Mercado de Tlacolula, Oaxaca
After being thoroughly cleaned and washed, they are toasted on a comal (broad flat cookware) with garlic, lime juice and salt containing extract of agave worms, lending a sour-spicy-salty taste to the finished product. Sometimes the grasshoppers are also toasted with chili, although it can be used to cover up for stale chapulines.
Chapulines are eaten in tacos, in moles, and sprinkled as a condiment on fried eggs.
