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Grilled lobster

Grilled lobster

And so my NYE dinner continued with another starter: grilled lobster – yummy 🙂

Lobster is one of those ingredients that only come to my table o really special occasions. So far only during New year’s Eve but I’m planning a lobster BBQ for my birthday, so stay tuned 🙂

Being a major fan of seafood, I really wish lobster was more affordable. But unfortunately it’s not so I can’t enjoy it as much as I would like to. A couple of years ago, I really went over board and bought 2 big live lobsters for New Year. Oh my God, it was an adventure! I had never cooked lobster and these ones were alive! I had to research a bit to find out what to do. Conclusion: you keep the lobsters in the fridge so they get sort of asleep. Then you get a large pot of boiling water and drop the live lobster in it. It sounds cruel, I know, but they were alive and we had to cook them somehow… After the initial shock, we started to get all excited about it. After the cooking process was over, I cut each lobster in half lengthways and cleaned the inside of the head (Brown bits). I then fried some garlic in butter, spread it over the inside the lobsters and sprinkled some parsley on top. And I finally took it to the grill for a few minutes. After all the work I can guarantee you it was delicious 🙂

This year, I wasn’t even planning to buy lobster. But on my trip to the fishmonger to buy prawns, I came across these “mini” frozen lobsters for €3.00 each. Why not? They kindly sliced them in half and off I went with my 2 little lobsters. At least I didn’t have to kill them this time! And as a little treat, it was really nice 🙂

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Grilled lobster

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Yield: 2 people

Ingredients

2 small frozen lobsters
2 tbsp butter
3 garlic cloves, minced
Salt & pepper, to taste
Chopped parsley, to taste

Instructions

Heat the electrical grill - 200C
Start by allowing the lobsters to defrost in the fridge.
When ready, clean the heads of any brown bits which will not taste good.
Season the lobster meat with salt and pepper.
In a small pan, heat the butter and lightly fry the garlic without letting it burn.
Remove from the heat.
Place the lobsters in the grill, shell face down. Drizzle the lobster meat with the garlic butter and close the grill.
If using the oven grill or an open grill, just start by cooking the lobsters meat face down for about 2 minutes. Then turn them around and drizzle with the garlic butter.
Let it cook for about 10 minutes or until the lobster have turned red.
Serve warm with toasted bread.

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