Best Escargots Recipes

EASY GARLIC ESCARGOTS

Steps:

• Place escargots in a small bowl, and cover with cold water; set aside for 5 minutes. This will help to remove the canned flavor they may have.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease an 8x8 inch baking dish.
• Drain the water from the escargots and pat dry with a paper towel. Melt butter with the garlic in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the escargots and mushroom caps; cook and stir until the mushroom caps begin to soften, about 5 minutes.
• Whisk together wine, cream, flour, pepper, and tarragon in a small bowl until the flour is no longer lumpy. Pour this into the skillet, and bring to a boil. Cook, stirring occasionally until the sauce thickens, about 10 minutes.
• Remove the skillet from the heat, and use a spoon to place the mushrooms upside down into the prepared baking dish. Spoon an escargot into each mushroom cap. Pour the remaining sauce over the mushroom caps and into the baking dish. Sprinkle grated Parmesan cheese overtop.
• Bake in preheated oven until the Parmesan cheese has turned golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes.

ESCARGOTS GRATINéS

Steps:

• Drain and rinse the escargots.
• Put escargots, bay leaf and consommé in sauce pan.
• Simmer for 40 minutes without covering.
• Drain the escargots.
• Meanwhile melt butter and add the crushed garlic; set aside.
• Spoon escargots in garlic butter and let rest 2 hours on counter.
• Place escargots in each hole of escargot dish.
• Spoon on garlic butter.
• Cover with grated cheese.
• Set under broiler for 5 minutes.
• Serve with toasts.

CLASSIC ESCARGOTS à LA BOURGUIGNONNE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Purée butter, garlic, parsley, and shallot in a food processor. Season with salt and pepper.
• Divide half the garlic butter among sterilized snail shells. Stuff with snails (1 per shell) and remaining garlic butter.
• Bake 10 minutes.

ESCARGOTS WITH PERSILLADE BUTTER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475 degrees F. Prepare the Persillade Butter: In the bowl of a food processor, add butter, garlic, shallots, parsley, chives, almond flour, salt, pepper, and cayenne. Blend until bright green and uniformly combined, stopping to scrape the sides of the bowl and push down the parsley as needed. Makes 1 cup.
• To cool the butter: Place Persillade Butter on a square of plastic wrap. Roll into a log about the same diameter as the divots of the escargot dish; then wrap tightly, removing as much air as possible. Place in the refrigerator. (Persillade Butter can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 days and in the freezer for up to 1 month.)
• Escargots, part 1: Remove snails from the can and drain; discard the liquid. Escargot can be prepared with or without shells. With shells: Use a small spoon to push a snail into each shell; do not push too deeply, or the snails will be hard to retrieve. Without shells: Place one snail in each divot of an escargot dish.
• Escargots, part 2: Use an offset spatula to pack each snail shell with about 1 tablespoon of the Persillade Butter. Neatly level off the butter at the opening and place in the escargot dish, opening side up. (As the escargots bake, some of the butter will melt out of the shells and into the dish.)Without shells: It's best to use well-chilled Persillade Butter for escargots without shells. Unwrap the log of butter and slice about 1 tablespoon of butter per snail. Cover each snail with a slice of butter. Use a paring knife to trim away the top and bottom of each cherry tomato; then cut in half. Top each snail with a slice of cherry tomato. Place both escargot dishes on a rimmed baking sheet lined with parchment paper (for easy clean-up). Roast in the oven until butter is foaming, 8-10 minutes.
• Remove escargots from oven. Serve hot with escargot forks (optional) and baguette slices.

ESCARGOTS IN PARSLEY-GARLIC BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat 2 teaspoons of butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add the garlic and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute. Scrape the mixture into a food processor and add the remaining butter, parsley and cream. Process until smooth, scraping down the bowl's sides. Mix in the salt and pepper.
• Heat 1 tablespoon of the butter mixture in the saucepan over medium heat. Add the escargots and cook for about 5 minutes. Keep warm. Place the remaining butter mixture in a small saucepan over very low heat. Stir constantly until it liquefies but is thick and creamy. Divide the escargots among 4 small dishes and pour the sauce over them. Serve.

ESCARGOTS à LA BOURGUIGNONNE

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 450°F.
• Using a heavy knife, mince and mash garlic to a paste with 1/8 teaspoon table salt.
• Beat together butter, shallot, garlic paste, parsley, remaining 1/4 teaspoon table salt, and pepper in a small bowl with an electric mixer until combined well. Beat in wine until combined well.
• Divide half of garlic butter among snail shells. Stuff 1 snail into each shell and top snails with remaining butter. Spread kosher salt in a shallow baking dish and nestle shells, butter sides up, in salt.
• Bake snails until butter is melted and sizzling, 4 to 6 minutes. Serve immediately.
• Available at Dean & Deluca (212-226-6800).

ESCARGOTS VOL-AU-VENT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Drain escargots; rinse in cold water and drain again.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the butter, garlic, green onion, parsley, pepper, nutmeg and wine. Mix thoroughly. Place 1 teaspoon of butter mixture into each pastry shell. Top each with 1 escargot, cover with another teaspoon of butter mixture and place mushroom cap on top.
• Arrange pastry shells on a 10x15 inch baking sheet. Bake in a preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown.

SNAILS WITH FROG'S LEGS / ESCARGOTS AUX GRENOUILLES

Steps:

• Preparation 1 1/2 hours.
• Cooking 1 1/4 hours.
• Cook the snails in advance in a court bouillon, then remove them from their shells. Chop them, together with the peeled shallots and a small bunch of well-washed chives.
• Place these ingredients in a saucepan with the wine, cover and simmer for 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, soak the frogs' legs in the milk for 1 hour.
• Drain them, then roll in flour and saute in the butter in a frying pan over a brisk heat for 10 minutes.
• Add the snails, together with their cooking juices, and season with salt and pepper.
• Turn up the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
• Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve.
• White wines: Macon-Clesse, -Lugny, -Vire or -Ige, Hermitage, Crepy.

ESCARGOTS A LA BOURGUIGNONNE

Steps:

• In a small bowl mix the butter, shallots, garlic, parsley, salt and pepper until the butter is soft and the ingredients are thoroughly combined.
• Put about 1/4 tablespoon of the butter in each shell, followed by a snail, and then another 1/4 tablespoon of butter.
• Place on individual oven-proof serving dishes and bake in a 400F (200C) oven for 10 to 15 minutes, until the butter begins to bubble.
• Serve with crusty French bread (baguette) for sopping up the sauce.
• * Canned escargots (snails) can be bought, complete with empty shells for serving, in most supermarkets in the US.

ESCARGOTS BOURGUIGNONNE

Steps:

• In a bowl cream together the butter, shallots, parsley, garlic, lemon.
• juice, Worcestershire and Tabasco, salt, pepper, and Pernod.
• Simmer the drained escargots in a little wine for a few minutes [long enough for them to absorb the wine].
• Drain them.
• Place some of the creamed mixture in each snail shell [using half of the creamed mixture], place escargots on top [one per shell], then top with remaining creamed mixture.
• Place the shells in an oven-proof serving.
• pan and bake them at 450 degrees F. until the butter begins to sizzle.
• Just before serving, sprinkle each escargot with a little dry white wine.

SNAILS IN A WHITE BUTTER SAUCE WITH HERBS (ESCARGOTS AUX FINES HERBES)

Steps:

• Prepare the snails and set them aside.
• Remove the core from the lettuce. Wash the leaves well. Drain well. Stack the leaves and cut them into very thin shreds. There should be about eight cups loosely packed. Set aside.
• Heat two tablespoons of the butter in a skillet and add the lettuce. Cook, stirring, until wilted.
• Combine the shallots, wine and vinegar in a saucepan. Bring to the boil. Cook over high heat until most of the liquid is evaporated.
• Cut the remaining four tablespoons of butter into cubes.
• Stir the shallots with a wire whisk and cook over low heat while adding the butter, two or three cubes at a time. Continue stirring vigorously until all the butter is added. Add the anchovy paste, tarragon, chives and basil.
• Heat the tomato about five seconds in a hot skillet, stirring. Add it to the butter sauce.
• Reheat the lettuce. Spoon an equal portion on top of each toast rectangle. Arrange three snails neatly on the lettuce. Spoon the sauce over each serving and serve.

ESCARGOTS AUX CHAMPIGNONS

Steps:

• Pre-heat the broiler.
• Cream the softened butter with all the rest of the ingredients, except the mushrooms and snails.
• Remove the stems from the mushrooms caps (reserve for other use).
• Stuff each mushroom cap with a snail.
• Cover each snail with a spoonful of the butter mixture.
• Broil stuffed mushrooms for six to eight minutes.

ESCARGOTS IN HERBED CREAM

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400°.
• Place pastry shells on a baking sheet and bake in center of oven for about 25 minutes, or until puffed and browned. Carefully remove the scored tops and set aside. Scoop out any unbaked dough and bake shells for an additional 10 minutes. Transfer to rack and cool.
• While shells are cooling, melt butter in a large skillet. Add shallots and cook over low heat until softened but not yet browned, about 4 minutes.
• Add parsley, cilantro, chives and tarragon, season with salt and pepper and cook over moderate heat for about 3 minutes.
• Add snails and cook for 1 minute.
• Add wine and simmer for 3 minutes.
• Add cream and simmer about 5 minutes, until thickened. Season with salt and pepper.
• Spoon snails and their sauce into pastry shells, top with lids and serve.

EASY FAUX ESCARGOTS

Steps:

• Trim around edges of round tortilla(if you can't find square ones) to make it square.
• Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise(or whipped cream cheese) on top. If you like, you could spread a thin layer of mustard on too.
• Layor on the lettuce(or spinach), then the meat and cheese. Roll up tightly.
• With the seam on the bottom, slice the tortilla into 2" wide pinwheels.
• For the heads, cut a small pickle in half at an angle. Poke 2 small holed in the uncut end and stick pieces of chive with knots at one end in each hole for antennae.( I used scallionn tops, cut a sliver and inserted them).
• Slip each pickle half under the edge of the pinwheel, securing them together with a toothpick if necessary.
• Makes 4-6 pinwheel sandwiches.

CASSOLETTE D'ESCARGOTS AU CHABLIS (SNAILS IN CHABLIS & MUSHR

Steps:

• Peel and finely chop the shallots. Peel and press garlic cloves.
• Clean the mushrooms. Cut them into pieces.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add the chopped shallots and clarify them from 2 to 3 minute.
• Add the drained snails, chicken broth, mushrooms and wine.
• Let simmer for 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
• Pour the cream and add the garlic. Cook another 5 minutes.
• Serve after sprinkling of chopped parsley.

SNAIL BUTTER / BEURRE D'ESCARGOTS

Steps:

• Beat 100 g/4 oz (1 stick) softened butter with 75 g/3 oz (1/2 cup) finely chopped shallot, 2 garlic cloves, ground to a paste, and 30 ml/2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley.
• Add 25 g/1 oz (1 1/2 scant tbsp) salt and 5 ml/1 tsp pepper.
• Form into a log and wrap in plastic wrap.
• Place in freezer or refridgerator till firm and sold.

VEGETARIAN ESCARGOTS WITH PERSILLADE BUTTER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475 degrees F. Prepare the Persillade Butter: In the bowl of a food processor, add butter, garlic, shallots, parsley, chives, almond flour, salt, pepper, and cayenne. Blend until bright green and uniformly combined, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl and push down the parsley as needed. Makes 1 cup.
• Cool the butter: If you plan to use it immediately, transfer Persillade Butter to a bowl, place in the refrigerator, and chill for 15 minutes to allow the butter to set. If storing for later use, place Persillade Butter on a square of plastic wrap. Roll into a log about the same diameter as the divots of the escargot dish; then wrap tightly, removing as much air as possible. Place in the refrigerator. (Persillade Butter can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 days and in the freezer for up to 1 month.) While the butter is chilling, prepare the mushrooms and tomatoes.
• Vegetarian Escargots: Use a paper towel or clean dish cloth to wipe any dirt from the mushrooms. Cut off and discard the stems, then slice each mushroom in half. Place one mushroom half upright in each divot of the escargot baking dish. Slice each tomato in half, and place one in each divot along with the mushrooms. Nestle the remaining mushroom and tomato halves in the center of the dish.
• Place escargot dish on a rimmed baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Place a heaping teaspoon of Persillade Butter on top of each mushroom-tomato combo. Bake until butter is foamy and vegetables are cooked, 8-10 minutes.
• Remove from oven. Serve hot with baguette slices.

A BASIC PREPARATION FOR SNAILS (ESCARGOTS AU COURT-BOUILLON)

Steps:

• This is a basic preparation for snails. The snails are cooked and drained before being used in other recipes.
• Combine all of the ingredients in a saucepan or skillet. Bring to the boil and let simmer for 10 minutes. Let cool and drain.

SAUTéED MUSHROOMS AND ESCARGOTS ON TOAST

Steps:

• Heat a large saucepan over medium heat. Add olive oil and the diced onion and shallot. Season with salt and pepper and cook until tender, 3-5 minutes.
• Add the minced garlic and lower the heat. Add the mushrooms. Season with salt and pepper. Cook until the mushrooms are tender and a lot of the liquid has evaporated at the bottom of the pan, 8-10 minutes. Add escargots last 4 minutes,.
• Add the Sherry to the mushrooms and cook until the flavor of the alcohol has mellowed considerably, 3-5 minutes.
• Add the sour cream and allow it to melt over the mushrooms. Check the seasoning. Add the lemon juice,basil and parsley; taste for seasoning. Bring to a simmer and serve on toast immediately.

ESCARGOTS IN HERBED CREAM

Steps:

• Put the crème fraiche, finely chopped mushrooms and finely chopped small onion in a pot. Heat on high until it starts bubbling. Stir well, fairly often, and then turn heat down a little.
• Cook that about 10 minutes, when the onion should be soft, the mushrooms cooked, and the cream sauce reduced.
• In the meantime, open the can of escargots and rinse them in a sieve, and shake them to dry a little. You've also chopped the herbs.
• Now add the escargots, herbs, garlic, butter, salt and pepper to the pot.
• Stir through, and simmer for about 2 minutes until the escargots/snails are heated through.
• I like to serve this in individual ramekins, with a nice bread roll or French bread, or freshly made bread. And it can stand waiting in a warming oven.