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If the thought of boiling lobster in the kitchen while cooking your steak on the grill seems likes too much work for you to prepare a surf and turf meal at home, think again. Lobster is easily grilled, so you can prepare both entrees at the same time! Read on learn how to grill lobster and add variety to a summer cookout.
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Grilling Lobster
This video demonstrates how to grill lobster, and how to make a herb butter to flavor the grilled lobster. The method used in this video uses lobsters which have been cooked until about 75% done by either boiling or steaming. the lobsters are then split and finished on the grill. The expert on the video points about that doing most of the cooking ahead of time makes grilled lobster a great entree to serve when entertaining.
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Introduction
- Although not as common a preparation method as boiling or steaming, grilling allows you to cook lobster outdoors without the need to clean a 20 gallon lobster pot.
Step 1: How to Grill Lobster
What You Need to Grill Lobster
- Live lobster
- Chef's knife
- Charcoal or gas grill
- Tongs
- Melted butter
Preparing the Lobster for Grilling
- When you boil or steam a lobster, you place it into the pot live and it is killed instantly by the hot water or steam. In order to grill a lobster, you need to kill it first.
- You can kill the lobster by boiling it for two minutes.
- You can also kill it by taking a sharp chef's knife and slicing through the lobster where the head meets the body, severing the spinal cord.
- After killing the lobster, lay it on its back, and use a chef's knife to split it down the middle. This will allow the lobster to lay flat while cooking, and, as a result, cook more evenly.
Grilled Lobster Instructions
- Preheat your gas grill to high, or allow your coals to reach the stage where you can only keep your hand six inches above them for one to two seconds.
- Cook for 10 minutes, turning and basting occasionally with melted butter. The shell will turn red, and the meat will turn white as the lobster cooks.
Step 2: Grilled Lobster Tips
- Substitute barbecue sauce for the butter while basting.
- If the lobster seems to be cooking slowly, cover it with a tent of aluminum foil to hold in the heat.
- Herbs or aromatic wood can be placed on the lava rocks or coals to flavor the lobster while it grills.
- Poultry shears may make it easier to slice the lobster open, particularly at the tail end.
Step 3: Grilled Lobster Recipes
- Lobsters with Laura: Grilled Lobster
- Food Network: Grilled Lobster Smothered in Basil Butter
- Recipezaar: Grilled Lobster
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