Name: Lagosta Suada de Peniche (‘Sweated’ lobster from Peniche)
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: Portugal
Ingredients: medium onions, 4, finely chopped; piripiri, * 1 tsp; a live spiny lobster of 1½–2 kg (3 to 4 lb); slices of fried bread; garlic, 2 cloves, chopped; pepper, ½ tsp; olive oil, 2–3 tbs; margarine, 50 g (2 oz); bay leaves, 2; thick tomato sauce, 200 ml (⅓ pint); a sprig of parsley, crushed; white wine, 100 ml (7 tbs)

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

North Atlantic Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

About

Ingredients

a live spiny lobster of 1½–2 kg (3 to 4 lb)
olive oil, 2–3 tbs</

Method

Split the body of the lobster into two, lengthways. Remove the claws entire. Take off the tail and cut it crossways into its segments. Keep all the liquid which emerges from these operations. Discard only the stomach bag from the body.

Heat the olive oil with the margarine in a casserole. Add the onions, garlic and parsley and cook for 5 minutes. Now put in all the pieces of lobster, wi