Ballymaloe Hot Buttered Lobster

Preparation info
  • serves

    4

    as a main course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Darina Allen's Simply Delicious Suppers

By Darina Allen

Published 2001

  • About

One of the most exquisite ways to eat fresh lobster, but for perfection the lobster must come straight from the sea.

Ingredients

  • 1.8 kg live lobster
  • 110 g butter
  • squeeze of le

Method

Cook the lobsters following the method, steaming them until they are just beginning to change colour and are speckled with red.

As soon as they are cool enough to handle, split them in half and extract all the meat from the body, tail and large and small claws. Scrape out all the soft, greenish tomalley (liver) from the part of the shell nearest the he