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Baked Stuffed Lobster

Watch how easy it is to cook and serve up some butter sweet Lobster, stuffed with Shrimp, Crab, and Sea Scallops. Get your BBQ Shoes on!

For this Baked Stuffed Lobster you need the following ingredients

  • Cold Water Lobster – 2 3 or 4 lbs. each
  • Sea Scallops – 7 10-15 count size - quartered
  • Shrimp – ¼ lb. shelled and deveined – cut up into pieces
  • Crab meat – ¼ lb.
  • Garlic – 2 cloves minced
  • Onion – 1 medium finely diced
  • Lemon Juice – 2 Tbsp.
  • Parsley – finely chopped
  • Salt – to taste
  • Black Pepper – to taste
  • Unsalted Butter – 10 Tbsp
  • Ritz Crackers – 15 to 2
  • Black Iron skillet
  • Backing sheet

Method

Set up your grill for baking. Place hot coals on 2 sides of the grill leaving the center with no coals.
MAKING THE STUFFING
Place the black iron skillet in the middle of the grill and add 10 Tbsp of butter to melt. Add the diced Onions and the Minced Garlic to the skillet and cook until translucent not brown. Add the the scallops and the shrimp to the pan. You are just warming these up not cooking them. Add the crabmeat, parsley and lemon juice to the pan. Crumble the Ritz crackers into the pan. Do not get the crumble to small leave them on the large size. Mix the remove skillet from the grill.
THE LOBSTER
Kill the lobster by putting your knife through the brain and slicing forward. Split the lobster down the center. Remove the brains, intestines, roe and liver from the body cavity. Place the lobster halves on a baking sheet, cavity facing up. Fill the body cavity with the stuffing, firmly packing it in. Add 2 Tbsp of melted butter to each half over the stuffing.
COOKING
Place the cooking sheet in the center of the grill. Cover grill with the lid. Cook time will be 20 to 30 minutes depending on your grill temp.
FINALIZING
Place the stuffed lobster on a platter. Add a bowl of melted butter for dipping.
SERVING