Busters Recipes

Lobster Soup (Serves 4)

Ingredients

3 lb. of lobster meat
3 teaspoon annato seedoil
1 cup of onion(chopped)
3/4 cup green bell pepper (chopped)
2 garlic cloves(chopped)
1/2 cup of celery (chopped)
1/2 cup of carrot(slice thin)
1 cup of calabaza
1 cups of wine (white dry)
4 tomatoes (medium - peeled, seeded, and
chopped)
2 cups uncooked white rice
3 cups of stock (lobster, fish or chicken)
made from lobster shell
1/4 cup of small pimiento stuffed olives
1/2 teaspoonground black pepper
1 teaspoon of ground dry oregano
1 tablespoon of capers
2 teaspoon of paprika
2 teapoon cumin
1 pinch saffron
2 bay leaves
3 leaves of culandro
salt to taste
3 sprigs green scallion slices

Procedure

If you have Sofrito just add it to the kettle
bring to heat and add the celery, carrots,
tomatoes, calabaza, wine, stock, etc.

To start from scratch you add the annato seed oil
to the soup kettle, bring to heat, saute' onion
and green bell pepper until soft, then add the
garlic, celery, carrots, calabaza, tomatoes, white
wine, fish or lobster stock, add the 2 cups of
rice. Also add the bay leaves, paprika, caper,
olives, cumin, salt, pepper, pinch of saffron,
cilantro, & oregano.

Add the lobster meat. Cover & let simmer, cook
about 35 minutes.

Serve in deep bowls. Sprinkle scallion and
cilantro for garnish.

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