Grilled Spiny Lobster with Caribbean Sauce

 

Grilled Spiny Lobster with Caribbean Sauce

 

This week I decided to present a very colorful recipe, synonymous with sun and based on one of the finest seafood: lobster (langouste). « Chien » sauce has a Creole origin and accompanies grilled fish, fritters or shellfish . Let’s go to our recipe for Grilled Spiny Lobster with a « chien » Sauce.

 

Time : 30 minutes

Ingredients: (for 4 people)

  • 2 lobsters (spiny lobster / langouste)vert-de-vin-recette-sauce-chien
  • salted butter
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 3 spring onions (or chives)
  • 1 white onion (medium size)
  • 1.5 cloves of garlic
  • 1/ 2 red bell pepper
  • 1 teaspoon of White Rum
  • 1 limes
  • 1 tomato
  • fleur de sel
  • pepper
  • 1 small chilli Caribbean (or a cayenne or Matoube can will do it)
  • olive oil
  • 2 sprigs of parsley

Preparation:

  1. Ask your fishmonger to cut your lobsters in two partsvert-de-vin-recette-langouste-grillée
  2. Preheat the oven in grill position
  3. Place the lobster halves on a baking pan
  4. Place on each lobster a dab of salted butter
  5. Bake for 8/9 minutes depending on the size of your lobster. (If you have a barbecue fry the the lobsters starting with the shell side. Once the pearl color flesh back and let leather 5 minutes)
  6. Meanwhile prepare the sauce chien
  7. Finely chop the spring onions and white onion
  8. Zest the lime
  9. Finely chop the parsley, pepper and garlic
  10. Take out the tomato seeds then cut into small cubesvert-de-vin-recette-langouste-sauce-chien
  11. Cut the pepper into thin strips and short
  12. Deseed and chop the chilli (WARNING: to be determined depending on the desired “hot spice”)
  13. Mix everything in a bowl with 3 tablespoons olive oil
  14. Squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the sauce
  15. Adjust seasoning (salt / pepper)
  16. Boil water
  17. Add two ladles of boiling water into the bowl, stir and cover immediately to infuse
  18. Add a teaspoon of White Rum
  19. Serve it! (you can accompany it with a mixture of differents kind of rice cooked in Creole way)

Side Wine & food pairing : What to drink with grilled lobster « chien » sauce ?

  • Rumvert-de-vin-larrivet-haut-brion-pessac-leognan
  • Puligny- Montrachet  – Burgundy (white wine)
  • Santenay – Burgundy (white wine)
  • Riesling Alsace – Alsace (white wine)
  • Saint-Aubin – Burgundy (white wine)
  • Pessac-Léognan – Bordeaux (white wine)
  • Côtes de Bordeaux-Saint-Macaire – Bordeaux (white wine)
  • Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux – Bordeaux (white wine)
  • White Bergerac – South West (white wine)
  • Meursault 1er Cru – Burgundy (white wine)
  • Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru – Burgundy (white wine)
  • White Corbiere – Languedoc Roussillon (white wine)
  • Châteauneuf-du-Pape white – Rhone (white wine)
  • …

 

Bon appétit! Enjoy !

 

Jonathan Choukroun Chicheportiche

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