Jamaican style Lobster tails in Jerk Sauce with Coconut rice | Cooking Lobsters | Jamaican recipes

 

Juicy lobster tails with caramelized jerk sauce suits perfectly with flavorsome coconut rice. 

To be honest I have never cooked or tasted lobster in my life. But it has always been in my bucket list for a very long time. When a Jamaican friend of mine talked about a lobster recipe, I thought, " This is my time to cook lobsters finally!". It's always safe when you try a new recipe go with the evens. So I thought of going with the ones with rice because if I didn't like the taste of lobster I can still manage. However, I liked the taste of lobster and even ordered from "Red Lobster". 

In this recipe, I have used small size lobster tails and cut it lengthwise. Cutting lengthwise is very easy if you have a meat cutting scissors which I predominantly use to cut seafoods. I got poached lobster tail so I skipped that part. If you are using non poached, then you have to cut off the tail after poaching or without poaching whichever works for you. Everything about this recipe is pretty much straight forward. Let's get started!

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Ingredients:

Coconut rice:

• 1 tbsp vegetable oil or sunflower oil
• 2 cups, Basmati rice washed
• 1 1/4 cups coconut milk, unsweetened 
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 1 tsp kosher salt or 1 1/4 tsp powdered salt
• Spring onions and cilantro , a handful
• Cilantro, a handful

Jerk Sauce:

• 3 tbsp vegetable oil / sunflower oil
• 4 cloves chopped garlic
• 1 inch ginger, peeled and chopped finely
• 1 bunch scallions chopped finely
• 1 1/2 tsp Scotch Bonnet pepper sauce
• 2 tsp Ground all spice 
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• Salt to taste
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp Fresh Thyme leaves
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup water or chicken stock
• 1 lime zest
• 2 lime juice
• A handful cilantro 

Lobster tails

• 3- 4 lobster tails, cut into halves (Lengthwise)
• 1 stick unsalted butter (optional)

Method:

- For Coconut rice:

To cook coconut rice, in a deep pot add some oil over medium heat.

Add washed basmati rice by draining water. Saute the rice for 2- 3 mins.

Add 1 1/4 cups coconut milk and 2 1/2 cups water with salt and combine gently.

Increase the heat and let it boil for 5 mins. Cover the pot and cook it for medium heat for 5 mins.

Once the water in the rice has evaporated that means the rice has cooked 90 percent.

At this point, reduce the heat level to low and keep it covered and cook for 5 to 10 mins and turn off the heat and leave it there until you garnish.

Coconut rice is ready. Now garnish with some finely chopped cilantros and scallions.

- For Jerk Sauce & Lobster tails:

Add oil in a sauce pan over med/high heat.

When the oil is heated add in the finely chopped garlic and ginger, scallions. Saute until they are aromatic.

Now it is time to add in more powders and spice. Add in the all spice powder and ground cinnamon, bay leaf, salt and nutmeg powder along with the scotch bonnet pepper ( I have added scotch bonnet pepper sauce). It has got a kicking spice flavor into the sauce. Let it cook for few mins.

Also stir in the thyme leaves, dark brown sugar, soya sauce and lime zest. By this time almost all the ingredients should be in the sauce pan. Bring it to a boil and simmer for 5 to 7 mins.

Finish the sauce with lime juice and cilantro. 

Pour some sauce into a dipping bowl for serving and reserve the remaining sauce for grilling the lobster tails.

Cut the lobster tails lengthwise. It can be easily done with the meat cutting scissors and use the knife to cut through the other side... BAM! 

Heat the grill and pour some jerk sauce with some butter ( optional). Since we used more oil in the sauce, I would recommend no butter. 

Place the lobster tails with flesh side down. Cook for 5 mins over medium heat and turn it and cook the other side or until the flesh comes out of the lobster tail. Don't forget to brush the sauce on to the lobster as it tastes good because of caramelization.

Serve the lobster with rice. Hope you liked this recipe. I will share another interesting recipe in my next post. Have a wonderful day!.. For more appetizing recipes, kindly check my channel - Sindhuja Prem