How To Cook Lobster Tail

There’s nothing quite so luxurious and tasty as a well-cooked juicy lobster tail. This is a video for How to Cook Lobster Tail like a pro! A good Lobster tail recipe makes eating lobster even better! Don’t miss on this Lobster Tail slathered in garlic sauce dipped in herb melted butter. Just melt in your mouth food!

Best Lobster Tail Recipe

There are so many reasons why I love this lobster tail recipe! I’m also sharing below the different ways to cook your lobster so you can make gourmet lobster tail at home now. Pair this with something like Best NY Strip Steak and make a Surf n Turf dinner at home.

If you love shellfish and felt any bit intimidated to cook them, see this detailed video on How to Cook Scallops with two different recipes in the same post! 

This oven method creates a beautiful presentation of the whole tail and the meat perfectly cooked inside. Show stopping to serve and super easy to make

Make sure to also read our Butter Poached Lobster for another way of succulent lobster. Also read our Lobster Stock so you can make use of those shells. And finally, excess lobster meat makes great Lobster Bisque, Lobster Pasta and Lobster Roll.

Why You’ll LOVE this lobster recipe:

• The lobster tail is slathered in my famous Garlic Sauce. 
• This lobster tail recipe is broiled which is my favorite way, but I’m sharing below how to bake and boil lobster too.
• I love serving lobster with melted butter that’s slightly flavored like this Garlic Butter Sauce.
• As soon as you master the technique shown in the video to carefully remove the lobster meat from the tail, this lobster recipe will be a breeze to make! 
• Simply Delicious!
• Lobster meat is SUPER Juicy!

How To Cook Lobster Tail 

The lobster tail might seem like a tricky dish to cook, but when you get down to it, it’s not all that difficult and the enjoyment at the end is well worth it. 

Ingredients for Lobster Tail 

For this lobster tail recipe, you will need either fresh or frozen lobsters (cold water lobster), garlic sauce or minced garlic,  herbs (parsley, oregano, thyme, mint or. combo), chilli flakes, salt, pepper, lemon juice, and butter. Lots of butter. Even better, make this 1 minute Garlic Butter Sauce.

How to Prep Lobster Tail

To prepare lobster tails for cooking, you’ll want to start by detaching the tender meat from the shell membranes but still keeping the tail and shell intact. 

To do this, grab a sharp pair of scissors and with your kitchen shears cut the tail shell in half-length ways, starting from the top. 

Then you can start to slather the garlic marinade over the flesh of the lobster tail. 

To make the marinade, place the garlic sauce / minced garlic in a small bowl and add the herbs, chilli flakes, salt, pepper, and lemon juice and thoroughly until well combined into a thick flavorful mixture. 

This is the mixture you are going to cook your lobster tail in. 

To coat the lobster flesh, start by putting some of the garlic sauce underneath the tail flesh and then pull the tail out of the shell but still keep them intact together. 

Now coat the rest of the flesh in the rest of the garlic sauce and leave it slightly elevated above the shell but still intact. This gives an attractive butterflied lobster tail appearance while making it easier to eat once cooked. 

Broiling Lobster Tail

The best way to cook the lobster tail is to broil it as it comes out really nicely with this method, Cooking your lobster quickly so that it retains that nice juicy texture. 

Place the eat at least 6 inches under the heat element and broil on low. Depending on which type of lobster you use and the ize of the lobster tail you have, broiling time will vary slightly. 

As soon the meat turns pink and opaque, you’ll know it’s done!

Other ways to Cook Lobster

You can use any method of cooking lobster tail but some ways are better than others: 

• Butter Poached Lobster – Succulent and heavenly!
• Grilled lobster – will give you an even and quick cook
• Boiled lobster –   Makes a great texture but you can’t cook it with a marinade so you’ll end up with a more bland dish. 
• Baked lobster – You are more likely to dry out your lobster by baking it and it will take a bit longer though it will still work nicely.
  

How to cook frozen lobster tail?

It’s sometimes easier and a bit cheaper to buy frozen lobster tails. They will come fully frozen in their shells. To cook them, they need to fully thaw or, here  I recommend boiling as the best way in a large pot since you’ll break the meat apart by trying to detach it from the shell using my method. 

How to cook lobster in the oven? 

Most people will use their oven to cook this recipe, so you can either bake or broil it. As I’ve said earlier, broiling is definitely my favorite way to cook this lobster tail recipe. Broiling is cooking by direct radiant heat, so to broil you’ll need to use the direct top grill setting on your oven to broil the lobster after placing it on a baking sheet on your oven pan.

How long to cook lobster tail?

This will vary depending on the size of your lobster tail, but I recommend broiling it for between 14-16 minutes for most average-sized lobsters as well as the strength of your oven. You need to make sure you cook your lobster until the meat is opaque otherwise it will be undercooked. This definitely should not take longer than 20 minutes. 

Serving your Lobster Tail

Once you have broiled or cooked your lobster tail it’s time to serve it with the melted butter sauce. You can make the Garlic Butter Sauce which is a no cook one. 

The easy sauce for this recipe is super easy to make. Just melt your butter either in the microwave in a small bowl or on the stovetop. Then mix the melted butter with the herbs, seasonings ( and optionally a little garlic powder to make it garlic butter). 

Once your melted butter sauce is made pour it over your lobster tail, add your lobster tails to a serving plate, and serve immediately while hot and fresh.  

This is a super decadent meal that will surely impress any guests you have over, or you can treat yourself if this recipe is just for you. 

What I love most about this recipe is that it’s a healthy luxurious meal, full of protein and all that seafood goodness. This is not a recipe to miss out on, so definitely give this one a try for mouthwatering lobster yumminess.

Lobster Cooking Tips

• Make sure you buy quality lobster tails. Fresh lobster Tails are best for broiling. 
• Frozen lobster tails are great to boil right from frozen, however you can defrost them and cook in a different way.
• Make sure when removing the flesh of lobster tail from the shell to leave some flesh intact.
• Coating the lobster meat in the garlic sauce mixture adds so much flavor compared to a salt and pepper seasoning.
• Make sure you get the sauce deep between the shells and meat as well.
• When broiling the lobster tail, make sure the heat element is about 6 inches away from your lobster meat.
• As soon as the shells turn pink and the lobster meat is completely opaque, the lobster tail is cooked.
• Drench in melted butter sauce right away and have extra for serving.
• If cooking more than one lobster tail, make sure they’re all the same size so they cook evenly.
• Avoid over drying the lobster.

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Butter Poached Lobster
Lobster Bisque
Lobster Roll
Best Lobster Pasta

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