These delicious lobsters are first boiled in water then served with olive oil and apple cider vinegar dressing and pea shoots.
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Four 1 ½ pound lobsters
- 3 ½ pounds mixed red, yellow, and orange tomatoes, seeded and cut into ¼ inch dice
- 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon honey
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 4 cups pea shoots or watercress leaves
- 3 tablespoons roughly chopped basil leaves
Directions:
- In a large stockpot, pour 1 inch of water, bring it to a boil over medium heat.
- Add in lobsters, head first, cover, and cook for 15 minutes or until meat is opaque.
- Remove from pot with a slotted spoon and transfer to a cutting board back-side down.
- Meanwhile in a small bowl, whisk together oil, apple cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, honey, salt, and pepper until well combined, set aside.
- In a large bowl toss together tomatoes, 3 tablespoon oil mixture, and basil set aside.
- Cut the lobsters in half down the middle by using a sharp knife.
- Divide pea shoots between 4 serving plates and place the lobster on top of each plate.
- Fill the body cavities with the tomato mixture and season with pepper.
- Serve with the remaining olive oil dressing.