Poached lobster with gastrique sauce
Ingredients
Poached lobster:
- 2 whole live lobsters (455-565 grams each)
- Salt, to taste
Gastrique sauce:
- 6 tablespoons (90 milliliters) sugar
- 1/2 cup (120 milliliters) apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons (30 milliliters) of butter
- Zest of 1 lime
Directions
Poached lobster:
- Bring salted water to a boil in large pot.
- Add both lobsters.
- Cook for six to eight minutes.
- Remove lobsters and chill in ice water.
- Clean the meat out of the shells using lobster crackers, or the back of your chef knife.
Gastrique sauce:
- Place sugar in frying pan, and heat over medium heat. As it heats, sugar will start to melt and caramelize.
- When sugar is golden brown, add apple cider vinegar and mix.
- Simmer and let the sauce thicken.
- Once the sauce has thickened, add butter and lime zest and mix constantly.
- Add lobster meat to the sauce and cook for two to three minutes.
