
Peter McKenna’s Maple and Scotch Whisky Glazed Smoked Butter Poached Lobster
Mains / Fish and Seafood

1 portion
Ingredients
- Native lobster
- 500g butter
- 100ml maple syrup (preferably amber syrup for its rich taste)
- 50ml maple vinegar
- Splash Bowmore 15-year-old
- Blackthorn salt to season
Method
- Cold smoke the butter for 1 hour.
- Clarify and remove milk solids.
- Blanch the lobster for 3 minutes in boiling seasoned water, refresh in ice water.
- Boil the maple syrup and reduce to half the volume, add the maple vinegar and bring back to boil, reduce till a balance of flavour is achieved once cool add the Bowmore to taste.
- Cut the chilled lobster tail in half and carefully crack open the claws, remove the flesh and clean the carcass.
- Poach the flesh in the smoked butter (at 56 – 57 degrees) for 5 minutes.
- Once the lobster is cooked remove from the butter and place neatly back in its shell.
- Brush on the maple glaze, season with the blackthorn salt and finish on a BBQ to accentuate the smoky flavours.
An elegantly simple lobster dish with the smoky aromas of 15-year-old Splash Bowmore whisky and butter.
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