Lobster Filled Potatoes

Ingredients:

  • 8 Medium sized potatoes, baked and halved
  • 1⁄3 cup (80 ml) Mayonnaise
  • 1/4 cup (60 ml) Sour cream
  • 2 cups (500 ml) Fresh or canned lobster meat, chopped
  • 2 Spring onions, sliced
  • 1 tbsp (15 ml) Dijon mustard
  • 1 tbsp (15 ml) Chopped fresh tarragon
  • 1/2 tsp (3 ml) Smoked paprika
  • 1/4 cup (60 ml) Grated Parmesan

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375ºF (190ºC).

Bake potatoes for 60 to 70 minutes.

Halve the potatoes lengthwise.

Scoop out the potatoes; reserving the shells.

Add the mayonnaise and sour cream to the potatoes and mash.

Add the lobster meat, spring onion, tarragon, mustard and paprika and mix thoroughly.

Fill the potato shells with the lobster and potato mixture. Sprinkle parmesan over the potatoes.

Place the potatoes on a baking sheet and place in an oven preheated to 375ºF (190ºC). Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.

Do You Know Lobster?

A freshly laid lobster egg is the size of the head of a pin (1/16").

True – Lobster Eggs Are Tiny

Lobster eggs are indeed about the size of the head of a pin. A female lobster carries about 8000 eggs inside for 9-12 months, then another 9-12 months under her tail. Fishers have to return lobsters to the water that have visible eggs under their tail as part of fishery conservation methods. And from every 50,000 eggs, only two lobsters are expected to survive to legal size.