Lobster Roll - Best

• servings: 4 servings
• active time: 30 minutes
• total time: 55 minutes

Ingredients

4 New England-style hot dog buns

4-5 live lobsters (1 ½ pounds each) (or 1 pound fresh lobster meat)

1 stick (½ cup) salted butter (softened)

Handful of fresh chives (snipped)

Directions

To Cook Lobsters

Add 1-2 inches of water into an extra-large pot. Bring water to a boil. Add lobsters to the pot and cook (covered) for 20 minutes, keeping the water at a gentle boil. Lobsters should be bright red at 20 minutes.

Remove lobsters from pot and let cool long enough to crack them without burning your hands. Use lobster crackers to remove lobster meat from the tails, claws, and knuckles (see video below for step-by-step instructions!).

Rinse any tomalley (green stuff) from the tail meat with warm water. Chop lobster meat into bite-sized pieces. Set aside in a bowl.

To Make Rolls

Note: if you bought pre-cooked lobster meat, skip the above steps, and chop lobster meat into bite-sized pieces. Let rest at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Use a quarter stick of butter to generously butter both sides of each bun.

Preheat a large pan over medium-high heat. Once hot, add the rolls so one side toasts for 1-4 minutes until golden. Flip rolls to the other side and toast for another 1-4 minutes until golden. Remove rolls from heat.

Melt the rest of the butter (three-quarters of stick). Toss lobster meat in the warm butter and chives.

Use tongs to stuff warm buttered lobster meat evenly into each roll. Serve right away with lemon wedges if desired.

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 lobster roll
• Calories: 402 kcal
• Total Fat: 26 g
• Saturated Fat: 15 g
• Unsaturated Fat: 9 g
• Trans Fat: 1 g
• Cholesterol: 205 mg
• Sodium: 856 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 19 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2 g
• Total Sugars: 3 g
• Protein: 23 g