How to cook the Lidl frozen snails in shells with garlic butter in the Air fryer and times for cooking in a conventional oven.
Lidl
The Lidl supermarket has grown in popularity in the UK, and it isn’t just for the middle aslies. The food range has increased to cater more for British tastes, but you can still find some hidden gems.
Snails
Traditionally a French delicacy, you can find the pre-cooked and frozen snails in Lidl if you are lucky. The snails are pre-cooked and garnished with a good helping of butter, garlic and parsley filling. The snails are packed into a tin foil tray that is ideal for cooking the snails straight from the freezer.
Pre-Cooking
The Lidl snails are pre-cooked, and the air-fryer will defrost them and cook the garlic butter in the cooking time to give you perfectly cooked snails. This takes all the guesswork out of cooking the snails at home, and as long as the butter is cooked and the snails fully brought to temperature, they are ready to serve. The tin foil tray that the snails are supplied in is not only good for cooking the snails; it makes a decent serving platter.
Airfryer Cooking Time
The cooking time for air fryer Lidl snails is less than the time on the label because the printed timings are for a conventional oven. To adjust the times for an air fryer, we made several runs to check the times were perfect.
- Do not defrost the snails.
- Remove the outer plastic wrap.
- Keep the snails in the aluminium tray.
- Pre-heat the air fryer to 140°C.
12 Snails will take 7 minutes to cook in a pre-heated air fryer at 140°C
This will produce the 12 perfectly cooked snails with garlic butter and parsley in the supplied serving tin.
Eating the snails
Serve the snails hot, straight from the air fryer, in the tin tray onto a plate. Serve with crusty bread, like a baton or baguette section, to soak up the garlic and parsley butter.
If you don’t have the correct tool to extract the snail from the shell, it is perfectly acceptable to use a cocktail stick or two to hook them out.
Conventional Oven Cooking Times
If you are looking for the conventional and fan oven cooking times for the lidl 12 cooked and frozen snails as printed on the label, we have the contents listed below.
To oven heat: Preheat oven to 150°C/Gas Mark 4. Place the snails with the opening facing upwards on a tray in the centre of the oven for 10 to 15minutes, when the butter starts to boil, the snails are ready. Ensure food is piping hot throughout before serving. Do not reheat.
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Storage Instructions
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- Keep frozen.
- For your individual freezer, follow the star marked instructions below.
- ****Food compartment or freezer (-18°C) best before: see below of pack;
- ***Food compartment or freezer (-18°C) best before: see below of pack;
- **Food compartment (-12°C): 1 month;
- *Food compartment (-6°C): 1 week.
- Once defrosted, use within 24 hours and do not refreeze.
Ingredients
12 Cooked snails in shells, with parsley and garlic filling. Ingredients: 45% Cooked Snail Meat (Helix pomotio, Helix lucorum, Helix aspersa), (Mollusc), Butter (Milk), 15% Dried Garlic, Margarine (Palm Fat, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Emulsifier: Mono- And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids; Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid), 3,1% Parsley, Shallots, Dried Parsley, Spices, Herbs (contain Celery).
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Allergy Advice
Allergy Advice: For allergens, see ingredients in bold. May also contain Crustaceans, Egg, Fish, Soya and Cereals containing Gluten.
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Due De Coeur
12 Cooked Snails
in shells, with parsley and garlic filling
