{"id":3092,"slug":"snails-with-garlic-butter-escargots-a-la-bourguignonne","title":"Snails with Garlic Butter (Escargots à la Bourguignonne)","description":"Escargots à la bourguignonne is a French dish of snails with garlic butter.","ingredients_raw":["24 canned snails","½ lb butter, softened","1 tbsp minced shallots","1 tsp grated or minced garlic","1½ tbsp fresh chopped parsley","Salt to taste","Pepper, to taste","24 snail shells, with snail serving dishes, and snail tongs OR 4 glazed indented earthenware snail serving dishes OR 24 small mushroom caps, trimmed and de-gilled"],"ingredients_norm":["canned snail","butter","shallot","garlic","fresh chopped parsley","salt","pepper","snail shell"],"steps":["Preheat oven to 400°F.","Drain and rinse the snails.","Combine the butter with the shallots, garlic, parsley, salt, and pepper, and blend well.","Sauté the mushroom caps, if using, in a small amount of garlic butter until cooked but still firm. Remove from the heat.","If using snail shells, place a snail in each shell and fill the rest of the space with garlic butter. If using a snail dish without the shells, place a snail in each indentation and fill the rest of the space with garlic butter. If using mushroom caps, place 2–3 snails in each cap and top with a generous amount of garlic butter.","Heat the snails in the oven for 5–7 minutes, and serve with copious quantities of French bread for soaking up the garlic butter."],"categories":["French recipes","Recipes using garlic","Recipes using mushroom","Appetizer recipes","Baked recipes","Recipes using snail","Recipes using butter"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":45,"servings":"4","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Snails_with_Garlic_Butter_(Escargots_à_la_Bourguignonne)","source_ref":"4502308","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Snails_with_Garlic_Butter_(Escargots_à_la_Bourguignonne)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"aa9413f511159b6b4318e3c0cdee3c754f6f89a79ccfcb6a70c918896a7ad901","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:22Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:22Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/snails-with-garlic-butter-escargots-a-la-bourguignonne"}