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Pumpkin Seed and Masa Crusted Lobster Tail Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Root Vegetable and Roasted Corn Salad
  • 1/3 cup beets, peeled, small dice, blanched al dente
  • 1/2 teaspoon raspberry vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • To taste kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 ear sweet corn, shucked, grilled, cut from cob
  • 1/3 cup red bell pepper, stem removed, seeded, small dice
  • 1/3 cup celery root, peeled, small dice, blanched al dente
  • 1/4 cup scallions, white only
  • Combine beets with vinegar, oil, salt and pepper, reserve, and keep warm. In a medium gauge sauté pan over high heat bring oil to smoking point. Add remaining vegetables and stir fry for one minute, season, and reserve, keep warm.
  • Crusted Lobster Tail
  • 1 cup raw, shelled, pumpkin seeds, toasted
  • 1 cup masa harina
  • 1-1/2 pounds fresh lobster tail meat, portioned in two ounce pieces
  • 1 pound seasoned flour, (salt, cayenne and white pepper to taste)
  • 2 cups egg wash
  • As needed clarified butter
  • In a food processor, pulse pumpkin seeds and masa until minced and will blended. Bread the tail pieces in the following order, flour-egg wash-masa mixture. In a sauté pan over medium high heat sauté breaded lobster in about an 1/8 inch clarified butter until lightly brown. Start each batch with clean hot butter. When all of the lobster is finished reserve, keep warm.
  • Presentation
  • 1 pound beet greens washed, stemmed
  • 2 tablespoons pure pumpkin seed oil
  • 6 each scallion brush
  • Sauté beet greens in 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat; season to taste with salt/white pepper. Pour off any excess liquid and place greens in the center of 6 serving plates. Pipe potatoes in a spiral on top of greens. Scatter warm salad around potato mound and dot plates with pumpkin seed oil and reserved beets. Make two mounds of fennel slaw on each plate across from one another. Place one lobster piece on each mound while leaning on potatoes. Garnish each plate with a scallion brush.

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  • sunny 15 years ago
    Wow -impressive recipe. Wish I lived closer and could stop by next time you make this. = )
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