To: Brad Cloven
Cicada Cuisine
Cicadas are a delicacy in the city of Shanghai, China, where this creative recipe originated.
Ingredients
Cicadas, anises, salt, rice wine, mashed garlic, celery, turnip greens.
Recipe
1. Boil the cicadas and anises in salted rice wine for five minutes, then remove the cicadas.
2. Sauté the mashed garlic, adding water and rice wine to make a paste.
3. Deep-fry the cicadas, then skewer them with bamboo picks. Arrange them on a plate with the turnip greens, celery, and garlic paste to look like the cicadas are climbing out of a mud pie onto green foliage. Bon appetit!
16 posted on
05/12/2004 7:55:35 AM PDT by
TBall
(Gotta like seeing a pretty girl with guns.)
To: TBall
Cicada Cuisine Hmmm, I recall the bluejays eating them with great gusto and no preparation time. The darn things are loud and their volume really goes up in a sort of 'death scream' when caught by a jaybird.
To: TBall
Cicada Cuisine Cicadas -- the other white meat.
30 posted on
05/12/2004 8:08:57 AM PDT by
kevkrom
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