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Lobster Recipes
Brunch
Lobster Pistachio with Chinese
Salad and Pistachio Vinaigrette
Lobster Pistachio
1 cup dry sherry
6 cups water
2 Tablespoons chopped ginger
3 Tablespoons chopped lemon grass
2 each 1 pound Maine lobsters, steamed and shelled
1 Tablespoon sesame oil
2 Tablespoons finely chopped carrots
2 Tablespoons finely chopped Chinese cabbage
1 Tablespoon finely chopped green onion
1/4 teaspoon ground dry ginger
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 teaspoons lemon zest, finely chopped
2 teaspoons Kikoman soy sauce
1/2 cup rice flour
2 cups coarsely chopped pistachio nuts
3 cups corn oil
Chinese Salad
2 carrots peeled and julienned
2 red peppers, julienned
1/2 head Chinese cabbage, julienned
Pistachio Vinaigrette
1 cup pistachio nuts
1 Tablespoon cilantro
1 Tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 Tablespoon honey
salt & black pepper to taste
1 cup corn oil
1/2 cup rice vinegar
In a 4 quart sauce pan add the sherry, water, ginger and lemon
grass. Bring to a simmer. Add lobsters, then cover and continue
cooking for 7 minutes. Cool quickly, then pick lobster meat out of
shells and put pieces in large bowl.
In a sauté pan, heat sesame oil on medium-high heat; add carrots,
Chinese cabbage and green onion. Sauté about 1 minute; drain oil
and add vegetables to lobster meat.
Add ginger, cayenne pepper, eggs, lemon zest, soy sauce and rice
flour. Mix together. Set in refrigerator for 1/2 hour.
Roll lobster mixture into balls about the size of a golf ball then
roll into chopped pistachio nuts. Heat corn oil in wok to about
325 degrees. Add lobster balls to oil, moving around until heated
through and golden brown. Set aside.
Place the julienned carrots, red peppers and Chinese cabbage into
clean bowl.
Make vinaigrette in a food processor. Add pistachio nuts,
cilantro, lime juice, honey, and salt & pepper. Blend well and
slowly add corn oil and rice vinegar.
Toss salad with vinaigrette (save small amount of vinaigrette to
garnish). Assemble salad in the middle of individual serving
plates. Drizzle a little of the leftover vinaigrette around salad.
Place two lobster balls to plate and serve.
Serves: 6
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