Gardener's Revenge Recipe | Food

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Date Published:: 28/05/2008

Hardly garden variety… try this gardener’s revenge recipe from River Cottage Spring

Serves 4

Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil
4 little gem lettuces, halved
5-6 radishes, halved
3 spring onions, sliced
30g unsalted butter
2 cloves of garlic, sliced
8-12 snails, removed from their shells
100g cooked tender pig’s cheek, shredded (optional)
Juice of half a lemon

Method: How to make gardener's revenge

1. Warm the oil over a medium-high heat in a large frying pan. Add the lettuce, cut side down, along with the radishes and spring onions, and sauté until everything is just softened, about 3 minutes. Remove from the pan onto a warm plate and set aside.

2. Melt the butter in a frying pan over a medium-high heat. Throw in the garlic and cook for a minute before adding the snails and the pig’s head and cook until warmed through, about 2 minutes.

3. Arrange the lettuce mixture on four warmed plates and top with the snails, pig’s head (if using), pour over the buttery, garlicky juices and squeeze on a little lemon and serve immediately.

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Enjoyed the Christmas "River Cottage" but cannot find the recipe for the demonstrated "Potato and onion bake" served with the spit roast chicken. Where can I find this potato recipe ??

Posted by Tony Harris on 30/12/2009 13:27:58

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i did this with snails from the field behind my apartment in san diego with my daughter and we both loved it and she had fun feeding them

Posted by hawaiiguysurfer on 22/10/2009 22:55:27

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Yes, Doctor, you do just go out into the garden and pick them off the floor! But you also need to purge them by feeding them clean veg, like carrots, until their poo turns orange. What are they teaching doctors these days?!?!

Posted by monkeeboy on 14/06/2009 16:10:02

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How can anyone eat this disgusting meal and where the hell do you find snails!! Do you just go out into the garden and pick them up off of the floor!

Posted by Dr. Steven Howard on 20/03/2009 10:11:35

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