Lookin for a Lobster recipe

Big Easy Egg

Anyone have a good recipe for lobster and some direction on Eggin it.

Richard Fl

I like to take them and split the backs, grill high direct 350F with lemon butter s/p until they are white but not dry.

This recipe has been popular for many years:

Lobster, Dwell in the Shell, Houndog

"elegant, yet pleasingly casual"




Ingredients:
4 Huge Lobster Tails
1 bit Peanut Oil
1-2 each Limes
Garlic Powder
1 Touch Lawry's Seasoning Salt
(Optional) New Mexican Green Chili Powder
Butter
Minced Garlic




Preparation:
1 Picked up 4 huge lobster tails. Thought at first, 1 pound tails for each of us would be ok. Naaaaahhhh - if two tails would be good, 4 tails for the two of us would be better, right ?
2 Get your shears and cut the clear membrane off the belly of the tail, getting rid of the tiny feet, exposing the meat.
3 Rinse them good, dry them with paper towel and place them shell side up on a cutting board. Take a heavy knife or cleaver, place it lengthwise (parallel) in the center of the shell and tap the back of the blade into the shell, cracking it ever so slightly. This is so our tail will lay flat on the grill. Do not take meat out of the shell !
4 Now flip them over, belly side up. Take a bit of oil ( I used peanut )and pour a small amount on your fingers, and lightly rub the meat. Don't use much at all, barely a drizzle.
5 Grab a lime or two and squeeze juice and pulp all over the meat, liberally.
6 Then shake on garlic powder and a touch of Lawry's seasoning salt.
7 I then have to throw my favorite ingredient of all time, which goes on everything I cook, New Mexican green chili powder. Don't worry if you don't have this, it's hard to find, and your lobsters will still be far and above any lobster you ever had before.
8 Place covered tails in fridge for an hour or so to marinade while your gettin' your cooker ready.
9 Get a good hot bed of lump going and preheat your cooker to 400 - 450 degrees. As all of you know, when it comes to seafood and a good hot fire, you must move swiftly because every minute counts.
10 Place tails, meat side down on the grill and press them flat. This is why we weakened the shells earlier with the tapping cleaver.
11 Set your metal cup on the grill also with butter and minced garlic so it will melt and sauté' the garlic. Close the lid. If you don't have a metal cup to use on the grill while you're cookin', get one !
12 Open the cooker after 5 minutes and with a leather glove, carefully turn tails over onto their shells so meat is facing up towards the sky.
13 Take your cup (grab it with a leather glove please) with the butter and garlic, and spoon sautéed mixture onto the lobster tails. The tails will form a slight cupped shape which will hold most of the butter in place, but your fire will rage for a minute, and that is great.
14 Close the lid down and slowly begin to close top and bottom drafts so they can "Dwell in the Shell" for 5 more minutes. Remember - with a good hot fire, 5 minutes per side, that's it. With 50 dollars worth of lobster on the grill, you definitely want to pay attention. I don't recommend holding any conversations with your company while you're fixin' this supper. Tell your family and friends that you'll socialize again after this crucial 10 minutes is over. Once everyone tastes what you've agonized and sweated over for 10 minutes, no more explanations will be necessary. Simply, Heaven on Earth !
15 Serve with long grain and wild rice, corn on the cobs, asparagus, salad, just about anything. Even though we had melted butter to dip the lobster in, it wasn't really necessary. It was so good that we're doing it again for the family tomorrow night. They'll be surprised when they get beef tenderloin steaks and lobster tails out of their brisket and pulled pork ......Houndog.
16 I'm not that good a cook, but these tails are truly world class. Give 'em a try.


Servings: 2

Recipe Type
Main Dish, Seafood

Recipe Source
Author: Houndog

Source: BGE Forum, Houndog, 2000/01/04

Big Easy Egg

Thanks, I will post pics and response from guests.

Jimmy

stike

i think i'd steer you to the "dwell in the shell" recipe already posted. i wish i could tell you what temp to pull them off, but i dunno.

if you have whole lobsters (not just tails), you can split them right down the middle, and butter the insides of the tail. grill cut side down for a few minutes (til you get nice grill marks on the meat), then flip cavity up, drizzle in some butter, and let it go by pulling thme off to the side to roast. take them off just when the meat turns from translucent to white. when grilling, i find the tips of the claws can be done too soon while waiting on the tail, though.

you could also split them, but then cut off the claws and steam them while you grill/roast the tails.

frankly, being a set-in-my-ways yankee, we really just usually steam them. wife and i'll split a 3 pounder, usually.



a little trick. if you are cooking for someone, or want to take a picture, rub the shell with a cut lemon. it'll give it a nice wet look. plus, there's a bit of lemon on your fingers when you devour it.

and NO BIBS!!! no new englander i ever knew wore a frikkin bib. they offer those to tourists just to see if they'll actually wear them.

fishlessman

dont forget the fancy plastic lobstah picking plates, LOL. Big Easy Egg, stikes right about steaming them if they are maine lobsters, its one thing i dont like on the egg. grill up some steaks and asparagus, even throw the clams in there, but not the lobster. if its one of those southern bugs, hounddogs recipe is great, go for it.

Big Easy Egg

Well down is South Louisiana we would never think of bibs or other keep me clean devices. We eat crawfish by the sack and roast beef sandwiches with the gravy to the elbow.
Thanks for the info, I'm looking forward to trying the giant mudbugs.

stike

that was a wonderful dinner you cooked for me. i remember you even brought out the big three-wicked yankee candle (very VERY rare).

that was back when i liked ice i my wine, too. we were so young then....

sniff.

(ok. who was eating that dinner? looks like it's set up for a chick across from you, but there's a boatload of food. is your girlfriend 800 pounds?)

wallytwotoes

I have fond memories of side of the road 4 pound lobsters and a bushel of fries on newspaper in Cape Cod - no bibs, we all just got hosed down after 3 hours.