How do snakes eat?
Ways of making such a delicacy assnake meat is very much, and the choice of the recipe depends mainly on the type of snake. From reptiles prepare soups, "shish kebabs" and dishes on a brazier, stew and bake with vegetables, and some people of the world can eat raw flesh of snakes.
Carcase Making
If the snake was only caught and still alive, thenit must be killed. To do this, the animal is taken by the head with two fingers so that it does not bite, put on the board and cut off this very head. Some cooks offer to hang for an hour and a half a snake without a head for the tail. This is done so that all the blood flows out of it. By the way, in some countries snake blood is drunk in raw form. Then the body of the killed snake is rinsed several times under the stream of water.
After this, the skin is cut along the body,to take out the insides and freshen the carcass (remove the skin). Clearing meat from the skin is easier again under water, while the flesh is washed immediately. The skin is tried to be removed entirely, as it can also be used for cooking certain dishes. At the end of the trunk, the skin is harder to remove, so you can use a knife. After the final separation of the flesh of the snake from the skin, everything is again thoroughly washed, both skin and meat.
After all the manipulations done, cuttingbelly snake, it removes the intestines and other intestines. It is necessary to clean the abdominal cavity well, so that no black films remain in it, since after cooking they can be bitter. After separating the viscera, the carcass is washed again with running water.
Methods of cooking snake meat
Snakes eat differently, depending on the type of reptile used. Not all snakes are edible, so it's important to know what snakes are eating and which ones are not.
Here are some of the most popular cooking recipes for snakes:
Fried Snake
This is one of the simplest and most common dishesAsian cuisine. Prepare it will not be difficult even for the most inexperienced cooks. Even if the snake was poisonous, there is no need to fear that a person will be poisoned by eating the meat of such an animal. All the poison is contained only in the head, which the snake loses at the very beginning of the cutting, as described above. Before cooking, many cooks prefer to soak snake meat - in milk or white dry wine, to eliminate the specific smell of this reptile's meat.
Before roasting the meat, you need to add to itSpices that are selected to taste. According to the recipe for classic Asian cuisine, for example, slices (5-6 cm) of meat are offered to be rubbed with soy sauce and cloves, salt is not added, as the sauce already contains it. Fry the meat in vegetable oil until a golden hue appears. Serve to the table with vodka or other hot drinks, without rice or potatoes, that is - without garnish.
Snake soup
It is considered a very tasty and useful dish. But it will have to cook long enough - to cook snake meat for about 10 hours in a large volume of water (5-6 liters). So much time is required for the meat to become usable, otherwise it will be tough and "rubbery". By the time the meat is ready, the water should boil out by about two-thirds.
When the snake is ready, it is taken out of the broth andcut into small circles, one centimeter thick. In the parallel, add the chicken fillet, cut into small pieces, bring to a boil and remove the foam with a noise. Then the snake's meat is again put in broth and salt it. From the seasonings add cloves, cinnamon and coriander. Served such a soup with breads, greased with soy sauce.
Snake meat in deep-fried
Fry snake meat and deep-fried. Meat should be divided as described above, then it must be soaked for two hours in milk. Sliced large pieces of soaked meat to roll in corn flour or crushed breadcrumbs and fry in deep-fried. This dish is served with hot sauces (chili, wasabi) to beer or other low-alcoholic beverages.
There are a huge number of recipescooking snake meat and especially their many in Asian cuisine. Many videos of how snakes eat in traditional restaurants and on the streets in Asian countries have become popular and lured into the camp of snake meat lovers, which is famous for its unusual taste and medicinal properties, more and more gourmets.
