Anyone here ever ate frog legs?

Question

and how did you like them?

Answer 1

yes, I ate them when I was a child, my mom cooked them like chicken and they tasted like chicken too.

Answer 2

There is a bull frog in a pond that I can hear at night. Makes me remember back 40-50 years ago. There were 4 of us critters (old teenagers) in the community. And on a warm moonless night we would get together and go gigging. We wouldn't stop till we got a tow sack (burlap feed bag) as full as we could get it and still carry it. Get home around midnight. Stay up till we got all of them skinned, and in the freezer. One year I remember well. We had 4 bushels of frog legs frozen. Our mothers, and girlfriends got together, and we fed everyone in the community that showed up, all the frog legs they could eat, with fries and Cole slaw.

We started gigging when we were in grammar school, and didn't quit till Vietnam.

How did we like them? Well, they were right up there with baked coon with sweet taters, fish fry's, squirrel stew in a 35 gallon pot, watermelon pig outs, pit barbecue, and the list goes on. They were all concentrated around our neighborhood. They tasted like frog legs to us! Not chicken! I mean, what does salt taste like? Answer me that, and I'll give in to the statement that frog legs taste like chicken! lol

Answer 3

try it like this yummy.

Ingredients:

4 Pairs of jumbo frog's legs -(about 1 pound), trimmed
1 Stalk fresh lemon grass - or 1 tablespoon dried lemon grass
2 Fresh red chile peppers - seeded and sliced
2 Shallots - sliced
2 Garlic cloves - crushed
1 1/2 ts Sugar
1 ts Curry paste
2 ts Curry powder
1/4 ts Salt
2 tb Nuoc mam - (Vietnamese fish sauce)
2 oz Cellophane (bean thread) - noodles
2 tb Vegetable oil
1 Small onion - chopped
1 c Chicken broth or water
1/2 c Coconut milk or heavy cream
1 ts Cornstarch
Freshly ground black pepper
Coriander sprigs - for garnish

Instructions:

This delicious lemon grass and coconut-laced curry comes from southern Vietnam. If you prefer a very hot curry, simply use more chile peppers.

Cut the frogs' legs into bite-size pieces. Rinse with cold water to remove any chipped bones. Pat dry and refrigerate.

If you are using fresh lemon grass, discard the outer leaves and upper half of the stalk. Cut into thin slices and finely chop. If you are using dried lemon grass, soak it in warm water for 1 hour. Drain and finely chop.

In a blender, combine the lemon grass with the chiles, shallots, garlic, sugar, curry paste, curry powder, salt and 1 tablespoon of the fish sauce. Process to a very fine paste. Rub the paste over the frogs' legs. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, soak the cellophane noodles in warm water for 30 minutes. Drain. Cut into 2-inch sections.

Heat the oil in a saucepan over moderate heat. Add the onion and saute until translucent. Add the frogs' legs and brown well on all sides, about 3 minutes. Add the chicken broth and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 15 minutes.

Uncover the pan and add the coconut milk, the cornstarch diluted in 1 tablespoon of cold water and the remaining 1 table- spoon fish sauce. Cook, stirring, until the sauce thickens, about 15 minutes.

Add the cellophane noodles and bring the mixture to a boil.

Remove from the heat.

Sprinkle with black pepper and garnish with coriander sprigs.

Serve immediately with rice, French bread or over rice noodles.

Note: Instead of discarding the upper half of the lemon grass, crush it and cook it with the frogs' legs for extra flavor. Remove the stalk before serving.

Answer 4

I've tried that before....I've also tried fried grasshoppers, crickets and ants. Insects have a weird 'lemon grass' taste, that's why salt and pepper are always added to remove the weird taste.

Anyway, frog legs are good! They taste like a more tender version of chicken...if they aren't overcooked. I heard frog legs help to improve women's complexion.

Answer 5

Yes, they are very good. My favorite way to have them is dipped in buttermilk and Zatarains and deep fried with a nice aioli. They don't taste like chicken, they taste like frogs legs, anyone who says different either has never had them or has a very unrefined palate.

Answer 6

They have them at local "fish fries", but I never could eat them.
I once saw a National Lampoon cartoon with a frog in a little cart, with no legs, begging for money ---and I can never get that pic out of my head!!!

Answer 7

I ate them on a cruise once. They really DID taste like chicken! Like at KFC.

They looked sad when they came on the plate, though.

I eat kosher now. No more froggies.

Answer 8

Yes and love them...lets see, they taste like lean pork, marinated in yogurt or buttermilk, but with a delicate bite, and this is out there because they live around fresh water, but there is just a hint of diluted brine like you would find in a steamer clam. I have had them fried, sauteed in white wine, red cooked, in gumbo, and and and. Hope I could help out.

Answer 9

Yes
Spenglers in the bay area California.
A sweet meat.
More robust than chicken but very mild.
sweet and tender.

Answer 10

I had it in the South. Once.

It tasted SO MUCH like chicken. It was ok (I had it BBQ style).

However, I never ate it again, as I live in the Midwest.

Answer 11

I used to order them at a Chinese restaurant when I was a kid. They came fried and tasted exactly like chicken.