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Live Snails (4 Large Pcs)
₦8,625.00
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Description
Snails are highly nutritious and contain less fat. Snails are added to Nigerian soups like egusi, efo riro, afang, ogbono soups, etc. It can also be fried and seasoned with fried pepper.
How to wash Snails
After removing the snail from the shell, the next thing to do is remove its guts, the snail gut is a white sac attached to the snail; take it out completely using your fingers. Then using a knife, cut the snail meat open along the natural line you see on it ( this is what gives snails the “butterfly” shape it has after being washed).
You can then proceed to removing slime and washing the snails clean for cooking.
How to remove Snail slime
How to use salt
- Put snails in a bowl
- Pour a lot of salt over the snails in the bowl.
- Massage salt into snails using your hands, you will see the slime come off as you do this.
- Rinse snails thoroughly with water, repeat the process if necessary until the snails are clean.
How to lime/ lemon and alum
- Put the snails in a bowl, Cut lime/ lemon into 2 and squeeze out juice over snails into a bowl of water containing snails. Massage the juice into all the parts of the snails. Use the cuts of squeezed lime/lemon to scrub the snails especially the hidden parts.
- Rinse then wash again with alum, concentrate on using the alum especially on the areas the lime/lemon could not reach.
- Rinse thoroughly with water.
Additional information
| Weight | 10 kg |
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