Lobster can reach a length of fifty centimeters and weigh nearly four kilograms. In history, a case of catching a lobster 70 centimeters long and weighing 11 kg was recorded! However, the average value of this delicacy reaches 20-30 centimeters and weighs about 800 grams.
Lobsters, they also lobsters live in the rocky bottom of the Northern and Mediterranean seas at a depth of almost 20 meters. They eat shellfish, crustaceans sometimes carrion. The shell of the sea crayfish is strong and protects its master from enemy attacks. When the lobster changes its shell, it is vulnerable. It will not take less than a month until his new home gets stronger and becomes firm enough.
The main catch of lobsters is in Norway. The industrial scale of lobster fishing jeopardizes their existence. Not a small role is played by the pollution of the world's oceans. Crustaceans are fastidious to the environment of existence. In dirty water, they just die. A restriction is introduced: it is possible to catch individuals over 25 centimeters long at a strictly defined time. Such conditions significantly increased the cost of sea delicacy.
Lobsters are trying to breed on farms. However, because of the slow growth of individuals, nearly 30 years must pass before he enters the period of puberty and readiness for reproduction.
Lobster meat is a real sea delicacy. It contains two times less calories than chicken meat. Lobster cooks wonderful dishes. For example, the traditional Peruvian dish is sevice. It is a cold snack from seafood, marinated in lime juice.
To cook Caribbean soup, lobster meat is boiled in chicken broth, add sweet pepper and Worcester sauce. Of these ingredients, a specific soup-puree is obtained.
In Italy, they adore pasta. But even there they cook lobsters. Fetuccini (a kind of pasta) is prepared from seafood and smoked sausage. Such an unusual combination strikes the imagination of the first person who tries it for the first time. In Jamaica, soups are prepared from lobster, mussels and other marine delicacies.
In France, donuts with seafood are very popular. In the north of France from the lobster boiled inimitable soup. In Japan, sushi is cooked from a lobster. Or cook separately in a special frying pan wok with ginger and spices. Spain is famous for its paella with a lobster, in Italy lobster is added to the laznja.
Omar, who is also a lobster, enters the national cuisine of many countries. However, it can be simply boiled, served in a shell.
Before you try the meat of sea delicacy, you will need some effort to open its shell. According to the rules, first cliches are cut off, then the shell is uncovered, meat is extracted, lemon juice or lime juice is poured.
In restaurants, lobster is served with white wine, which perfectly emphasizes the taste of sea delicacy.
If you decide to buy a fresh lobster, use our tips. Lobster should be alive, if you pull it, then he will start moving. The color of the sea delicacy can be blue-green or spotty. The shell must be firm. This indicates the presence of meat inside.
Welded lobsters smell delicious and have a characteristic red tint. The tail must be strongly twisted. If it is straight, it means that the lobster was cooked when he was already dead.
Cooking a lobster at home is easy. It is enough to pour water into the pan, bring to a boil, salt and lower first the head, and then the whole body into the water. Lobsters are boiled for 15-20 minutes.