Lemon Butter Lobster Tails

Flippen Lekka Recipes / Seafood

Lemon Butter Lobster Tails

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Ingredients

  • Fresh lobster tails
  • 1/3 cup butter
  • 2 tablespoons snipped fresh chives
  • 1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel
  • 5ml Flippen Lekka Spice

Method

  1. Rinse lobster tails and pat dry with paper towels
  2. Butterfly tails by using a sharp knife to cut lengthwise through centre of hard top shell and meat, cutting to, but not through, bottoms of shells
  3. Press shell halves of tails apart with your fingers
  4. For sauce, in a small saucepan melt butter
  5. Remove from heat
  6. Stir in chives, spices and lemon peel
  7. Remove a few tablespoons of the sauce and set the remaining sauce aside
  8. Lightly grease the rack of a gas grill
  9. Preheat grill
  10. Reduce heat to medium
  11. Brush lobster meat with some of the sauce
  12. Place lobster, meat sides down, on the grill rack directly over heat
  13. Cover and grill for 6 minutes
  14. Turn lobster
  15. Brush with the rest of the tablespoons sauce
  16. Cover and grill for 6 to 8 minutes more or until done
  17. Heat the reserved sauce, stirring occasionally
  18. Transfer the sauce to small bowls for dipping and serve with lobster
  19. Can also be prepared on the coals
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