Lobster With Baby Vegetables Recipes

LOBSTER WITH MIXED VEGETABLES, HONEY CORIANDER SAUCE, AND BASIL OLIVE OIL SAUCE

Steps:

• To make the lobster: In a large stockpot, combine the stock, carrots, onions, and celery. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil. Add the lobsters and cook until bright orange or red, about 7 to 10 minutes. Remove the lobsters from the pot and set aside. Discard the stock liquid.
• To make the vegetable mixture: In a large skillet, combine the water and the vegetables that take the longest to cook, the carrots, fennel, radish, onions. Cook for 3 minutes. Add the remaining vegetables and cook the mixture until all of the vegetables are still bright in color, but are fork tender. Drain the liquid and set the vegetables aside.
• To make the basil sauce, simply combine the olive oil, basil, and pignoli nuts into a blender. Once the mixture is well combined, season with salt and pepper. Place the sauce in a squirt bottle and set aside.
• To prepare the coriander sauce, combine the olive oil and the coriander seeds in a small pot. Over medium heat, bring the oil to 150 degrees F. Remove the mixture from the heat, and set aside so the coriander seeds can infuse into the oil. Once the oil is cooled, use a strainer and remove the seeds from the oil.
• In a separate bowl, combine the vinegar, salt, and pepper, and mix until salt is dissolved. Add the tomato paste and stir until combined. Once the tomato paste is combined, add the ketchup, honey, orange juice, lemon juice, and mix well until all ingredients are incorporated. Using a hand-held blender, slowly add the infused oil to the mixture. The mixture should start to emulsify and become thick. Once all of the oil has been added, continue to blend until well combined. Place sauce in a squeeze bottle and set aside.
• To plate the lobsters, crack the lobster shells and remove the meat from the tails and claws. In a separate skillet, heat the vegetables slightly and place in the center of the plate. Add the lobster tail and claws on top of the vegetables and drizzle some of the basil and coriander sauce around the plate. Serve immediately.

LOBSTER AND CONFETTI VEGETABLE SALAD

Steps:

• Place mustard in small bowl. Whisk in 2 tablespoons vinegar and orange juice. Gradually whisk in oil. Mix in tarragon, shallot and orange peel. Season dressing to taste with salt and pepper.
• Char bell peppers over gas flamer or in broiler until blackened on all sides. Enclose in paper bag and let stand 10 minutes. Peel and seed peppers; cut into 1/2-inch pieces. Place in large bowl.
• Bring large pot of salted water to boil. Add lobster tails and cook 10 minutes. Transfer to bowl of ice water and cool. Add green beans to same pot of boiling water and cook until crisp-tender, about 5 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer beans to another bowl of ice water and cool. Add potato to same pot of boiling water and cook 2 minutes. Add corn kernels; cook until potato and corn are just tender, about 2 minutes longer. Drain well; add to bowl with peppers. Drain green beans; pat dry with paper towels. Add beans to potato mixture.
• Drain lobster; remove meat from shells. Cut meat crosswise into rounds. (Dressing, lobster and salad can be prepared 4 hours ahead. Cover separately and refrigerate.) Mix lobster with 1 1/2 tablespoons dressing. Mix remaining dressing into salad. Season with salt and pepper.
• Toss greens with remaining 1 tablespoon vinegar. Place on large platter. Mound salad on greens. Arrange lobster over greens and serve.

STIR-FRIED LOBSTER WITH GINGER AND SPRING ONIONS

Steps:

• Mix the marinade ingreditents together.
• Remove the meat from the tail and cut into bite size pieces and mix with the marinade for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Heat the peanut oil in a hot wok until the oil is smoking and then reduce to a medium heat.
• Add the lobster pieces to the oil and cook for 1 minute and then remove with a slotted spoon, drain and put to one side.
• Drain and reserve the oil from the wok, and wipe the wok clean.
• Put 2 tablespoons of the oil back in the wok and heat and then fry the ginger and spring onions for 30 seconds.
• Return the lobster to the wok and stir fry over a high heat for a few seconds and then add the salt, pepper, sugar, soy and wine and continue to stir fry quickly.
• Add the chicken stock, cover the wok with a lid and simmer for 1 minute.
• Stir in the cornflour slurry a little at a time until and thicken and the lobster is glazed to you liking.
• Serve immediately (would suggest over rice).

LOBSTER AND VEGETABLE PIE

Steps:

• Boil lobsters 2 minutes in large quantity of water, stirring. Remove to an ice water bath to stop cooking. Cool, drain and remove all meat from claws, tails and knuckles. Reserve tomalley and roe, if present. Cut meat into bite-size pieces.
• Cover lobster shells with water and bring to boil. Simmer 20 minutes. Strain and reserve the stock in a saucepan, setting aside 1/2 cup. Discard shells.
• Force tomalley through a strainer and chill. Poach roe in reserved stock until bright red. Dry on paper towels and force through a strainer.
• Prepare vegetables, parboiling the root vegetables 7 minutes, and set aside.
• Divide butter between two large saucepans and melt over low heat. Raise heat to medium and add half the vegetables to each pot with lemon juice; toss lightly.
• Raise heat again and add lobster meat, salt and pepper. Saute 1 minute; add reserved 1/2 cup stock and the cream. Bring to slow boil and stir ingredients until liquid is reduced to consistency of heavy cream.
• Reheat pastry rounds at 350 degrees 5 minutes.
• Spoon lobster mixture onto plates. Dribble pureed tomalley over lobster mixture and sprinkle with sieved roe. Place warm pastry rounds on top and serve.