Baked Lobster

Name: Baked Lobster (Aragosta al Forno)
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 x 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) live lobsters; 4 tablespoons very finely chopped fresh parsley; 6 tablespoons virgin olive oil; Salt and Freshly ground black pepper; Juice of 1 lemon; Salt and Freshly ground black pepper

Aragosta al Forno

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Antonio Carluccio's Southern Italian Feast

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 1998

About

When you have a relative abundance of lobsters and you want to enjoy them prepared simply, as fishermen do in Sardinia, then you don’t need to look for sophisticated ways of cooking the king of crustacea.

Ingredients

4 x 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) live lobsters
6

Europe
Italy
Fish course
Gluten-free
Pescatarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C, 400°F, Gas mark 6. Cut the live lobsters in half. (If you pierce through the cross mark in the centre of the head they will be killed instantly.) Mix the other ingredients together and pour them over the lobster flesh.