Roast Lobster

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

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

Oceania
Europe
Australia
France
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

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