Cook's Corner Recipe: Lobster With Mushrooms In Cream Sauce
From Linda Cicero's Cook's Corner
MAIN DISH
LOBSTER WITH MUSHROOMS IN CREAM SAUCE
3 tablespoons butter
1 pound mushrooms, sliced
1/4 cup dry sherry
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup half-and-half
1 ½ tablespoons cornstarch
2 cooked and shelled Maine lobsters (1 pound each) or 3 to 4 Florida or rocklobster tails (about 4 ounces each)
2 hard-boiled eggs, 1 yolk reserved, diced
Salt and cayenne pepper or Tabasco to taste
8 slices white bread, toasted, cut into triangles
Melt butter in a sauté pan. Add mushrooms and sauté over medium-high heat for 3 minutes. Sprinkle with sherry and lemon juice and cook, stirring, over high heat until most of the juices evaporate. Dissolve cornstarch into the cream and slowly stir into the mushroom mixture, cooking over medium heat until thick. Add the lobster, cut into small pieces. Add the chopped egg. Flavor to taste with salt, pepper or Tabasco and additional sherry as desired.
Butter toast, if desired, and set on dinner plates; lay lobster tail shells, cupped sides up, beside toast. Quickly spoon mixture into tail shells and onto toast. Sieve reserved egg yolk over each serving. Makes 4 servings.
Per serving: 404 calories (45 percent from fat), 20.1 g fat (11.1 g saturated, 5.7 g monounsaturated), 226.6 mg cholesterol, 31.2 g protein, 21.3 g carbohydrates, 1.5 g fiber, 591.4 mg sodium.
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