Lobster Tails With Lime, Chili, Garlic & Butter
Recipe: #10062
July 11, 2013
Categories: Lobster, Birthday, Fathers Day July 4th, Mothers Day, Romantic Dinner, Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, more
"Lobster is a very special dinner so you want a recipe that does it justice. We like this recipe it has a bit of punch and the garlic compliments the lobster. You may BBQ the lobster just butterfly the tail and baste a couple of times while cooking. The cooking time depends on the size of your tails. The shells will be bright red and the meat opaque. I find that the tails tend to be smaller than years ago and only need about 15 minutes"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (364.4 g)
- Calories 312.3
- Total Fat - 17.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 9.7 g
- Cholesterol - 148.1 mg
- Sodium - 893.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 23.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.6 g
- Sugars - 6 g
- Protein - 21.9 g
- Calcium - 115.3 mg
- Iron - 1.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 73.4 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Before the tails are completely defrosted carefully cut away the membrane on the underside of the lobster tail. I use kitchen shears to do this.
Step 2
Preheat oven to 450f.
Step 3
Very carefully separate the meat from the shell.
Step 4
Rinse the shell and meat, dry.
Step 5
Place the meat back in the shell but opposite to how you took it out. So it sits raised out of the shell.
Step 6
In a pan melt the butter with the garlic, chili, lime juice and zest.
Step 7
Cook over medium high heat for about 3 minutes or until the garlic is aromatic and lightly browned.
Step 8
Brush the butter mixture on the tails.
Step 9
Bake in preheated oven for apprx. 15 minutes or until the tails are cooked. Do not over cook.
Tips
No special items needed.