Recipe
Ingredients
(1 ½ LB.), STILL SQUIRMING, 2 EA.
COARSELY CHOPPED, 3 EA.
CUT INTO LARGE DICE, 1 EA.
INCLUDING LEAVES, CHOPPED, 1 EA.
LARGE, SPLIT, SEEDED AND RIPPED COARSELY, 1 EA.
2 EA.
RIPE, DICED, OR 2 CUPS/473 ML DICED CANNED TOMATOES 3 EA.
½ TSP.
4 OZ.
PARCOOKED OR OTHER SHORT-GRAIN RICE, 2/3 CUP
JUICE OF, 2 EA.
½ CUP
RINSED AND DEBEARDED, ½ LB.
AS NEEDED
Directions
Step 1:
Preheat your oven (or smoker) to 500°F/260°C, or its highest level.
Step 2:
In a wide, metal pan, place ¼-cup of olive oil, the garlic, onion, and celery. Put it in the oven and let cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion softens, 8 minutes. Add the green pepper. Cook for about 5 minutes, until the color brightens and they turn a bit brown.
Step 3:
Add chouriço, bay leaves, tomatoes, and saffron. Cook for 20 to 30 minutes, simmering the “sauce” in the oven. Add the risotto and stir.
Step 4:
Split the lobster from head to tail. Scrape the entrails out of the body and head cavities. Clean the vein in the tail. Crack the claws with the back of a French knife or whack with a meat mallet. (This permits the claw meat to cook in approximately the same time as the tail.) Add the orange juice and stock to the sauce. Place the lobster halves on the sauce, spooning some onto all parts of the lobster.
Step 5:
Back to the forno. Cook for 10 to 20 minutes, then add the mussels. Cook for about as long again. When it is done, the lobster tail meat will be firm (not dry—that’s why you spooned the sauce over it). The mussels will be open and the rice cooked through. Add salt and pepper to finish. The chouriço and the natural brininess of the mussel and lobster juice add salt; do taste before you salt.
Step 6:
Serve in the casserole dish with big spoons, claw crackers and picks.
Maine lobster
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