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Snails with Garlic Butter (Escargots à la Bourguignonne)

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 4 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Snack, Baked

Tags: appetizer, baked, easy, french, recipes using butter, recipes using garlic, recipes using mushroom, recipes using snail, recipes with images

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ASnails_with_Garlic_Butter_%28Escargots_%C3%A0_la_Bourguignonne%29)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ASnails%20with%20Garlic%20Butter%20%28Escargots%20%C3%A0%20la%20Bourguignonne%29&oldid=4502308

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 24 canned snails
  • ½ lb butter, softened
  • 1 tbsp minced shallots
  • 1 tsp grated or minced garlic
  • 1½ tbsp fresh chopped parsley
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper, to taste
  • 24 snail shells, with snail serving dishes, and snail tongs OR 4 glazed indented earthenware snail serving dishes OR 24 small mushroom caps, trimmed and de-gilled

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
  2. Drain and rinse the snails.
  3. Combine the butter with the shallots, garlic, parsley, salt, and pepper, and blend well.
  4. Sauté the mushroom caps, if using, in a small amount of garlic butter until cooked but still firm. Remove from the heat.
  5. If using snail shells, place a snail in each shell and fill the rest of the space with garlic butter. If using a snail dish without the shells, place a snail in each indentation and fill the rest of the space with garlic butter. If using mushroom caps, place 2–3 snails in each cap and top with a generous amount of garlic butter.
  6. Heat the snails in the oven for 5–7 minutes, and serve with copious quantities of French bread for soaking up the garlic butter.