
Lobster Garlic Butter by Gizzi Erskine
09 Dec 2020 by Wright Brothers Team
- Time 55minutes
- Serves 2
- Difficulty Easy
Ingredients
- 2 cooked whole lobsters
- 1 bulb of wet garlic
- 1 regular garlic clover, peeled, finely grated
- 200g unsalted butter, at room temperature
- Large bunch of flat leaf parsley
- Good squeeze of lemon juice
- Sea salt flakes
- Freshly ground black pepper
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Instructions
Lobsters are best treated with a light touch. Enjoy their tender, juicy meat by enhancing their flavours with this lovely garlic butter recipe by Gizzi Erskine. This recipe works brilliantly on lots of other shellfish too!
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Split the wet garlic bulb in half, drizzle with olive oil. Roast in the oven for 35-40 minutes, until the cloves are soft.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
- In a large pan of boiling water, blanche the parsley for 30 seconds. Transfer to a bowl of iced water to halt cooking. Remove from the water. Squeeze tightly to remove any liquid. Roughly chop.
- Add the roasted garlic, regular garlic, butter, squeeze of lemon juice, parsley, plenty of salt and pepper. Blitz until smooth.
- Take a cooked lobster. Lay flat on a board. Insert a sharp knife into the lobsters back at the front of the head. Cut through the tail.
- Spin the lobster round and cut through the head, to make two even halves.
- Place the lobster halves on a baking tray. Evenly spread the butter across each.
- Place under a hot preheated grill. Grill until the butter is melted and gratinated.
- Serve and enjoy!
Recipe and food styling by Gizzi Erskine
Photography by Lateef Okunnu