Awesome Edible Insect Recipes

Taste education helps shift eaters from seeing insects as a “pest” to “potential” in sustainable food and agricultural systems.

Choco Chirpies

Old-fashioned Oatmeal Cricket Cookies

Gluten-free Carrot Cricket Cupcake

Chocolate Cremeux, Toasted Crickets

Red Salsa de Gusano

Simple Salsa: Gusano Recipe

Mezcal de Gusano

Gusano Salt

Paleo-ish Raspberry Oatmeal Cricket Cookies

Gringo Chapulines Tacos

Mixed Berry Cricket Leather

Pizza Pissaladiére

Young Spinach Salad

Crazy Simple No Rise All Wheat Cricket Pizza

Wax Worm Wonton Chips

Chapulines Recipe: Spicy Chapulines Tostadas

Dogma Smashing Dolmas

Sheesh! Kabobs

Three Bee Salad

Waxworm Tacos

Bee-LT Sandwich

Cabbage, Peas ‘n’ Crickets

Perfect Cricket Pancakes

Good Ol’ Sweet Potato Cricket Bread

Paleo Sweet Potato Cricket Pecan Bread

Ricey Crispy Cricket Treats

Hopping Thai Salad

Paleo Cricket Snaps

Buglava

Simple Carrot Buffalo Worm Soup

Spicy Critter Fritters

Cooking with a new ingredient for the first time can be quite a challenge, let alone a whole new taxanomic branch of life.  Our collection of edible insect recipes come from the Bug Vivant kitchen, from forward-thinking chefs and curious foodies like yourself.  Check out our edible insect recipes; we only have a few right now, but thanks to generous donors, we’ll be adding many more soon!
Have a favorite edible insect recipe?  Use our simple recipe form to add it post it right away, but dont forget to also check out our archive of failed edible insect recipes.  Let others lean from your mistakes too!

Add YOUR Edible Insect Recipe

Did you like what you tried, please tell us why and don’t forget to rate your edible insect recipe.  Our edible insect recipe boxes have a lot of catching up do in the West.  Chefs from all culinary backgrounds are beginning to feature edible insect on menus across the globe.  We are always reaching out to these chefs to share their edible insect recipes and cooking tips.  Soon we will include a listing of edible insect friendly chefs, caterers, and restaurants in North America.   If you would like to join this listing, please let us know.

To jump start your edible insect culinary journey, check out the Eat a Bug Cookbook by David George Gordon or the Insect Cook Book by Arnold van Hui,s Henk van Gurp, and Marcel Dicke.  These recently published books boast some beautiful food photography a variety of elegant edible insect recipes.  
The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Revised: 40 Ways to Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin

The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

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