Exotic Cuisine: How to cook and eat spiders?


Spider - a huge set. And where they are particularly numerous where they were huge, meaty, even if I may say so, calmly eating spiders. Even the most dangerous, the most poisonous.

Of course, for the most part this applies to South-East Asia, as in the case of seafood, what was written in the first part.

One can imagine the kind of menu:

Recipes of Hot and cold spiders appetizers.

Tarantula

Many everyday stories, tales, songs composed about this monster. And even dances - many well-known Italian (mainly Sicily) tarantella dance is directly connected with the tarantula. The only way to treat the deadly bite of the ancient inhabitants of southern Italy have seen only in a kind of exorcism: a very fast rhythmic music and the same movement. First record of the ritual healing dates back to 1100 year! But the most interesting that this tradition is correct and now - just play and dance. Truly, seriously. All European musicians like to use the music of a tarantella, moreover, it is used in the treatment of depression and hysteria.

Tarantella deserves a separate talk big, but for now back to appetizers.

In Thailand, tarantulas happy to eat. Prepare simple: tear off limbs and fried in butter with salt and garlic. Serve with noodles.

In Cambodia, the same thing - it may just be a street light snack. The taste - somewhere between chicken and fish, such a strange white meat. I must say - she did not touch, but other people shared their impressions. Sometimes carelessly prepared, and then mouth sense wool.

Cooking Hot spider dishes

Scorpions and other

In Laos and Papua New Guinea are treated a spider zolotopryadami. Somebody slap someone grilled on charcoal, and many eat raw. Spider is also poisonous, though its venom is not as toxic as a tarantulas. Nevertheless - know how to eat. They say the taste is close to the taste of raw potatoes and lettuce.

In Beijing, you can snack from street vendors kebabs of centipedes and scorpions (and seahorses, including, although it is already back on the seafood). All this charm are strung like beads on wooden sticks and fried Grills. Outside the crunches in sweet-sticky. In China, there are scorpions and raw. A simple soup can cook: About 40 well-washed scorpions fried with slices of pork, ginger, garlic and pepper, then add water and carrots. All this is boiled 40 minutes.

The restaurants in Singapore fried scorpions. They are served on a slice of rye bread with boiled asparagus. Scorpio eaten whole - with the tail and jaws. Sting, of course, always removed in the first place.


Cooking Spider Desserts

Because scorpions are made and sweets. They are sold in many countries, but not all donuts are ready to try a scorpion or a Grasshopper in chocolate candy.

On the Internet, a lot of videos with eating creepy creatures, it is easy to find. These are the spider's specialties, it is quite natural for Asia. In our culture, spider - the hero of "not our novel, and the question of whether to join a different food culture, not even worth it. Although the absolute value of the protein product, the reaction to this personally seen the value of the plate can be unpredictable.

But the most curious - is the insects in the kitchen. That is not in the room the kitchen, and on the plate, as a variety of dishes. On this - the next time.