Does anyone have a good recipe for frying crickets

I use the same batter recipe to dip them in as for everything else that gets tossed into the deep fryer.

1/2 cup white cornmeal
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sweetener
2 eggs
2 cups non fat milk

beat the milk & eggs together, then stir in dry ingredients.

dip whatever u r frying into this batter then toss them into the deep fryer with oil heated to 350 F. Cook for just a couple of minutes or until the batter is a nice crispy tan color. Drain & drench in ketchup to eat.

Season them first with some white vinegar, salt, garlic powder and black pepper. Shake in a bag of flour to coat. Fry in oil until brown and crispy.

Dry Roasted Crickets

If u r the adventurous sort, u can try our recipe for dry roasted crickets & enjoy an interesting source of protein. Dry roasted crickets would also make great snacks for a Fear Factor type party or event!

Dry roasted crickets can be used as a convenient food for certain types of insect eating lizards that accept non moving prey.

Dry Roasted crickets would also work quite well as an alternative for those feeding bugs to wild birds such as Bluebirds. If u r feeding live mealworms to ur Bluebirds or feeding either Mealie Snax Dry Roasted Mealworms or Wax Snax Dry Roasted Wax Worms try them on some Dry Roasted Crickets.
Recipe for Dry Roasted Crickets

It is important to know that once insects die, postmortem changes happen rapidly making them unpalatable very quickly. You have to cook them alive like u do a lobster.

Just before cooking, put ur crickets in the refrigerator until u r ready to roast them. You don’t want to kill them, only slow their metabolism down so that they stop moving. This allows for arranging them on the cookie sheet with out them trying to get away.

Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Spread a bunch of pre cooled live crickets out on a cookie sheet. Bake at low temperature for an hour or more until completely dry. Test by crushing a dried cricket with ur fingers. If they do not seem completely dried out, roast them some more. However, be careful not to burn them as they taste terrible scorched! Let cool.

Dry Roasted Crickets have a nutty flavor & r very good eaten plain with a sprinkle of salt. They r also very tasty as a substitute for nuts in dessert & cookie recipes. Dry Roasted Crickets can also be blended into flour to be added to bread flours to make lots of different recipes.


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Heat some oil and just pour the crickets in the hot oil and fry them!

I would think a lot of butter, salt and pepper would probably be fine. Maybe add some chili flakes, too.