Lobster with Chips

Name: Lobster with Chips
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Yield: 4 Servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 (500g) cooked lobsters; 4 tbsps clarified butter; 150ml fish stock; 100g butter, cold and cubed; Juice of ½ lemon; A handful of tarragon leaves, roughly chopped; Salt; 500g Maris Piper potatoes, peeled and sliced into 2cm-thick batons; Sunflower oil for deep frying; Salt; Some mixed salad leaves; A few lemon wedges

preparation 10 minutes
cook time 20 minutes
Serves 4

Recipe taken from World on a Plate by Jack Stein (£26, Absolute Press)

Ingredients Method

4 (500g) cooked lobsters
4 tbsps clarified butter
150ml fish stock
100g butter, cold and cubed
Juice of ½ lemon
A handful of tarragon leaves, roughly chopped
Salt
For the chips:
500g Maris Piper potatoes, peeled and sliced into 2cm-thick batons
Sunflower oil for deep frying
Salt
To serve:
Some mixed salad leaves
A few lemon wedges

First prepare the chips. Rinse the potatoes in water to remove the starch. Immerse them in boiling water for 6 minutes, then drain and dry them on kitchen paper. Now double-fry them in the sunflower oil: first at 140ºC for 4 minutes (leaving to cool afterwards), then at 180ºC until crisp and golden. Season with salt.

Preheat the grill so that it is hot. Cut the lobsters in half and season with salt; pour over the clarified butter and place the lobsters on a grill tray. Cook under the grill for 8–10 minutes until cooked through; the internal temperature should have reached 68ºC. You may need to do this in batches; if so, keep the cooked lobsters warm on a plate under foil.

For the sauce, heat the stock, let it boil, then whisk in the cold butter until emulsified. Finish with salt, the lemon juice and tarragon. Scoop out the cooked head meat and anything left on the grill tray and put it into the sauce.

Serve the lobsters and chips with a green salad. Drizzle the sauce over the salad and lobsters.