Maine Lobster Cobb Salad
Maine Lobster Cobb Salad
A traditional Cobb Salad will use chicken, bacon and blue cheese -- but this bad boy uses lobster.This recipe is courtesy of Get Maine Lobster.
Prep Time
20
minutes
Cook Time
5
minutes
Servings
2
Total time: 25 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 pound live maine lobster, or perfectly cooked fresh lobster meat
- 3 ounce lettuce mixture
- 1 medium avocado, diced
- 1 hard cooked egg, sliced
- 4 artichoke hearts, quartered
- 1 roma tomato, diced
- 1/4 cucumber, diced
- 4 ounce lobster salad dressing
- croutons, for garnish
- 1 lemon, for garnish
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 pinch of salt and pepper, to taste
- 1/8 teaspoon tabasco sauce
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 lemon, juice only
- 2 tablespoon cognac
Directions
- Steam Maine lobsters for 7 minutes.
- Clean and save all meat and shells.
- Cut tail meat into medallions, leave claw meat in whole pieces.
- Toss lettuce mixture with tomato, cucumber, artichoke hearts, the remaining knuckle and body meat from the Maine lobster, and the dressing. Arrange on oval platter.
- Arrange the medallions of Maine lobster meat on top of lettuce mixture creating the form of a Maine lobster using the shell with the claw meat on each side and the tail fin at the base of the medallions.
- Arrange hard cooked eggs, avocado fans, croutons, and lemon wedges around the Maine lobster.
- Whisk all ingredients together.