Summer is upon us and that can only mean one thing – the world-famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival has arrived.
It’s such a fantastic time to be living in the centre of Edinburgh. I love walking around the city and soaking up the eccentric festival atmosphere. This year, I’ve especially enjoyed testing the wide variety of high-quality food trucks that are dotted around the city centre.
The trend with food trucks this year seems to be wooden, rustic shacks selling crabs and lobsters. Just yesterday I came across a chock-a-block stall that was selling battered lobster tails for only £8 – what a bargain!
However, the problem you have when serving something battered is that you normally need a fork and knife to eat it, so it might not seem so appealing for customers who are ‘on the go’. My favourite way to eat lobster is either plain, grilled or served cold with heaps of mayonnaise. I’ve had lobster many times but from a flavour point of view, it’s best served cold without too much fuss.
Cooking lobster is not as hard as you may think. All you need to do is make sure you’re in the mindset that a lobster is just a big prawn. You can eat it hot or cold, BBQ it or add spices and it will still come back fighting. The meat you’ll find on a whole lobster will be the same amount of meat you’ll find on a T-bone steak – it’s a lot more than you think and it’s pure protein.
A whole lobster (approximately 500g) should take around four minutes to cook in a big pot of boiling water. After the lobster is cooked, put it to one side and leave it to cool. Then pull the lobster apart into two bits and remove the delicious white meat. Pull the tail off and peel it as if it was a large prawn.
When it comes to garnishes, I like to keep it simple. Take two thick slices of chunky bread and fill them with thin slices of the cooked lobster, top with lots of mayonnaise and pimentos and you’re good to go. As a treat I also love cooking surf & turf and lobster mac ‘n’ cheese.
Lobsters, the king of crustaceans, may be known as a luxurious delicacy but they’re affordable and widely available so go and give them a try!
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