HOW TO COOK: STEAMED LOBSTER TAILS
Rich, versatile lobster tails are simple to steam for speedy weeknight meals. Cooking lobster in its shell imparts great flavor and helps the tail keep its shape, plus it's easier to remove the cooked meat from the shell. If using frozen lobster tails, thaw them in the refrigerator for 8 hours or overnight.
Time 10m
Yield Serves 4
Number Of Ingredients 2
Steps:
- Use a sharp knife to cut each tail in half lengthwise.
- Rinse tails briefly under cold water to remove any grit or shell fragments.
- Bring 1 inch water to a boil in a large pot or deep skillet with a tight-fitting lid.
- Place a steamer basket over water. Place tails, cut-side up, in the basket.
- Cover and steam until meat is just opaque and very plump, 5 to 6 minutes; do not overcook or meat will begin to shrink and dry out.
- Serve warm with sauce of choice: Try melted butter with lemon or garlic, an herb sauce like chimichurri or a soy sauce-based Asian dipping sauce; just make sure the flavors are not too strong or too sweet or they will overwhelm the natural flavor of lobster.
- You can also cool and dice tail meat and use it for lobster salad or lobster rolls.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 90 calories, Fat 1 grams, SaturatedFat 0 grams, Cholesterol 145 milligrams, Sodium 480 milligrams, Carbohydrate 0 grams, Protein 19 grams
HOW TO STEAM LOBSTER TAILS
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Provided by Vanessa Seder
Categories entree
Time 7m
Number Of Ingredients 3
Steps:
- Choose a pot large enough to hold your lobster tails with a tight-fitting lid that is large enough to fit the lobster tails with enough room for the steam to circulate around them.
- Place a steamer basket or an upturned colander in the pot so lobster tails are not submerged in the water.
- Pour in cold water to a depth of about 2 inches.
- Cover your pot and bring water to a boil.
- Once the water is boiling, quickly add the lobster tails to the pot and cover.
- Steam the lobster tails using the lobster tails steaming times below.
- Once you have reached your approximate cooking time, remove the pot from heat and check one of the tails. The tails should be completely cooked in the center of the meat.
- Remove your lobster tails from the cooking pot using tongs or gloves so that your tails to not overcook.
- Serve with drawn butter and enjoy!
BOILED OR STEAMED LOBSTERS
Lobster may be considered a delicacy, but it's a cinch to prepare. When you visit the fish market, don't be surprised at the crustacean's black or bluish-brown color; the familiar bright-red hue comes only with cooking.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Seafood Recipes
Number Of Ingredients 2
Steps:
- To boil: Fill a very large (4-gallon) stockpot three-quarters full with cold water. Bring to rolling boil; add salt. Plunge lobsters, one at a time, headfirst into the water. Cook, uncovered, 12 to 14 minutes (from the time lobsters enter pot).
- To steam: Fit a very large stockpot with a steaming basket (or use a round wire rack or an inverted metal colander). Fill pot with cold water just to reach bottom of basket. Cover; bring to a boil. Quickly set lobsters in one layer in pot (or cook in batches). Cook, covered, 15 to 17 minutes.
STEAMED LOBSTER TAILS
Steps:
- Pour about 1 inch of water in the bottom of a large pot and bring to a boil. Add the salt and place a steamer insert inside the pot so that it is just above the water level. Put the lobster tails on the rack and cover the pot. Cover and steam for 8 minutes. And don't peek! Serve with melted butter.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 356.4 calories, Carbohydrate 0.9 g, Cholesterol 222.5 mg, Fat 24.5 g, Protein 32.2 g, SaturatedFat 14.9 g, Sodium 1986.6 mg
PERFECT LOBSTER TAILS
We tried lobster tails every which way -- steamed, baked, grilled, broiled -- and this is our favorite. Fast and foolproof, this recipe is your ticket to an impressive main course in minutes.
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Time 20m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat the broiler. Place a wire cooling rack inside a rimmed baking sheet. Cut the top shell of the lobster tails lengthwise down the middle with kitchen shears. Then, using a knife, cut all the way through the tails to split into 2 pieces. Place them flesh-side up on the prepared baking sheet.
- Mix together the butter, parsley, shallot, lemon zest, 1/2 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper in a small bowl until well combined.
- Spread 2 teaspoons of the compound butter on the flesh of each lobster tail half. Broil until the shells turn a bright orange, the flesh is opaque and cooked through and the tails begin to curl, about 4 minutes.
- Transfer the tails to a serving platter and top each half with another teaspoon of the compound butter (save the remainder for another use).
STEAMED LOBSTERS
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories main-dish
Time 41m
Yield 4 lobsters
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Choose a pot with a tight-fitting lid that is large enough to fit the lobsters comfortably with enough room for the steam to circulate around them. Wrap the lid tightly with a kitchen towel. Place a steamer basket or an upturned colander in the pot, and pour in cold water to a depth of about 2 inches. Cover and bring to a boil.
- Meanwhile, put the lobsters on a cutting board. Place the tip of a large, heavy knife at the cross marks on the back of a lobster's head. In one quick motion cut down through the head to the cutting board. Repeat with the remaining lobsters.
- To keep the tails straight and ensure even cooking, slip a thin wooden skewer through the length of the lobster's tails.
- When the water is boiling, quickly add the lobsters to the pot and cover. Steam the lobsters, shaking the pot occasionally, until cooked through, about 8 minutes for 3/4 to 1 pound lobsters, about 10 minutes for 1 to 1 1/4 pound lobsters, and about 11 minutes for 1 1/2 to 2 pound lobsters.
- Remove the lobsters from the pot and, if you are serving them whole, set them aside for several minutes to rest. Using the back of the heavy knife or a mallet crack the claws. Transfer the lobsters to plates and serve with drawn butter and lobster claw crackers.
- To remove all the meat from the lobster: Transfer the lobster to a colander in the sink and rinse under cold running water to stop the cooking. Using your hands, twist the claws, knuckles, and tails off of the lobsters. Reserve the bodies for making broth.
- On a work surface, rest the tails on their sides and, using the palm of your hand, press down on them to crack the shells. Holding a tail with both hands, with the belly facing you, break the tail shell back and pop out the meat. Repeat with the remaining tails. If you have female lobsters (the swimmerets at top of the tail are soft and have hair-like wisps protruding from them), you may want to prepare coral butter, (recipe follows) with the roe. The roe are the dark green eggs located in the body and the top of the tail. Carefully cut open the top of the tail and the body and remove the roe.
- Grab the "thumb" of a lobster claw and move it back and forth. Try to wiggle the shell off of the meat while pulling out the internal piece of cartilage, leaving the meat attached to the claw (this is a tricky maneuver, if it doesn't work you should be able to shake the meat out). Place the claw horizontally upright with the curve of the claw facing up. Using the heavy part of the blade of the knife, with a short and swift motion, crack the back end of the claw. Drop the claw to its side and, with the back of the knife, crack the side of the back of the claw. Remove the cracked back end of the claw and wiggle the meat out from the shell. Repeat with the remaining claws.
- Place the knuckles on the work surface and cover with a kitchen towel. Using the back of the knife, crack the knuckles. Using your hands, remove the shell from the knuckles and carefully pick out the meat. You may also use kitchen shears to cut open the knuckles and remove the meat.
- Place the butter in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil for 1 minute.
- Set the saucepan aside and let the butter settle, undisturbed. The milk solids will come to the top of the butter and the watery whey will collect on the bottom. Skim off the milk solids with a spoon and pour the drawn butter into a serving bowl or several small ramekins, taking care not include the watery liquid in the bottom of the pan. Serve.
- Yield: about 1 cup
- Place the butter in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil for 1 minute.
- Set the saucepan aside and let the butter settle, undisturbed. The milk solids will come to the top of the butter and the watery whey will collect on the bottom. Skim off the milk solids with a spoon and pour the drawn butter into a small bowl. Wipe out the sauce and return the drawn butter to it.
- Place the roe in a medium bowl and whisk lightly to break it up. Heat the butter over medium heat until just hot. Gradually pour the warmed butter over the roe, while whisking, until the eggs turn bright red. Serve with lobster or other shellfish.
- Yield: about 1 cup
HEALTHY STEAMED LOBSTER TAILS FOR ONE
I modified a recipe I found to come up with this for a new diet I'm on. Sounds like a healthier alternative to all the buttered lobster tail recipes I found.
Provided by Sandra E.
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 30m
Yield 1 lobster tail, 1 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Defrost lobster tail in fridge for 24hrs.
- Remove thin underside membrane from lobster-tails with scissors.
- Push bamboo skewer length wise through tail to prevent curling.
- Place colander over boiling water in large pot, or use steamer.
- Place lobster tails in colander; place vegetables on top and around tails.
- Combine soy sauce, broth, and water; brush over tails and vegetables.
- Cover pot; steam 20 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender and lobster meat loses translucency and is opaque.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 52.2, Fat 0.8, SaturatedFat 0.2, Sodium 668.2, Carbohydrate 8.4, Fiber 2.6, Sugar 2.8, Protein 5.2
EASY ONE PAN STEAM LOBSTER TAILS WITH WINE, BUTTER GARLIC SAUCE
I was experimenting one night before a dinner party. I decided to make lobster tails which I have never done before. I threw together flavors that I thought would taste good!! It was a hit...Everyone loved it!! I had to write the recipe down for a few people!! The best part of all it was easy and all in one pan!!! Try it and let me know if you like it!! If you find things that make the recipe better let me know!!!!!
Provided by Smadden
Categories Lobster
Time 13m
Yield 5 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- First you will need a sauce pan that has a steamer basket. If your lobster tails are frozen thaw them out. Cut the top of the lobster tail enough to allow expansion of the meat. In the sauce pan - on a medium low heat mix together the garlic, butter and white wine stirring occasionally. Once the butter wine mix comes to a boil, place the steam basket and cover. Let the Lobster tails steam for 8 minutes. They will turn bright red. Set aside. Using a strainer, pour the butter wine mixture into serving cups. Use the butter wine mixture to dip the lobster tails inches I hope you enjoy it!
LOBSTER TAILS
I've never done lobster before, but after seeing them for such a good price on sale, I couldn't pass them up! I saw different recipes for either steaming or broiling them, but I did both and they turned out fantastic!! I also made the citrus butter and my son said that they tasted much better after being dipped in the butter!
Provided by LDSMom128
Categories Lobster
Time 40m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- In a large pot, add the water and kosher salt to boil. Add the lobster tails and allow to boil for about 20 minutes and the meat is white and the shells are bright red.
- Remove the tails from the water. I used tongs and they were easy to remove them that way. Allow them to cool for about 10 minutes.
- Turn on the broiler in your oven.
- Make the citrus butter in a small bowl. The 10 minutes while the lobster cools will allow the flavor to increase!
- Using a very sharp knife or kitchen shears, Cut off the top shell of the tail, exposing the meat. Lay the tails on a baking sheet and brush on the butter.
- Broil for about 6-8 minutes. Watch carefully to not burn!
- Enjoy with the remaining butter.
HOW TO STEAM A LOBSTER
Make and share this How to Steam a Lobster recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Andi Longmeadow Farm
Categories Lobster
Time 18m
Yield 2 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Fill pot with water to match pounds of lobster. (3 qts. per 2 pounds lobster).
- Add seasonings, vegetable, and garlic.
- Bring water to rolling boil.
- Add live lobsters one at a time (if more then one), starting to time immediately. (10 minutes per pound for first pound of lobster, 1 minute per pound thereafter = 2 pound lobster= 12 minutes).
- Do not cover.
- Stir lobster half-way through cooking time.
- Let lobster rest for a full five minutes to allow the meat to absorb the moisture from the shell.
- Carefully remove and grab a bib.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 386.3, Fat 3.5, SaturatedFat 0.9, Cholesterol 576.6, Sodium 15919.7, Carbohydrate 8.5, Fiber 1.4, Sugar 3.2, Protein 76.1
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