Frozen gray lobsters are boiled for 15-20 minutes. If the lobsters are red, they are already boiled, they just need to be placed in water and bring the water to a boil.
Cook langoustines for 3-5 minutes.
How to cook lobster
1. Inspect the lobsters: red lobsters have already been cooked, they were frozen after heat treatment; and if the lobsters are gray, then they were frozen alive.
2. Pour water into a saucepan with a reserve, add 1 teaspoon of salt for each liter of water.
3. Put on gloves so as not to cut yourself with pincers, lay out the lobsters, wait for a boil and cook the lobsters for 15-20 minutes if they are fresh, and 5 minutes if they are boiled and frozen.
When cooking langoustines, pay attention to the color of the scales:
green: cook in boiling water for 3 minutes until the chitinous cover reddens;
red (boiled-frozen): 2 minutes in hot water is enough.
4. Remove the lobsters from the water, serve.
Serve lobster with oyster or soy sauce.
The fastest and most popular recipe for lobster appetizer is cooking in broth with lemon, salt and spices (pepper, cloves, bay leaf). During cleaning, spices from the shell will also fall on the meat, which will add a special taste and aroma. If you wish, you can cook already peeled langoustines: then it is worth lowering them in boiling water for no more than 15 seconds.
Fact facts about lobsters
– Langoustines and langoustines do not differ in cooking and are “relatives”, but note that these are different seafood. Lobsters can be very large and resemble crayfish, only lobsters lack fleshy claws. And langoustines are like huge shrimps, 2 palms long.
– When cooking, lobsters do not require the addition of spices at all: the meat is very soft and tender. Boiled lobster meat can be dipped in fish or soy sauce, or poured with orange juice.
– It is very simple to check the lobster for readiness: completely cooked meat is white.
– In the lobster they eat everything except the legs and chitin, in the lobster there is practically no intestinal debris.
– Lobsters are low in calories (90 calories per 100 grams).
– The content of lobsters (per 100 grams) – 17 grams of protein, 2 grams of fat.
– Lobsters do not contain carbohydrates at all.
– Lobsters are rich in calcium, magnesium, copper and iodine.
– The price of lobsters is from 1100 rubles / kilogram of frozen seafood (average price in Moscow for September 2018). It is considered a delicacy, the high cost of lobsters is explained by the fact that they are not bred in Russia.