Grilled snails with pepper is a rural dish of Can Tho, with easy material to find, and simple process. However, to cook the dish very well and especially is mainly people’s secret here.
Normally, after snails are caught, they are soaked into washing water of the rice, so that snails pull out mucus. Soaking time is about 20 to 30 minutes. After soaking well, we boil snails in a short time, and then leave them onto hot charcoal to grill snails. Grilled snails only gain the best level when being grilled with coal, because at that time, the dish has a natural aroma and snail’s meat is grilled well. As grilling snails onto the coal fire, you do not forget to turn over gradual hands, and put snail’s face down the charcoal, if not, it is easy to fire snail’s shell and meat. During grilling, please adding spices so that the dish is more glutinous. Prepared spices include fish extract, garlic, and sugar. The aromatic and spicy snail dish is mainly the resonance of these spices.
When smelling snail’s delicious taste, water in snail is near drainage, it means that snail dish reaches its maturity. Pick up every snail into disk, decorating with slices of herbs. The dish is suitable with mints. As tasting, the grilled snails with pepper have the delicious taste of coal, the sweet and crispy level of snails. The grilled snails with pepper are eaten in right way when slurping the spicy sauce inside snails. The salty, bitter taste of snail water makes the dish more interesting and stranger. So maybe eating the dish, people do not need to add more any other sauces.