Lobster with lemon & herb butter sauce

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Ingredients

1 cooked lobster (see tip below for video guide on how to prepare lobster), claws and tail meat kept separate from the smaller bits of meat

crusty bread , to serve

juice ½ lemon

100g cold butter , cut into cubes

small bunch chives , finely snipped

small handful basil leaves , chopped

110g bag of rocket

½ an avocado , stoned, peeled and sliced

leftover bits of lobster meat

juice ½ lemon

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Method

To make the sauce, warm the lemon juice in a small saucepan. Add the butter, a few cubes at a time, swirling them into the lemon juice over a very low heat to melt them, adding a few more pieces until all the butter is used. Take the sauce off the heat, season to taste and keep warm.

To make the salad, gently toss the rocket, avocado and lobster meat together. Dress with the lemon juice and olive oil, and toss again until everything is mixed and coated.

To serve, stir the herbs through the sauce and pour into a ramekin or small bowl. Put the sauce on a plate and pile the large chunks of lobster meat on one side and the salad on the other. Bring the plate to the table to share – dip the tail meat, claws and crusty bread into the sauce.