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Lobster with escargot butter
Photo: David Todd McCarty

Lobster with escargot butter

16 ingredients 1 hr + 30 min Serves 4 openrecipes

Buying ready-cooked lobsters is a great way to serve a Tom Kitchin classic with minimum effort. The herb butter is usually served on escargots, but is perfect with lobster.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1001
Calories
70g
Protein
28g
Fat
116g
Carbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Pork 100g cooked 242
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Fennel 1/2 bulb (87g) 27
Mushroom 1/2 cup sliced (35g) 15
Almond 1 almond (1.2g) 7
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Mustard 1 tsp (5g) yellow 3
Tarragon 1 tsp dried (0.5g) 2
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Rapeseed Oil not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 500g/1lb 2oz soft butter
  • 2 tbsp rapeseed oil
  • 50g/2oz Parma ham
  • 100g/3½oz button mushrooms
  • 3 garlic
  • 100g/3½oz shallots
  • 100g/3½oz fennel
  • 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh tarragon
  • 1 tbsp Pommery mustard
  • 1 tbsp dried breadcrumbs
  • 1 cooked lobster
  • 2 tbsp ground almonds
  • 2 whole cooked lobster
  • 50g/2oz butter
  • 200g/7oz samphire

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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