Snails with Chilled Garlic Mousse

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    , as a starter
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

  • About

I devised this recipe as part of an elegant summer garden meal.

Ingredients

  • 48 cherry tomatoes or 24 larger ones
  • 48 small or medium shelled snails
  • 6 garlic cl

Method

If you can bear to skin the larger tomatoes, do so. Cut them in half and scoop out the seeds. Cherry tomatoes just need a cap cut off and the seeds scooped out. (Do not waste the seeds and pulp. Rub it through a sieve, and use the liquid as a base for a marvellous vinaigrette to mix with a nut oil or extra virgin olive oil.) Rinse and drain the snails, and put one into each tomato cup. Mix the