insects in gastronomy

In the future, the insects will be present in the gastronomy. The insects are source of proteins. The population eat more and more insects. There are differents recipes like this :

 

Grasshopper Fritters
from 'Ronald Taylor's "Butterflies in My Stomach"

3/4 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
3/4 c milk
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 c grasshoppers
1 pt. heavy cream beaten stiff

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together into a bowl. Slowly add milk and beat until smooth. Add egg and beat well.
Pluck off grasshopper wings and legs, heads optional. Dip insects in egg batter and deep fry. Salt and serve.
 

                                                                                                                         PRUVOST Corentin

MAKLES Carine

SION Justine

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Recipe insect food.

Salad « cri-cri »

 

Ingredies

green salad

Redpepper

Tomato

grated carrots

diverse vegetables

Put crickets in decoration.

You will have an original salad !

Bunch of crickets.

 

 

Ingredies

3/5 crickets by 1 people

Tomato

Greenpepper

Oinon

Thyme

Put in this order : tomato, greenpepper, oinion, crickets (put in the oven about ten seconds)

Salt slightly and put the thyme and make roast in the ember.

 

Fried larvas.

Put the larvas in the hot oil.

You can put the larvas in the flour before the hot oil to make doughnuts

 

Bananas singed in insects and in rum

Ingredies

Banana

Crickets

Rum

In a frying pan put banana, put the crickets and the rum, make burn few minutes. You can eat with ice cream and whipped cream.

Eat insects !

                                

 

In world, we can eat today insects in differents forms : direct or indirect.

As there is less and less meat, the Scientifics showed that it was good eating insects which give vitamins B ;B2 ; and D.

This gastronomy that has already started is called « alternative food » and the insects are less expensive and more vitamined than meat.

 The insects are future !!!

Marry Cordowinius

An american breakfast

Do you want to take an american breakfast ? I suggest you locuts pancakes caramelized. In fact, because of population growth, we have to find solutions so as to feed everybody. Entomophagy is one of the more important one. Thanks to this, restaurants can propose you new receipts such as locusts pancakes caramelized which is a traditional breakfast in America, of course without insects. This is the french touch.
 

 

 

You can also savor a traditional japanese dish :

 

Pizz’Bugs

Ingredients (for a pizza 25 cm)

1 pizza dough
10 g of dried insects
5 small mushrooms paris
1 tomato coulis
black olives
grated cheese

Preparation

1.On pizza dough, spread the tomato sauce.
2.Trancher into thin strips Paris mushrooms and place on the pizza.
3.Add insects and dried black olives.
4.Parsemer grated cheese.
5.Mettre oven thermostat 7 (210 ° C) for 1/2 hour or more if necessary.

 

Pancakes Jig

Ingredients

 

Insects between 30 and 40 (go to the well for this recipe)
150 g flour
70 g chocolate
3 eggs
1 ½ glass of milk
sugar
butter
Put the cider cool and go!

1) Mix flour, eggs, milk, a little sugar and 20 g of butter into pieces in order to make a batter . Add the chopped insects ( at the last moment not to blacken ) and chocolate cut into small pieces .

2) Put everything in a small pan (for the pancake is very thick , about 1 cm) over high heat , then reduce to medium heat, and when the pancake took .

3) Cook without turning , and sprinkle with a little sugar a few minutes before it is cooked. Be careful not to over cook , so it does not dry out.

Serve warm for chocolate is still melting and insects still warm .

Axel Poullain, Alicia Libberecht, Alexandra Lefebvre, Céline Mayelle

Insects, food of future !

The permanent increase of the population will oblige us to eat insects in a few years. Indeed, cattle,pigs, sheeps and chicken farms require many space whereas the insects need less space.

                                                          small pea and these worms of flour

There is a restaurant in the Bretagne  the chief David Faure offers dishes with insects. In some countries the population already eat insects, for example in Mexico and in Colombia, the people eat the insects. An American expert has calculated that eight kilogram of crickets do 23479 calories either 43 hamburgers. While, we already eat about 500 grams of insects per year. May be that in 5 years the population will eat insects.

By Anthony, Maxence, Chloé, Manon, Audrey, Océane

Would you eat insects ?

Do you want a pizza with animal protéins which comes from Insects or towards flours. A restaurant in Guidel a city which is loacted in Bretagne in France serve this kind of food . Yes I know, it seems disgusted but the restaurant serve this kind of insects are hidden in the pizza.

In the future, because of the demographic increase, the traditional breeding could not give animals proteins enough.

But it is easy to breed insect, quickly, with not a lot of water, and surface ground. This breedings are environmental safely.

We already eat some insecst about 500 g when we are riding a bike or in the jam, the fruit juices, the bread…

Our ancètres from Lucy the australopithècus to Cro-Magnon were eating such a lot of insect that they wer be able to eat the all termite’s nest for breakfast.

 

 

About 1.2 millions of people already eat insects in Asia, Africa, South America. In Colombia, people eat ant like caviar.

The European community give 3 millions of euros to scientific research to consumption of insect.

So will you eat insects?

By Christophe Abraham