Sweet Cream Butter Broiled Florida Spiny Lobster Tails

Recipe courtesy of Florida Agriculture Bureau of Seafood and Aquaculture.

Recipe Ingredients:

4 (6 to 9-ounce) spiny lobster tails, split open in the shell
1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Lemon

Cooking Directions:

1. Preheat oven broiler on medium high.
2. Place all four of the lobsters on a cookie sheet, and make sure they are opened up down the middle.
3. Evenly spread the softened butter over each of the lobster tails meat. Lightly season each lobster tail with salt and pepper.
4. Place lobsters in the oven on the middle rack under the broiler. Let lobster cook under the broiler for about 7 minutes or until just barely cooked throughout. Remove lobsters from oven and let cool slightly.
5. Serve lobster tails warm with fresh lemon.

Makes 4 servings.

Recipe and photograph courtesy of Florida Agriculture Bureau of Seafood and Aquaculture.