Antonio Carluccio

Linguine con Aragosta

Linguine with Lobster

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Antonio Carluccio – The Collection
Antonio Carluccio – The Collection

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2012

  • About

“You will find this ‘posh’ pasta dish in most of the coastal regions, cooked in many different ways. This is the simplest.”

Ingredients

  • salt and pepper
  • 1 live lobster, about 1.25kg, or 2 live lobsters, about 600g each
  • 90

Method

Bring a large pan of lightly salted water to the boil. Put the lobster in, cover and simmer for 15-25 minutes, depending on size. Remove the lobster and leave to cool, then cut it in half lengthways and remove the

2 gills (near the head), the dark vein running down the tail and the small stomach sac in the head. Do not discard the green, creamy liver in the head. Take out the tail meat,