Roast Lobster

Name: Roast Lobster
Yield: Serve six people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 tbl chopped thyme; 50 ml cognac; 150 ml semillon; 500 g butter; 6 cloves garlic, crushed; 3 kg lobster; ½ cup chopped parsley; 6 shallots, chopped; 1 tsp salt; ½ tbl ground black pepper; chopped parsley to garnish; ⅓ cup chopped basil; 1 tbl English mustard

Preparation info

Serve
six
people

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Tony Bilson's Recipe Book

By Tony Bilson

Published 1987

About

This recipe is based on one of Michel Guérard’s and is a very simple way of preparing lobster. It is preferable to grilling as it renders the lobster far more moist and tender.

Ingredients

3 kg lobster
chopped parsley to garnish

Europe
Oceania
France
Australia
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

The herb butter

Soften the butter and combine in a bowl with the other herb butter ingredients. Put the herb butter into a piping bag equipped with a nozzle that has a plain, 1-cm diameter hole. Place the bag in the refrigerator and leave for 45 minutes.

Preparing the lobster

Take the lobster from the fr