Name: Lobster Roasted in the Oven (Homard rôti au four)
Yield: For two people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 15 cl (¼ pint) sauce Américaine; 1 teaspoon lemon juice; 5 tablespoons dry white wine; 60 g (2 oz) chopped shallot; 1 live lobster of 700 g (1½ lb); 1½ litres (2½ pints) nage or court-bouillon; 2 teaspoons chopped tarragon; 1 egg yolk; salt, pepper; half the lobster’s coral; 160 g (5¾ oz) fromage blanc; 1 teaspoon crème fraîche; 2 teaspoons chopped chervil; 1 tablespoon fromage blanc

Preparation info

For
two
people

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cuisine Minceur

By Michel Guérard

Published 1986

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Ingredients

Main ingredients

1 live lobster of 700 g (1½ lb)
1½ litres</

Method

Cook the lobster for four minutes in the boiling nage. Remove it from the heat and let it cool in the liquid for five minutes.
Reduce the sauce Américaine to half its volume in a heavy saucepan. In a separate saucepan boil the white wine, shallots, lemon juice, tarragon, chervil, salt and pepper, until it is reduced to a moist purée (there should be about two t