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Some species of goose barnacles such as Lepas anatifera are pelagic and are most frequently found on tidewrack on oceanic coasts. Unlike most other types of barnacles, intertidal goose barnacles (e.g. Pollicipes pollicipes and Pollicipes polymerus) depend on water motion rather than the movement of their cirri for feeding, and are therefore found only on exposed or moderately exposed coasts.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook percebes (goose neck barnacles) using 2 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Percebes (Goose Neck Barnacles):
- Prepare 2 lb goose neck barnacles
- Make ready 1 lot of salt
Tube shaped, as thick as an index finger, and about three inches long, percebes (gooseneck barnacles) grow in clusters on rocks along the coasts of northern Spain and Portugal. They are expensive because of their scarcity and the difficulty and danger involved in gathering them. Percebes, which are known as goose barnacles in English, are unusual looking crustaceans that are usually attached to the surface of the rocks or floating items in the sea. They have a long rubbery stem (neck), which they use to attach to objects, and a white, triangular head.
Steps to make Percebes (Goose Neck Barnacles):
- You can spot goose neck barnacles growing in clumps of mussels. See the little dinosaur-like heads popping out?
- When you clear away the mussels, you see that these creatures grow in these tentacle-like clumps.
- To prepare them, put a large pot of heavily salted water to boil. As your water comes to a boil, prepare a large ice bath and place it near your boiling area.
- Toss your catch into the boiling water and blanch for about 3 minutes.
- When the 3 minutes are up, remove the percebes from the pot and transfer them to the ice bath.
- Once chilled, you will need to peel them. Careful, they tend to squirt water as they are peeled. Pinch each tube, up close to the ugly head part, and tear. The sheath should split relatively easily.
- Now, pull off the head. If you're careful, you may be able to pull out the fan without separating it from the tube. The fan is the creature's food collector. It's edible, and looks pretty crazy.
- Remove the meat from the tube, and set it aside. Here's what the final product looks like. 10 oz. yield!
- These are wonderful alone, similar to calamari maybe, but the meat really reminds me of abalone. Chop them up and add them to a pasta if you like. Next time, I wanna try to deep fry some.
The meat, which is often described as briny and sweet, is placed inside the neck. A percebes/goose barnacle from A Coruña's fish market. There are basically two parts to a goose barnacle or percebes (which seems to be used for the singular and plural). The top of it is basically the shell and looks a bit like a claw. Below this is the main part, which looks a bit like a tube covered with a dark, rubbery-looking skin.
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