Sauteed Lobster
- 1 lobster/person
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 small orange
- 1 1/2 tsp garlic salt - divided
- 1 tsp dill weed
- This recipe assumes you have intact, cooked, frozen lobsters.
- Allow the lobsters to thaw in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
- Remove the pincers where they attach to the body.
- Use a nut cracker to break the shell around the joints and claw.
- Use the tip of a small claw to dig the meat out of the pincer leg.
- The claw meat often comes out intact.
- Grasp the lobster tail with one hand and its body with the other.
- Press the tail into the body and twist to separate the tail from the body.
- Remove and discard the green gland, stomach and any veins or eggs.
- Rinse with cold water if needed.
- Reserve the shells and left over body parts for lobster stock.
- Place the point of a stout knife in the base of the tail.
- Rock the blade down the length of the tail to split it in half.
- Peel the shell away from the lobster tail meat.
- Each half should come out intact.
- Rinse under cold water to clean if necessary.
- Chop the meat into bite size portions and add the claw meat.
- In a wok or frying pan, add the butter, lemon juice, dill, garlic salt and a cut up orange.
- Heat to sizzling hot.
- Add the lobster meat and stir for 1 minute.
- Do not cook longer than 90 seconds if you have a pre-cooked lobster.
- Serve immediately with melted citrus butter from pan.
person, butter, lemon juice, orange, garlic, dill
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/362510-sauteed-lobster (may not work)