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Gourmet Recipe

Lobster salad

Rating
Type of dish : Starter
To serve : 6
Preparation : 30 min
Cooking : 10 min
Budget : Expensive
From : Exotic
Difficulty : Medium
 
Ingredients :
3 lobsters of about 600g, live if possible
1 Webb lettuce, or Iceberg if unavailable
1 small cucumber
2 lemons
1 small melon
1 punnet cherry tomatoes
4l stock

To make sauce :
125ml creme fraiche
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 tablspoon snipped chives
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon mustard
2 pinches cayenne pepper
Salt
 
Recipe :
Bring stock to boil.
Add lobsters, poach for 10 to 12 minutes, then remove from stock.
Pierce lobster shells with point of a knife where the tail meets the body, then leave to strain, heads down.
Wash lettuce.
Cut melon in half, remove seeds and then flesh, with a teaspoon.
Wash cucumber and lemons, cut into thin slices.
Cut cherry tomatoes in half.

To make sauce:
Mix honey together with lemon juice and vinegar, then add mustard, creme fraiche, chives, cayene pepper and salt.

Remove shells from lobsters, prepare flesh and cut tail meat into small chunks.
Arrange leaves on 6 plates, then add tomatoes, cucumnber, melon and lemon. Arrange lobster in the middle and drizzle with dressing.



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Je vous conseille de boire un Blanc :" Domaine Claude Laffond " Clos des Messieurs", 1998. "

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