How to Remove Slime From Snails

Snails are very nutritious and beneficial to the body but before we can enjoy them, there are some steps we have to follow. The most important of which is removing the sticky substance they have.

The following items can remove snail slime:

1. Salt

Salt has an abrasive property that is why it is used to remove snail slime. Simply pour lots of salt into a bowl of shelled snails. Rub the salt on the snails till the slime is gone.

2. Garri

Garri is Nigeria's grain staple food used in preparing Eba, a type of fufu meal. Garri works the same way as salt. Pour lots of Garri grains on a bowl of shelled snails and rub till the slime is gone. Garri is quite expensive and is essential commodity if you live outside Nigeria so it’s a no-no for me. I strictly reserve my Garri for Asoki things. LOL

3. Lime

The acid in lime juice attacks snail slime and cleans up the snail quickly.

4. Lemon

Though lime and lemon have acidic properties but I find that lemon is more efficient than lime. Maybe lemon's acid is more active than that of lime. You can see the slime curdle almost as soon as you sprinkle lemon juice on the snails.

Lemon is the most efficient of all the items that remove snail slime especially when you are cleaning a bowl of snails.

5. Alum

Alum is the most effective of all the items that can remove snail slime. It gives the snails a squeaky clean. It takes a lot of hard work though and it is not as efficient at cutting the slime as lemons especially at the beginning when the slime is still very thick and concentrated.

3. snail slime is no longer that slimy.


4. When done, rinse and continue with alum. Concentrate on rubbing the alum in the parts where the lemons did not reach. Spread the tongue of the snail and rub the alum in there.


5. When it feels squeaky clean, rinse very well in plenty of water.


6. Cut the tongue of the snail and clean the exposed area with alum.


7. Rinse again in plenty of cool water to remove all traces of alum from the snails. Once you rinse very well, the alum will not change the taste of the snail.
   
   source:All Nigerian Recipes Blog