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Lobster Bolognese with Brown Butter Truffle Sauce
Enjoy something delicious and satisfying with this easy-to-make recipe.
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
55 mins
Servings: 6 servings
Course:
Main Course
Cuisine:
International
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ pounds live Maine lobsters x 3
- 6 opal basil leaves
- 6 sweet basil leaves
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 8 ounces fresh linguine pasta
Bolognese Sauce:
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 pounds vine ripened tomatoes
- 1/2 chardonnay
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 1/2 cup veal jus
- sea salt
- fresh ground black pepper
Truffle Froth:
- 1 cup Mushroom stock
- 2 cups truffle juice
- 1/4 cup cream
- 2 ounces unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon black truffle oil
Instructions
Bolognese Sauce:
- Combine the onions, garlic and butter in a pot; sweat the onions on medium heat, season lightly with sea salt.
- Cook the onions until they are soft and translucent.
- Add the tomatoes and heat through, season lightly with sea salt, once the tomatoes are hot add the chardonnay and bring to a boil.
- Add the three stocks and boil, reduce heat to low.
- Cook on low, stirring often being careful not to let burn on the bottom until all the liquid has evaporated and the sauce is thick.
- Pass the sauce through a food mill into a bowl over a bowl of ice. Mix to cool.
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Truffle Froth:
- In a tall pot with high sides reduce the mushroom stock by half on medium heat.
- Add the truffle juice and reduce by 1/4.
- Add the cream and bring to a boil.
- Remove from the heat and add the butter, truffle oil while blending with a hand blender until very bubbly.
- Season to taste with sea salt, white pepper and a few drops of fresh squeezed lemon juice.
- Keep warm in the pot.
To Serve:
- Heat 6 dinner plates in a warm oven.
- Bring a pot of water to a boil, adding about 1 tablespoons of salt per quart of water.
- Divide the tomato sauce into two pans (it’s easier to mix and plate in two pans.
- Gently heat the sauce adding 1 tablespoon of butter to each pan mixing to emulsify.
- Add the lobster and heat until just hot, but not overdone.
- Cook the pasta for 1 ½ minutes in the boiling water and divide it into the 2 lobster Bolognese pots.
- Add the chopped basil and extra virgin olive oil add a few tablespoons of the pasta cooking water to each pan.
- Season to taste, spin the pasta around a meat fork and lay it down in the center of the heated plates, spoon the lobster Bolognese in a line over the paste.
- Blend the truffle sauce with a hand blender until frothy. Spoon the froth over the pasta and serve.