Lobster mac n cheese

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Ingredients

  • 1500 gr. whole live lobster , or 2 small ones
  • 2 onions
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 50 gr. unsalted butter
  • 1 small pinch of saffron
  • ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 2 anchovy fillets
  • 200 ml white Burgundy
  • 50 gr. plain flour
  • 1.1 litres semi-skimmed milk
  • 2 teaspoons English mustard
  • 400 gr. dried amori pasta , or macaroni
  • 70 gr. mature Cheddar cheese
  • 70 gr. Gruyère cheese
  • 70 gr. Parmesan cheese

Method

  1. Place the live lobster in the freezer for 30′ so it’s docile.
  2. Fill your largest deep pan with water, season with sea salt and bring to a rolling boil.
  3. Swiftly plunge the lobster head first into the water, place the lid on and cook for 8′, or slightly less if you’re using 2 small ones.
  4. Remove and leave to cool.
  5. Peel and finely chop the onions and garlic.
  6. Get yourself a large ovenproof casserole pan that you want to serve up in.
  7. Put the butter into the pan on a medium heat, add the onions, garlic, saffron, cayenne and anchovies and cook for 10′.
  8. Turn the heat up to high, add the wine and cook it away, then reduce the heat back to medium and stir in the flour, followed by the milk and mustard.
  9. Mix well and simmer for 10′ while you prepare the lobster.
  10. Twist the lobster head and body apart, importantly, shake out all the tasty juice and bits from the head into the sauce.
  11. Squeeze the tail shell in until you hear it crack, then rip it open the other way to expose all that lovely tail meat.
  12. Rip the claws off the body, then use a rolling pin on a board to crack them open and poke out any meat you can find.
  13. Roughly chop all the meat, reserving the tail, shell and head.
  14. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for our helpful video on how to prepare your lobster.
  15. Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
  16. Cook the pasta according to packet instructions and reserve a little cooking water.
  17. Remove the sauce from the heat, stir in the pasta, the lobster meat and grate in the Cheddar and Gruyère.
  18. Mix well, taste and correct the seasoning, you don’t want the sauce to be super-thick now, so loosen it with a little cooking water if needed.
  19. Finely grate over the Parmesan.
  20. For a bit of fun, pop the lobster head and tail into the pan at either end.
  21. Cook in the oven for about 35′, or until golden, bubbling and delicious.
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