2 Appetizer Lobster Salad Recipes

Lobster is a great ingredient to use in a quick appetizers recipes if you want to impress your guests and you can use the tails, the meat, or even the whole animal if you want to make a special centerpiece. The following pair of recipes shows you how versatile this creature is and what kind of exciting appetizers you can make with this wonderful seafood.

Lobster Tails With A Warm Honey Citrus Dressing

  

This recipe serves six people and it combines chilled seafood with a warm honey and orange dressing. You can use white wine vinegar instead of champagne vinegar if you prefer. You can use a different type of salad greens if you do not like romaine or if you have something else, you want to use up.
There are not many ingredients in this recipe but the end flavor is very good. Quite often, when working with delicately flavored ingredients such as seafood, it is best to keep the ingredients list short and keep the flavors simple. This minimizes the risk of overpowering the flavor of the shellfish, which has an amazing taste of its own.
What You Need:

• 4 thawed lobster tails
• Romaine lettuce
• 1 tablespoon melted butter
• 4 sliced radishes
• 2 tablespoons champagne vinegar
• 1/3 cup orange juice concentrate
• 1/4 cup honey
• Salt and pepper

How To Make It:
Split the tails lengthways and rinse them. Put them on an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet, meat side facing up. Brush melted butter over each one and sprinkle some salt and pepper on them. Broil for about five minutes, four inches from the heat, or until they curl up. Let them cool and cover them. Chill for a couple of hours.
Mix the orange juice concentrate with the vinegar and honey. Simmer the mixture in a pan for five minutes, and then add a little salt and pepper. Arrange the lobster tails on the romaine lettuce and decorate with sliced radish. Drizzle the dressing near the lobster.

Baked Seafood Salad

  

This hot dish will definitely warm you up. You can serve small portions as an appetizer or bigger ones as an entree. The combination of lobster, shrimp, vegetables, paprika and more is great and this makes a wonderful appetizer. This recipe makes enough to serve six people.
What You Need:

• 1 cup cooked shrimp
• 1 cup cooked lobster meat
• 2 cups crushed corn flakes
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
• 2 tablespoons melted butter
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon paprika

How To Make It:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Mix the melted butter and cornflakes. Chop the lobster into small pieces and mix it with the shrimp, onion, green bell pepper, mayonnaise, celery, Worcestershire sauce, and salt.
Spread the seafood mixture over a baking pan and top with the cornflake mixture. Sprinkle some paprika on top and bake for half an hour. Serve this dish hot with a warm bread roll on the side.