Lobster with Garlic Butter

Ingredients for Lobster with Garlic Butter

• 2 small garlic cloves

• 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened

• 1 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley

• 2 (575g) live lobsters

• Garnish: lemon wedges

• sea salt

• N/A sea salt

How to make Lobster with Garlic Butter

Preheat oven to 232°C with a large shallow baking pan in upper third.

Mince and mash garlic to a paste with 1/2 teaspoons salt, then stir together with butter and parsley.

Plunge lobsters headfirst into a large pot of boiling salted water (3 tablespoons salt for 5.7L water) and cook, covered, 3 minutes from time they enter water. Transfer with tongs to a plate and let stand 5 minutes. (Lobsters will not be fully cooked.)

Lightly crack claws, then split lobsters lengthwise and discard innards from body cavity.

Remove tail meat from 1 lobster and cut crosswise into 8 pieces. Spread about 2 tablespoons garlic butter in one empty half shell, then fill that shell with all of sliced lobster and dot with 1 tablespoon garlic butter. Spoon about 5 tablespoons garlic butter into other empty half shell (for dipping). Repeat with remaining lobster.

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