You haven't lived until you have tried lobster at least once. The most humane way to dispatch the beast is plunge it into boiling water.
Ingredients
- 900 g live lobster
- sea salt
- 4 tblsp irish whiskey, green spot whiskey
- 200 ml single cream
Method
You haven't lived until you have tried lobster at least once. The most humane way to dispatch the beast is plunge it into boiling water.
- Plunge the lobster into heavily salted boiling water and cook for eight minutes (some say the water should be as salty as the sea). Take out and cool.
- Cut in half with a heavy knife, remove the meat from the shell, discarding any black intestinal thread you find and the bony sac inside the head, and chop the meat.
- Crack the claws with the back of the knife and remove this meat as well. Keep the main shell to present the lobster.
- For the sauce, pour the whiskey into a hot pan and quickly set alight. When the flames die down, add the cream. Bring to the boil and simmer for two minutes.
- Fold in the lobster meat and simmer for two minutes more, then return it to the shell. Enjoy.
