The lobster is large and cylindrical, considered the best shrimp in the world. It has a lot of meat that is fresh and tasty. However, cooking lobster to maintain its natural tenderness and flavor requires some skill and technique. Eating lobster in the most convenient way also requires some skill.
How to Cook Lobster Deliciously: Garlic Butter Lobster
Ingredients Needed
1 lobster, broccoli, green peas, garlic, oyster sauce, butter as needed.
Cooking Steps
1. Thaw the frozen lobster at room temperature.
2. Place in cold water and steam for a while.
3. Chop the garlic into minced garlic. Wash the broccoli and break it into small florets. Blanch in boiling water. Boil the green peas briefly.
4. Melt the butter over low heat, add minced garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. Add an appropriate amount of oyster sauce.
5. Add some boiling water, then add the cooked green peas.
6. Cut the steamed lobster down the back and pour the prepared garlic sauce on top.
How to Cook Lobster Deliciously: Scallion and Ginger Lobster
Ingredients Needed
2 lobsters, scallions, ginger, chicken essence, cooking wine, sugar as needed.
Cooking Steps
1. Clean the lobsters thoroughly.
2. Pat dry the lobster pieces with kitchen paper, coat them with cornstarch, and fry until they turn orange-red.
3. Leave some oil in the pan, add scallions and ginger to sauté until fragrant. Add the fried lobster pieces, sprinkle a little chicken essence and cooking wine.
4. Add a little water, simmer over medium heat until the sauce thickens, then serve.
Tips
1. After coating with cornstarch and frying, there's no need to thicken the sauce with a cornstarch slurry.
2. Because the lobster shell is hard, we recommend using scissors, aiming for the membrane where the shells connect, and using clever force.
How to Eat Lobster Properly
How to Clean Lobster
1. Hold the lobster from the back, with its belly facing outward. Insert a chopstick into the lobster's urinary pore up to near the head, remove the chopstick, and drain the water.
2. The lobster will now be motionless. Easily remove the claws first, open the head cover, and clean out the gills.
3. Remove the stomach sac located in the head and extract the brain marrow.
The Correct Way to Eat Lobster
The process of eating lobster is as follows: smell, lick, lift, eat, twist, pinch, peel, pull, tear.
1. Smell: Take in the aroma of the lobster.
2. Lick: Taste the spicy, numbing, and aromatic flavors.
3. Lift: Lift off the lobster's cephalothorax.
4. Eat: Eat the roe.
5. Twist: With one hand outward and the other upward, remove the walking legs.
6. Pinch: Pinch the abdominal segments gently with both hands.
7. Peel: Peel off the upper part of the abdominal segments.
8. Pull: Extract the lobster's intestine.
9. Tear: If the intestine cannot be pulled out, tear the flesh and remove the intestine.