09/08/2020
Lobster Salad
Lobster salad is an excellent choice for a luncheon or hot weather dinner. The salad can be served over lettuce leaves or used to fill sandwich buns.
If you are lucky enough to have a few freshly steamed lobsters, this is an excellent way to enjoy them. We enjoy lobster with butter, but a lobster salad is my favorite.
Arrange this lobster salad on lettuce leaves or mixed greens with avocado wedges or fresh sliced tomatoes around the edge of the plate. Or, use the lobster salad mixture to fill toasted hot dog rolls.
Lobsters are easy to steam or boil as long as you have a large pot. Once the lobsters are prepared you will need to know how to remove the meat for the salad.
Ingredients
1 pound cooked lobster meat, diced, from about 3 to 4 whole 1-pound lobsters
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup celery, thinly sliced
4 to 6 tablespoons mayonnaise, or more, to moisten
Kosher salt, to taste
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Mixed salad greens (or lettuce leaves)
Optional: 1 avocado (peeled, quartered, and brushed with lemon juice), sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumber
Gather the ingredients.
Ingredients for boiled lobster salad
Toss the cooked, diced lobster meat with lemon juice and the celery.
Dice lobster meat
Gently stir in mayonnaise and then season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Stir in mayo
Mound the lobster salad on lettuce leaves with a wedge of avocado, cucumber and tomatoes.
Mound of lobster on salad
This lobster salad can also be used as the sandwich filling for a lobster roll in a sweet bun or in traditional toasted hot dog buns with lettuce.
Lobster salad on bun
Variations
This lobster salad can also be used as the sandwich filling for a lobster roll in a sweet bun or in traditional toasted hot dog buns with lettuce.
How to Steam Lobster
Place a rack in a large pot. Add about 2 inches of salted water in the pot and bring the water to a boil over high heat.
Steamed pot
Add the lobsters, cover the pot, and begin timing.
Lobster in pot
About halfway through the cooking time, lift the cover and shift the lobsters around with tongs.
Lobster in pot
Replace the cover and continue cooking.
Replace cover
Lobster Steaming Times
1 to 1 1/4 pounds - 10 to 12 minutes
1 1/2 pounds - 18 minutes
2 pounds - 18 minutes
2 1/2 pounds - 22 minutes
3 pounds - 25 to 30 minutes