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Home-smoked lobster with a warm lime and herb butter sauce
Photo: David Todd McCarty

Home-smoked lobster with a warm lime and herb butter sauce

12 ingredients 30 min + 30 min Serves 4 openrecipes

Equipment and preparation: You will need 200g/7¼oz of wood chips for this recipe.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

276
Calories
25g
Protein
17g
Fat
7g
Carbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Tarragon 1 tsp dried (0.5g) 2
Chives 1 tbsp (3g) 1
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Wood not in our table 0
Chervil 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

  • 6 peppercorns
  • 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • 1 x 900g/2lb live lobster
  • 1 lime
  • 2 tbsp double cream
  • 125g/4½oz unsalted butter
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 200g/7¼oz wood chips
  • 1 tsp finely chopped fresh chives
  • 1 tsp finely chopped fresh tarragon
  • 1 tsp finely chopped fresh chervil
  • 1 tsp finely chopped fresh flatleaf parsley

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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