Stuffed Lobster Tails
Nova Scotia lobster is world-famous—and for good reason! A meal that is easy to make and local? That’s a thumbs up from us! Treat your taste buds to this Stuffed Lobster Tail recipe from The Quarterdeck.
Ingredients
Serves: 3
| 3 5-6 oz | Lobster tails |
| 4 oz. | Scallops |
| 4 oz | Shrimp |
| 4 oz | Lobster claw meat |
| ¼ cup | Mozzarella cheese |
| ¼ cup | Garlic butter |
| ¼ cup | Unsalted butter |
| ½ clove | Garlic |
| 3 g | Parsley, chopped |
| 3 g | Chives, chopped |
| Optional | Breadcrumbs |
Directions
Garlic Butter
- Allow butter to become room temperature or melt, then add minced garlic.
- Fine chop parsley and chives, then mix all in a bowl.
Stuffed Lobster Tails
- Chop the scallops in quarters, chop shrimp in thirds and chop lobster claw meat in fourths. Place in a bowl.
- Add mozzarella and garlic butter. Mix until ingredients began to form a ball.
- Slice down the tail of the lobster, and open the shell, peeling back the lobster meat.
- Form the seafood mixture into a 4 oz. oval and place it into the cracked lobster tail.
- Sprinkle breadcrumbs on to the tail before baking at 350F for 11 minutes.
Local Source Guide:
Produce: Noggins Corner Farm Market, Stirling Fruit Farms Ltd., Masstown Market or one of the many other Farmers’ Markets of Nova Scotia.
Cheese: Fox Hill Cheese House, Knoydart Farm, Masstown Creamery.
Lobster: Evan’s Seafood & Restaurant, Clearwater Seafoods Ltd., Masstown Market’s ‘Catch of the Day’, Halls Harbour Lobster Pound, or Fisherman’s Market.
Scallops: Comeau Sea Foods, Evan’s Seafood & Restaurant, Clearwater Seafoods Ltd., Masstown Market’s ‘Catch of the Day’, Afishionado Fishmongers, or Fisherman’s Market.
Shrimp: Clearwater Seafoods Ltd., Masstown Market’s ‘Catch of the Day’, Afishionado Fishmongers, or Fisherman’s Market.
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Recipe provided by: The Quarterdeck Resort
Photography provided by: Jessica Emin, @eatwithjessie.
This recipe is featured in our 2021 Taste of Nova Scotia Culinary Guide.