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?

Once inside a trap lobsters can never get out.

False – Lobsters Often Escape

Lobsters will often get out of traps - that is part of the design. Traps are built to allow undersize lobster to exit easily. Plus an escape hatch is made of biodegradable twine in case the trap is lost at sea. Adult lobsters will also escape traps at times; it is just more difficult.