RECIPES
Here's some sample recipes of some delicious, nutritious and sustainable insect based snacks and meals.
Chocolate Chirp Cookies
Ingredients:
Pre-heat the oven to 190C. Mix together butter, all the sugar, the vanilla and beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Beat in the eggs and then slowly add flour, salt and baking soda. Stir in the nuts, insects and chocolate chips. Place rounded teaspoonfuls of the mixture onto a greased baking tray and put in the oven for 8-10 minutes. Source: Iowa State University Entomology Club |
Grasshopper Kebabs
(For the marinade)
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Mix all the ingredients for the marinade in a glass bowl or baking dish. Add the insects, cover and leave in the fridge over night. When ready to cook remove the insects and gently pat them dry. Skewer the ingredients alternating between pepper, onion and insects so skewers are nicely arranged. Finally drizzle some olive oil over the kebabs and cook a few inches above a fire for just under 10 minutes, or alternatively under the grill turning regularly until allt he ingredients are a golden brown and crispy.
Source: David George Gordon on the Business insider
Source: David George Gordon on the Business insider
References
Strap.G (2013) Top 11 bug recipes. The Telegraph. [Accessed on 20 Aug 2014] Available at URL http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/10401191/Top-11-bug-recipes.html
Katie Cook, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia