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French Snails (Bulots Mayonnaise) Recipe
French Snails (Bulots Mayonnaise) Recipe – Served cold with garlic mayonnaise.
Ingredients:
1/2 kg bulots
1 1/2 liters water
1 glass of dry white wine or a little wine vinegar
1/2 tsp black pepper (grain, not ground pepper)
1 leaf of laurel
Some thyme leaves
Some fresh parsley
Salt to taste
For the Mayonnaise:
1 uncooked egg yolk
1 small teaspoon French mustard from Dijon
Peanut oil
Olive oil
Freshly squeezed lime juice
1 garlic clove
Salt to taste
Method:
Skim when necessary, and let it lightly boil for 40 min.
When cooked, let the snails cool off in their cooking juices. When cold you’ll eat them with thouthpicks. Everything but the opercula is edible.
In a bowl mix the egg yolk and the mustard with a little spoon. Slowly add (little by little) the peanut oil. Add a little olive oil (5 teaspoons) for flavour, and then salt and one teaspoon of fresh lemon juice to taste. Mix everything well and set aside.
Press the garlic clove or cut it into very fine slices. Add the garlic to the mayonnaise to fit your taste. Adjust mayonnaise to your flavour by adding more lemon juice, salt, or garlic to taste.
In French cuisine, snail is a much celebrated delicacy. So, when I was in France, I did it the French way–chowing down a bowl of these sea snails/whelks, or Bulots in French. (Thanks Pip for your information.)
I absolutely loved them and couldn’t get enough. Served cold with garlic mayonnaise, all I could say was “C’est si bon!” (It is so good!)
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I found a recipe of Bulots Mayonnaise here, but for your convenience, I have summarized it below:
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Anonymous
i think c’est si bon is a wrong transalation..
it should be c’est bon!..cause “c’est si bon” means if it IS good.
cheers!
c’est bonne comme ca
joshua
does anyone mind giving me some background info on this eating snail habbits?
Christina
I recently had bulots at a little French restaurant here in New York City where I live.
I loved them and would like to find out where I can find them for purchase (preferably already cooked, but if that is an impossibility I’ll take them any way I can).
Many thanks for any help you may offer.
Christina
Rasa Malaysia
I have never seen them in the US. Tough luck, we have to import from France. ;)