PEI Lobster Dip

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 C cream cheese
  • 1/4 C sour cream
  • 1/4 C cooked spinach
  • 2 TBSP chopped dill
  • 1 C frozen mango
  • 1/3 c cooked red pepper
  • 1/3 C brown sugar
  • 1/8 C white wine vinegar
  • 8 oz lobster meat shelled
  • 4 oz charred corn
  • 4 oz shredded cheddar

Directions:

1. In a pot, cook together mango, red pepper, brown sugar and vinegar to form a chutney. Cook until ingredients have combined and no liquid remains. Set aside.

2. In a bowl, combine cream cheese, spinach, sour cream and chopped dill until evenly mixed.

3. In a bowl, layer dip by putting down cream cheese/spinach mixture first. Top with charred corn.

4. Next, layer on mango chutney on top of spinach mixture and corn.

5. Top mango chutney with shelled lobster meat.
Then top shelled lobster meat with cheddar cheese.

6. Serve with crackers and bread!

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.