Broiled Lobster Tails with Lemon Butter Sauce Recipe

You will need :-

2  quarts water

2 tablespoons salt

1 package (1 pound 8 oz.) frozen South African rock lobster tails

1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted Lemon Butter Sauce (below)

Heat water and salt to boiling in saucepan. Add lobster tails, cover tightly and heat to boiling. Reduce heat; simmer about 15 minutes. Drain.

With kitchen scissors, cut away thin under shell (covering meat of lobster tails). To prevent tails from curling, insert long metal skewer from meat side through tail to shell side, then back through shell and meat at opposite end. Place tails meat side up on broiler rack. Brush with butter.

Set oven control at broil and or 550°. Broil tails meat side up 3 inches from heat 2 to 3 minutes. remove skewers and serve with Lemon Butter Sauce in lemons cups.

Serves 3 - 4.

Lemon Butter Sauce

1/2 cup butter or margarine

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 tablespoon snipped parsley

1/4 teaspoon red pepper sauce

Heat all ingredients over low heat, stirring constantly, until butter is melted. Keep warm.