Cicada - Shrimp of the Land

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  • TXBelle1174
    TXBelle1174 Posts: 615 Member
    I'm reasonably certain they would make a better pizza crust than cauliflower.

    ^^ THIS!
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    I don't have the chutzpah for it.
  • Izzwoz
    Izzwoz Posts: 348 Member
    Flash fried or grilled for me - also great on a skewer with chorizo and courgette, nomm!
  • tonybalony01
    tonybalony01 Posts: 613 Member
    If they're really the "shrimp of the land", I'm pumped to try some Cicada scampi or buffalo cicada or maybe some popcorn cicada.
    If I'm not feeling too imaginative, I guess I could just do some cicada kebabs on the grill.
    Great! Now I'm hungry. Where can I get me some of these bad boys?
  • icimani
    icimani Posts: 1,454 Member
    Cicada-Rhubarb Pie

    Ingredients:
    4 cups chopped rhubarb
    1 cup fresh cicadas, washed and any hard parts removed 1 1/3 cups white sugar
    6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
    1 tablespoon butter
    1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie

    Directions:
    1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
    2. Combine sugar and flour. Sprinkle 1/4 of it over pastry in pie plate.
    Heap rhubarb over this mixture. Sprinkle cicadas in amongst the rhubarb. Sprinkle with remaining sugar and flour. Dot with small pieces of butter. Cover with top crust.
    3. Place pie on lowest rack in oven. Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and continue baking for 40 to 45 minutes.

    Yield:
    Makes 1 pie (8 servings).


    Just How many cicadas (minus the hard parts) does it take to make a cup?
  • sdbart
    sdbart Posts: 189 Member
    If they're really the "shrimp of the land", I'm pumped to try some Cicada scampi or buffalo cicada or maybe some popcorn cicada.
    If I'm not feeling too imaginative, I guess I could just do some cicada kebabs on the grill.
    Great! Now I'm hungry. Where can I get me some of these bad boys?

    Popcorn cicada's with cocktail and tartar sauce actually sounds really yummy. The Cicada scampi also would be something I'd try... as long as they got all the "crunchy" out of the cicadas.
  • Silver_Star
    Silver_Star Posts: 1,351 Member
    Cicada snacks

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    fried cicadas in Thailand

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  • ihad
    ihad Posts: 7,463 Member
    They are apparently an excellent source of lean protein...


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  • BeachGingerOnTheRocks
    BeachGingerOnTheRocks Posts: 3,927 Member
    I ate them when I was a kid. A neighbor boy and I decided to put some on an open flame when I was around 6. We skewered them and cooked them like roasting marshmallows. We did it to be mean and dare each other to eat them, but it turned out they tasted good.

    REALLY good. They get crispy like a chip with some chewy, meaty bits. They tasted a little like toasted sesame seeds.

    My mother grounded me for eating a bug. :frown:

    ETA: over 600% RDA for iron in 100 grams of cicadas. That is a huge amount of iron.
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    I'm reasonably certain they would make a better pizza crust than cauliflower.

    QFT

    ETA:

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  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    They are apparently an excellent source of lean protein...


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    That actually isn't very good at all.....Chicken(and shrimp) have over twice the grams of protein for about the same number of calories......
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    EASY CICADA PROTEIN SMOOTHIE

    Pure 16 oz of milk into blender
    Add two handfuls of live cicadas
    Blend to desired texture

    Enjoy!

    You forgot the red eye garnish.
  • Ashwee87
    Ashwee87 Posts: 695 Member
    Cicada Skins = Redneck Pork Skins

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  • MsMuniz
    MsMuniz Posts: 399 Member
    Cicada Recipes

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/cicada-recipes_n_3272597.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    They are apparently an excellent source of lean protein...


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    That actually isn't very good at all.....Chicken(and shrimp) have over twice the grams of protein for about the same number of calories......

    Not everything can be chicken.
  • laughingdani
    laughingdani Posts: 2,275 Member
    I literally just threw up in my mouth. Bravo.
  • Ashwee87
    Ashwee87 Posts: 695 Member
    I literally just threw up in my mouth. Bravo.

    Says the one with a bloody lioness in their ticker. ;P
  • JaneDough_
    JaneDough_ Posts: 301 Member
    What?

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  • cosmic8o8
    cosmic8o8 Posts: 131 Member
    Ugh, these pictures of cicada food stuffs are horrid.
  • TheKitsune6
    TheKitsune6 Posts: 5,798 Member
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