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Lobster with Garlic Butter

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Lobster with Garlic Butter

Lobster with Garlic Butter

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Equipment

  • Kitchen Knife - Essential for safely handling and cutting lobster meat as well as preparing other ingredients.

  • Chef's Gloves - To ensure hygiene when working with raw seafood, which can carry bacteria.

  • Crab/Lobster Cracker or Lobster Cracker - Needed to break open the shell of a lobster for cooking.

  • Grill or Grill Pan - For grilling lobsters directly on the grates or using a pan with high-heat oil if not available outdoors.

  • Bread Crumbs - Used in some recipes to coat and add texture before grilling.

  • Lobster Puller Tool - A specialized utensil designed for efficiently extracting meat from lobster shells without breaking the claws excessively.

  • Garlic Press or Garlic Cloves - To mince garlic, an essential ingredient in butter used to cook the lobster.

  • Stainless Steel Cooking Pot with Lid - For boiling lobsters before grilling them for optimal tenderness and flavor.

  • Wooden Grilling Skewers - Although not always required, these can be useful if preparing a kabob-style dish or serving individual pieces of cooked meat on skewers.

  • Dutch Oven with Lid (optional) - For steaming lobsters, offering an alternative method to grilling.

  • Measuring Cups and Spoons - Essential for accurately measuring ingredients in the recipe.

Ingredients

  • 2 small garlic cloves

  • 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened

  • 1 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley

  • 2 (1 1/4-pound) live lobsters

  • Garnish: lemon wedges; sea salt

  • N/A sea salt

Instructions

1

Instruction 1

Preheat oven to 450°F with a large shallow baking pan in upper third.
2

Instruction 2

Mince and mash garlic to a paste with 1/2 teaspoon salt, then stir together with butter and parsley.
3

Instruction 3

Plunge lobsters headfirst into a large pot of boiling salted water (3 tablespoons salt for 6 quarts water) and cook, covered, 3 minutes from time they enter water. Transfer with tongs to a plate and let stand 5 minutes. (Lobsters will not be fully cooked.)
4

Instruction 4

Lightly crack claws, then split lobsters lengthwise and discard innards from body cavity.
5

Instruction 5

Remove tail meat from 1 lobster and cut crosswise into 8 pieces. Spread about 2 tablespoons garlic butter in one empty half shell, then fill that shell with all of sliced lobster and dot with 1 tablespoon garlic butter. Spoon about 5 tablespoons garlic butter into other empty half shell (for dipping). Repeat with remaining lobster.
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