Lobster with lemon & herb butter sauce recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 cooked lobster (see tip below for video guide on how to prepare lobster), claws and tail meat kept separate from the smaller bits of meat
  • crusty bread, to serve

For the sauce

  • juice ½ lemon
  • 100g cold butter, cut into cubes
  • small bunch chives, finely snipped
  • small handful basil leaves, chopped

For the salad

  • 110g bag of rocket
  • ½ an avocado, stoned, peeled and sliced
  • leftover bits of lobster meat
  • juice ½ lemon
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Method

  • To make the sauce, warm the lemon juice in a small saucepan. Add the butter, a few cubes at a time, swirling them into the lemon juice over a very low heat to melt them, adding a few more pieces until all the butter is used. Take the sauce off the heat, season to taste and keep warm.

  • To make the salad, gently toss the rocket, avocado and lobster meat together. Dress with the lemon juice and olive oil, and toss again until everything is mixed and coated.

  • To serve, stir the herbs through the sauce and pour into a ramekin or small bowl. Put the sauce on a plate and pile the large chunks of lobster meat on one side and the salad on the other. Bring the plate to the table to share – dip the tail meat, claws and crusty bread into the sauce.

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