Grilled lobster tacos with lobster tails that are basted in a butter and garlic. Drizzled with a spicy serrano pepper sauce to crank up the heat and add a level of flavor to up your taco game.
Lobster tacos are few and far between, otherwise I’d need to take up another job. But when I make a batch of grilled lobster. It’s gotta go into a taco and go out in style!
They’re highly addicting, so you better sell off your baseball cards to fund your new lobster habit!
The trickiest thing I’ve come across is making a butter based sauce for any dish is. Keeping it from hardening back up in the fridge while its marinading.
Here’s a trick I’ve discovered – oil.
Now you can clarify your butter, and it will definitely help as the water content burns off, but once introduced to cold, it will begin to solidify again.
What I like to do is add about 2 tbsp of avocado oil to a stick of butter and melt it down on medium low while the garlic is in the pan.
Sometimes I’ll add some herbs as well – And this is my go to butter sauce for seafood. It’s simple but effective.
Now I’m no chemist, and can’t find anything from a quick google search to explains why exactly this works, without writing up a whole other article. So I’ll just say this. SCIENCE.
But whether its grilled lobster tacos, or shrimp skewers, this butter sauce goes on pretty much any seafood dish.
Unless you’re blessed enough to live where lobster isn’t ridiculously priced, or live where you can drop a few baskets off the pier and harvest your own, lobster can be pricey.
Sometimes you can get a decent deal at Wild Fork. Here’s what I normally look out for:
Frozen lobster tails: Sometimes you can get a good deal on 4-6oz tails
pre-packaged lobster meat: this will contain claws and tails. It’s a little pricier up front, but the per ounce cost is a much better deal.
langostino lobster: This is not technically lobster, but its close and will get you there if you’re in a pinch or see them on sale
colossal shrimp: Another non-lobster option, but the texture and flavor is spot on. The cost is probably close to the same per pound, but there’s a lot of other dishes that can be made. Check out this recipe to see what I’m talking about
For grilled lobster tacos, I tend to give with the larger pieces of meat, so if you’re getting prepackages you may want to find tails only, or you can always use a rack, to prevent that amazing lobster meat from falling through the grates.
The key to whatever you get is frozen. When it comes to lobster do not risk “fresh”. If its not live or precooked, lobster goes bad much quicker than other shellfish, and you’re best to ask for it frozen.
If you’re at a store that sells live lobster, keep it live or humanely dispatch it by placing it in the freezer and keep it frozen until ready to cook.
This sauce is inspired by the green aji style sauce I make for pollo saltado. It’s a Peruvian style sauce that is so good! It contains:
I know what you’re thinking.. LETTUCE? yep. it definitely sounds weird but hear me out.
As long as you’re pulverizing this, it’s ads a smooth luscious texture to the sauce, but by all means can be opted out and isn’t going to affect flavor at all.
I’ve come to realize I make a crap-ton of taco recipes. I probably should make it a category.
It’s not just grilled lobster tacos that I adore, but all tacos. I’m a tacos enthusiast. An equal opportunity taco man. tacos are yeet litty fire. I could figuratively eat tacos everyday – no cap.
I like tacos. That’s I’m trying to say.