How To Make Grilled Lobster with Charred Chili Sauce
Treat yourself to a delightful dinner meal by whipping up this tender grilled lobster dish that’s served topped with a homemade smoky chili sauce!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2large plum tomatoes
- 1spanish onion
- 1scotch bonnet,or habanero chili
- 2medium garlic cloves
- 1tbspolive oil
- 1tbspfresh thyme leaves
- ¼cupfresh cilantro,chopped, leaves and stems
- 2tbspfresh mint,finely chopped
- cupsesame oil
- 2tbspsoy sauce,low-sodium
- 2lobsters,(1¼ to 1½ lbs each)
- 4tbspunsalted butter
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
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Toss the tomatoes, onion, chili, and garlic with the olive oil. Arrange the mixture on a rimmed baking sheet and sprinkle with thyme.
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Roast, shaking the pan periodically to ensure even cooking, for about 30 minutes, until all vegetables are well charred. Remove pan from oven and let vegetables cool to room temperature.
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Put the charred vegetables in a food processor. Add the cilantro and mint, and process to a coarse puree. With the motor running, drizzle in sesame oil, then add soy sauce, and puree until smooth.
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Place the lobster halves cut side up in a large baking dish or other container large enough to hold them in a single layer. Spoon half of chili sauce over the lobsters.
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Cover loosely with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour. Reserve remaining sauce.
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When ready to cook lobster, preheat a gas grill or a ridged grill pan to medium or prepare a fire in a charcoal grill, letting the coals burn down until covered in white ash. Oil the grill rack.
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Lift lobster halves from marinade and turn them over, letting any excess marinade run off.
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Put them cut side down on the grill, and cook for 5 minutes. Use tongs to turn them over and grill, using a brush to baste meat with the butter, for another 5 minutes, or until meat turns opaque and begins to pull away from shell.
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Put 1 lobster half on each plate and the remaining sauce in a bowl.
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Spoon remaining chili sauce over lobster, serve, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 239.33kcal
- Fat: 18.08g
- Saturated Fat: 8.28g
- Trans Fat: 0.47g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 6.60g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.10g
- Carbohydrates: 5.85g
- Fiber: 1.45g
- Sugar: 2.47g
- Protein: 14.12g
- Cholesterol: 125.78mg
- Sodium: 763.28mg
- Calcium: 91.80mg
- Potassium: 358.29mg
- Iron: 1.00mg
- Vitamin A: 125.45µg
- Vitamin C: 10.38mg
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