Crayfish or Lobster Salad - Real Recipes from Mums

This lobster salad is a lovely refreshing meal or side salad for Spring or Summer!

Ingredients (serves 6 | makes 6 individual salads (as pictured))

6 crayfish/lobster
100 mls lime juice
150 grams butter (cubed)
1.5 teaspoons chopped chives

Method

Cut down underside of tail to remove lobster meat from shell. You can either cut it in half ,and leave whole, or slice into medallions.
Place lime juice in small saucepan and bring slowly to the boil over low heat.
Using a wire whisk add butter cube by cube until all are melted.
Add chives and combine well.
Taste and season with salt and pepper.
Arrange salad ingredients of choice on plate and add lobster.
Drizzle with lime butter and serve immediately.

Notes

This is a quick and easy recipe that tastes so great the whole family will love it! I've even served it at dinner parties and it's always a hit! You can slice the lobster into medallions for a more sophisticated look!

72 Comments

- - mom93821 said
  - 28 Sep 2019
    9:42 am
A lobster dish that is perfect for date night.

- - mom101628 said
  - 26 Mar 2017
    10:32 pm
This assumes you have bought a cooked crayfish/lobster. Try starting from scratch and the crayfish/lobster will be so much better if you cook it yourself.

- - mom112217 said
  - 26 Mar 2017
    10:20 am
My mouth is watering looking at this delicious meal!

- - mom175475 said
  - 28 Jan 2017
    8:17 am
This is a delicious salad Thank you

- - youngoldlady said
  - 12 Dec 2016
    9:13 pm
Wow this looks so yummy.

- - mom111059 said
  - 04 Oct 2016
    5:46 pm
Wow this looks a bit special. Thanks for the recipe

- - Melissa89 said
  - 30 Jul 2016
    4:41 pm
This looks ridiculously good

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 25 Jan 2016
    5:07 pm
Now that is more to my liking as opposed to mussels.

- - paulah2 said
  - 18 Dec 2015
    3:18 pm
Since moving from SA to WA, the main thing I miss is the Southern Rock Lobsters (oh, and fruchocs hehehe)

- - mom160421 said
  - 08 Nov 2015
    12:31 pm
Looks delicious – can you substitute other kinds of fish for the lobster?

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 16 Oct 2015
    9:28 pm
Crayfish and lobster are one in the same so I have been told! lol!!! This is a lovely dish nevertheless!

- - mom113055 said
  - 05 Oct 2015
    11:23 pm
lobster salas kool

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 01 Oct 2015
    8:16 pm
I adore crayfish or lobster!

- - mom81879 said
  - 28 Sep 2015
    6:28 pm
Kids will love this, they love seafood, will have to cook something else for mum and dad to eat tho

- - Chi said
  - 30 Jul 2015
    5:10 pm
Looks easy to do! Hoping to try this one of these days.

- - Kasey said
  - 29 Jul 2015
    10:28 am
Fantastic salad I love it!

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 24 Jun 2015
    6:29 pm
Mmmm, cannot afford lobster or cray – but will substitute prawns in this salad – thanks for sharing

- - EllenG89 said
  - 21 Jun 2015
    7:22 am
simple, healthy and delicious meal

- - am1979amanda said
  - 18 Jun 2015
    11:10 pm
Will try thanks heaps great recipe

- - mom56842 said
  - 31 May 2015
    11:40 pm
Just adore Lobster, don’t have it as much as I’d like.
- mom93821 replied
  
  29 Sep 2019 , 6:33 am
  Lobster is such a delightful treat and we like it for special events.