How To Cook Full Lobster On The Grill
Learn how to grill lobster in particular spiny lobster to perfection in this simple lobster recipe.
How to cook full lobster on the grill. Place lobster halves flesh side down and claws on hottest part of grill. Prepare your charcoal grill with a single load of charcoal setting up for direct grilling but keeping the cooking grids in the higher position. Heat a charcoal grill or set a gas grill to high.
Place the lobsters in head first and cook for 5 minutes until the flesh is just set. Lobster is grilled over direct medium heat. Season the lobster meat with salt and pepper and with a pastry brush paste the shell and exposed meat with olive oil or your favorite butter mixture.
Bank coals or turn off burner on one side see grilling 101. Then turn it over brush on more lemon butter and cook shell side down for another five minutes. Grill the lobster tails.
Put the lobster on a board. Brush all over with oil and season with salt and pepper. Lay them across the grill cut side down and cook them for about five minutes or until the shells turn bright red.
Grill flesh side down until lightly charred. Cut in half lengthways with a large kitchen knife. Clean and lightly oil the grill and get your coals at medium heat.
Open up the lobster leave in or remove the soft brown meat depending on your preference remove the stomach sack at the back of the head. Grill flesh side down for approximately 5 7 minutes then flip. Bring a pot of salted water to the boil.