82 Lobster with Watercress

Main ingredients

• 2 live lobsters of 350 g (¾ lb) (or 1 of 800 g

1. Make the court-bouillon by boiling the water, wine, salt, carrot, onion and bouquet garni together for twenty minutes, adding the peppercorns five minutes before the end.
2. Remove the claws of the lobsters, and cook them in the court-bouillon (see Roast Lobster), together with the eggs taken from underneath the bodie