Chapurrines aka Grasshoppers
A friend of mine at work just recently from their vacation of Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico and was nice enough to bring me back a gift.
At first inspection I wasn’t quite sure what it was in the small plastic package but aftrer a second glance I quickly figured out what it was; Chapurrines or in english Grasshoppers.
In fact they are dehydrated, lemon salted grasshoppers. And they are really not all that bad. They remind me of dryed Soya beans. Decent amount of protein in them as well.
Small little bag of yummy treats
Oh look I see a thorax!
Now I tried to pass them around work but 98% of the people declined. I was able to get a few people to try them and they agreed that they weren’t gross and were yummy though a bit salty.
Anyway I like them and that is all that matter right? Though unless I am found on the floor drooling and twitching uncontrolably. Now do I add them into my spaghetti at work and freak out our in-house cook? I think so!
OK, that is just wrong. But I will try it.
They aren’t bad. Especially when you get a full grasshopper to munch on. Think the biggest one in the package was roughly 2 inches in length!
Hola!
I own a Restaurnt in Puerto Vallarta Mexico. We have been selling “Chapurrines” for over 2 years now. We have a lot of Cnadians and Americans that have tried them for the first time, and I am pleased to say more than 70 % of the people like them. “Chapurrines” is a trademark name for a very old product for the Southern region of Oaxaca. The actual name for crickets is chapulines. These guys came up with the idea to change the original deep fat fried version for a roasted one. This improves greatly the flavour and less fat content.
Here we prepare them in a taco , with freshly hand made soft corn tortillas, served with a green tomatillo and avocado salsa, also available by the jar to take seaed back to the US or CAN. When people comment how stange it is and makle a yuk! face I tell them it is just in their minds, and if they dont try it how would they know if they like it or not?
That’s Crazy! i was in Huatulco, Mexico just recently, and brought the exact same package back. I made some of my friends eat them, they said they were okay, but kinda tea tasting, then salty. Now i’m using them for a highschool project, and googled the “chapurrines” and found ur page, how ironic!
I liked them. Took me a while to eat them and can’t remember if I ever finished them but I would say most people here wouldn’t try them when they saw what they were. I thought they were good
I love Chapurrines! but I think that the Mayans Chocolate covered grasshoppers are even better. I am a Mixtec from Oaxaca, so take my word for it, if you love chapurrines come to yucatan to get chocolate ones