporate
- serve with cooked rice or on toast
ANT PUDID:
Ingredients:
- 250g ants
- 1kg granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- a pinch of vanilla and nutmeg
Directions:
- let 0.5 kg of sugar caramelize in the pan and cover the bottom of the mold with it
- mix eggs, vanilla milk and the rest of the sugar, add fried ants to the mixture and put in a caramel mold
- cook for an hour or more in a water bath before the mixture solidifies
- before the pudding cools, tip it over a plate
