Dublin Lawyer

Dublin lawyer is the rich Irish seafood dish utilising fresh lobster, cream, whiskey and sometimes mushrooms.

It dates back many hundreds of years to a time when lobster was more plentiful and less expensive than it is today.

The dish can be made with fresh or pre cooked lobster meat. I have made successful facsimiles of this dish using prawns and crayfish tails.

Ingredients

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• ½ teaspoon paprika powder.
• ½ teaspoon mustard powder.
• 3 tablespoons butter.
• 6 button mushrooms, sliced thinly.
• 4 spring onions, sliced on the diagonal.
• About 450 g (1 lb) of fresh or cooked lobster cut into chunks.
• 4 tablespoons Irish whiskey.
• 150 ml double cream.
• Squeeze of lemon juice.
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Method

1. Mix the butter, paprika and mustard powder together.
2. Heat the butter in a large frying pan.
3. Sauté the mushrooms for a few minutes until they take a little colour.
4. Add the lobster and spring onions and sauté until the lobster is cooked. This should only take a few minutes.
5. Add the whiskey - if you want to set fire to it, warm it a little first. Cook for a few minutes more.
6. Add the cream heat through, season to taste with salt and pepper.

Serving suggestions

Serve over plain boiled rice, or a mixture of plain boiled rice and wild rice.

Serve in the halved lobster shell if you have it.

See also

Interesting lobster recipes

• All about the lobster
• Lobster roll - a kind of sandwich filled with lobster meat
• Lobster thermidor - lobster cooked with a rich creamy seafood sauce, topped with parmesan cheese
• Lobster Newberg - the story of how Lobster a la Wenberg became Lobster a la Newberg
• Bill Granger's Lobster with Preserved Lemon - Australian chef and restaurateur, Bill Granger shows us an unusual way to prepare lobster tails with preserved lemons
• Spicy prawn ravioli in lobster bisque - a pasta dish with lobster meat
• Lobster and coconut soup with ginger - a Delia Smith cheat to turn a great soup into a brilliant one
• Peppers stuffed with lobster cream (TM) - small sweet peppers filled with a creamy seafood sauce, created with Thermomix
• Lobster bisque - make the classic lobster soup at home
• Prawn thermidor - an economical way to assimilate the classic lobster dish
• Thermidor sauce - make the classic thermidor sauce to use with pasta, vegetables or even as a dip
• Dublin lawyer - a rich Irish seafood dish utilising fresh lobster, cream, whiskey and sometimes mushrooms
• Salmon and prawn tagliatelle - a seafood dish using lobster bisque
• Fish chunks in lobster sauce with fresh pasta - another seafood dish using lobster bisque

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