Before moving on to the story of how to cook lobsters, I would like to say a few words about these crustaceans. In our country, Norwegian lobsters are less popular than their close relatives - shrimp and lobster. Nevertheless, in cooking they are considered a delicacy, and in this article we will talk about how to cook lobsters.
Langoustines with rosemary
Perhaps this is the easiest recipe for making a Norwegian lobster, which means that anyone can cope with it. So, read about how to cook lobsters in the oven:
- Take some fresh spiny lobsters and cut with a sharp knife along the ridge without cutting them to the end.
- Dilute the shell to the sides, salt and pepper the meat.
- Cover the baking sheet with foil, put langoustines on it, sprinkle them with sprigs of fresh rosemary and sprinkle with olive oil.
- The dish is baked in the oven under the grill for about ten minutes.
Put the baked crustaceans on a dish, sprinkle them with lemon juice and olive oil. Serve spiny lobsters to the table still hot, garnishing first with slices of lemon.
Langoustines are frozen. How to cook?
Norwegian lobster can be prepared not only as a main dish, but also as a snack for beer. No matter how exotic these crustaceans look, they, in fact, can easily replace the shrimp familiar to Russians. How to cook langoustines:
- Defrost crustaceans (the larger the better) at room temperature, and then rinse in cold water.
- With a sharp knife or kitchen scissors, make cuts on the abdomen, not reaching the end.
- Brush the meat with pesto using a cooking brush.
- Sprinkle generously with fresh herbs and drizzle with olive oil.
Bake lobsters in a preheated oven until their meat turns white. It will take 10-15 minutes. After that, sprinkle the Norwegian lobster with lemon juice and serve immediately with chilled drinks to the table.
Fried Langoustines with Garlic and Parsley
Prepare an original dish according to the recipe described below. We are sure that you will appreciate its taste and ease of preparation.
- Defrost 15 lobsters, clean them from the shell, remove the head and intestines.
- Chop parsley, garlic and hot pepper for the sauce. Mix greens with lemon juice and salt.
- Dip the prepared spiny lobsters in the sauce and let it marinate for half an hour.
- At this time, you can cook a salad with which I will serve langoustines.
- How to cook? It is not necessary to fry prepared meat for a long time. It is enough to hold it in a heated pan for several minutes on one side and several on the other.
How to cook boiled-frozen langoustines
Norwegian lobster meat is considered a delicacy not only for its taste, but also for a number of useful elements that make up its composition. We want to share with you a recipe for a Mediterranean salad, which, of course, includes langoustines:
- To get started, prepare a mustard dressing. To do this, combine 50 grams of olive oil, 50 grams of balsamic sauce and 30 grams of mustard. Mix the ingredients well.
- Cut several peeled tomatoes, three colored bell peppers and celery into cubes.
- Combine the vegetables in a suitable bowl, add the leaves of the Frieze salad and mix with dressing.
- How to cook langoustines? To do this, freeze thawed crustaceans from the shell and marinate for 15 minutes in a mixture of olive oil, orange juice, chopped rosemary, salt and pepper. Put the prepared lobster meat on lettuce leaves and serve.
Salad with daikon and langoustines
Take on one more exotic salad and surprise your friends or relatives with a new taste:
- Cut 25 grams of radish and 25 grams of black radish into very thin slices.
- Cut green radish (35 grams) into large slices.
- Chop 10 grams of pickled daikon into thin rings.
- Cut 30 grams of regular daikon into thick circles. Try to ensure that all types of vegetables differ from each other in size and texture.
- How to cook langoustines? To do this, we boil them in salt water with the addition of garlic and thyme. When the lobsters are ready, separate and cut the meat, and leave the claws for decoration.
- Boil some of the chopped daikon in water, adding a couple of spoons of honey to the dipper first. Boil the second part of daikon in water, in which a cup of beetroot fresh is added.
- Boil green radish in salted water with a spoon of turmeric.
- For the sauce, dissolve one bag of lecithin in water, add wasabi to taste and beat everything with a mixer.
- Now you can begin to create a salad. To do this, put the sauce on the dish, put vegetables and lobster meat on it in a slide. If desired, garnish the dish with claws and fresh herbs.
Langoustine Soup
Even a novice housewife will cope with the preparation of this light and fragrant soup:
- Peel half of fennel, one onion and one carrot from the skin and chop with a knife.
- Heat two tablespoons of vegetable oil in a saucepan and fry the vegetables until golden brown. At the very end, add two cloves of garlic to them for flavor.
- Cut the fillet of two sea bass and ten langoustine meat into large pieces and place in the vegetables.
- Pour two liters of water into a saucepan, add turmeric and cook for ten minutes.
- Grind two tomatoes and put them in the soup, add thyme, bay leaf, parsley and 250 ml of dry white wine to taste.
- Reduce heat and simmer soup for another half hour. After that, grind its contents with a blender, salt and pepper.
Serve the finished soup puree to the table with cream and fresh herbs.
Neapolitan Langoustines
Surprise your family with a real Italian dish. How to cook langoustines? Read the recipe for their preparation:
- Defrost spiny lobsters, wash them in water and fry in vegetable oil on both sides until tender.
- When the meat is ready, remove it and put it on a plate. Chop the garlic (four cloves) and fry in the remaining oil.
- Take 800 grams of fresh tomatoes and chop them with a blender. After that put the garlic mashed tomato and continue cooking them together.
- Pour 100 grams of dry white wine into the stewpan, add salt and pepper.
- When the excess liquid evaporates, pour 800 grams of cream into the tomatoes and simmer it all together until the sauce thickens.
- Put lobsters and chopped greens in a stewpan. When the sauce is warm, serve it with pasta.
Conclusion
We hope you find the information on how to cook langoustines useful. Recipes of simple dishes will help hostesses diversify the menu and make it even more interesting.