Leeches are amazingly tough little critters. They're pretty much nothing but elastic connective tissue with a gut tube running down the middle. Dissecting them is a real pain - it's like trying to cut through the rubber bands inside a golf ball. This is what allows them to stretch and distend so obscenely as they fill full of blood.
So cooking them would probably make this worse.
I would think that a marinade would be the best choice - cut them into small bite-size portions and bathe them overnight in some red wine, peppers and seasoning salt - maybe some jerk seasonings too. Bread them and sear them lightly, and serve them hot. They'll probably taste like pencil erasers, but have enough beer with them and they'll be fine.
or try this way >>>>>>
Ingredients
5-15 leeches (live ones)
Blood (From a human, preferably a live one)
Cooking
Boil in water. Use a gas stove from the most authentic results.
Portion Size
Leeches make a perfect hors d’oeuvre, a nice start to an evening of fine dining with any number of friends.
Preparation
1. Go to the Lake . Get your mitts on some leeches. Remember, it’s a wild animal, so hunting the beast is no task for inexperienced outdoorsman.
2. Get some blood. There are many ways to do this, but the best flavor comes from a fellow human being. But don’t settle for just anybody. A chain-smoking person one drunken step away from burnout, personal bankruptcy or any other of life’s little hardships usually owns a liver that gives the blood rushing through it a distinguished zest that won’t dissolve in the process of making the dish.
3. Let the leeches feast on the blood of the person of your choice, until the busy little hermaphrodites have eaten themselves into immobile obesity.
4. Boil the water, but keep an eye on the temperature. Remember, you are not meant to kill the natural aromas of the blood circulating inside the leech with the heat turned on too high.
5. When the liquid turns clear and the surface of the leech turns into scab-like shell, the dish is ready.
6. Serve without any side dishes. At the more fancier dinner parties, use lobster knife.
7. This dish of Leeches is perfect with a nice, healthy bottle of vodka.
And remember those lake-side walks ! Even though you and I might consider the leech just a cute little pet to feed, to play with and to love, you must remember, things are different under the waters-edge . So don’t bolt, animal lovers and other animists – when in the leech infested water !
Kick them munchies with luscious leeches!
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