Name: Lobster with lemon & herb butter sauce
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 cooked lobster (see tip below for video guide on how to prepare lobster), claws and tail meat kept separate from the smaller bits of meat; crusty bread to serve; juice ½ lemon; 100g cold butter cut into cubes; small bunch chives finely snipped; small handful basil leaves chopped; 110g bag of rocket; ½ an avocado stoned, peeled and sliced; leftover bits of lobster meat; juice ½ lemon; 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 cooked lobster
(see tip below for video guide on how to prepare lobster), claws and tail meat kept separate from the smaller bits of meat
crusty bread
to serve

For the sauce

juice ½ lemon
100g cold butter
cut into cubes
small bunch chives
finely snipped
small handful basil leaves
chopped

For the salad

110g bag of rocket
½ an avocado
stoned, peeled and sliced
leftover bits of lobster meat
juice ½ lemon
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Method

step 1
To make the sauce, warm the lemon juice in a small saucepan. Add the butter, a few cubes at a time, swirling them into the lemon juice over a very low heat to melt them, adding a few more pieces until all the butter is used. Take the sauce off the heat, season to taste and keep warm.
step 2
To make the salad, gently toss the rocket, avocado and lobster meat together. Dress with the lemon juice and olive oil, and toss again until everything is mixed and coated.
step 3
To serve, stir the herbs through the sauce and pour into a ramekin or small bowl. Put the sauce on a plate and pile the large chunks of lobster meat on one side and the salad on the other. Bring the plate to the table to share – dip the tail meat, claws and crusty bread into the sauce.