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Ingredients
Lobster Salad:
- 1/2 pound fully cooked lobster meat or 1 (2 1/2 pound) live lobster
- 1/2 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded and finely diced
- 1/4 cup bottled mayonnaise
- 1/2 tablespoon fresh tarragon
- 2 small scallions, thinly sliced
- Kosher or sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 2 to 3 New England-style hot dog buns
- 2 to 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- Pickles and potato chips as accompaniment
Directions
Prepare the lobster salad.
If using live lobsters, steam or boil them. Let cool at room temperature. Use a cleaver to crack and remove the meat from the claws, knuckles and tails. Remove the cartilage from the claws and the intestines from the tails of the cooked meat. Cut the meat into 1/2-inch dice. You may pick all the meat from the carcass and add it to the meat or freeze the carcass for soup or broth.
Place the cucumber in a colander for at least 5 minutes to drain the excess liquid. Combine the lobster, cucumber mayonnaise, and tarragon. Add the scallions. Season with salt and pepper. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Preheat a large heavy skillet (12 to 14-inches) over medium-low heat (a black cast-iron pan is perfect). Lightly butter both sides of each bun. Place them in the pan and cook for about 2 minutes until golden brown. Turn the buns over and toast the other side. Or toast the buns under a broiler instead. When the buns are ready, stuff them with the chilled lobster salad. Place each roll on a small paper or china plate; garnish with pickles and potato chips. Serve at once.
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By simskl_3327844
Middletown, CT
on September 24, 2011
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May not pass muster by the purist but this is one tasty lobster roll.
By bostonbean1
on July 02, 2011
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Well,I was born In Boston,MA and haved lived in New England for all but six and a half years of my sixty years of life. Many lobster rolls have I eaten,both homemade and out to eat. Never have I had one that resembles this recipe.
People from other parts of the country who think this is a true New England lobster roll will be misguided. A real New England lobster roll,the kind I've had all my life,consists of a flat sided, flat topped, fairly thin sided,non-sweet New England style roll,buttered well and pan toasted,cold lobster bites mixed with mayo,salted lightly perhaps and really,nothing else.
It's the combination of the taste and texture of the toasted buttered roll with the creamy sweet goodness of the fresh lobster mixed with mayo that makes a true masterpiece of the New England lobster roll.
By 940977
Bangor, ME
on June 27, 2011
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I think the name of this recipe is deceiving. This is not how a World-Famous Maine Lobster Roll is traditionally made. I was born and brought up in Maine. Everyone in Maine knows that a real Maine Lobster roll is Lobster meat mixed with a little mayo. Putting cucumber, tarragon, etc. in it is fine if that is what you like, but it not the traditional way to make a Maine Lobster roll. It is covering up the sweet succulent flavor of the Lobster meat. I think most would agree that a real Maine traditional style Lobster roll is made using the New England traditional style hot dog roll with maybe a little lettuce on the bottom with fresh chunks of lobster meat mixed with a little mayo. It may be a good recipe, but not what I think most Maine people would consider to be the World Famous Maine Lobster roll.
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