Maine Lobster with Cream Sauce

This great lobster recipe is topped with a delicious pea cream sauce. Made with bacon, onions, garlic, and mushrooms, the cream sauce is a wonderful alternative to your usual butter sauce. A staple to Maine, try it in your home.

Ingredients

4 Maine Lobsters -- 1 1/4 lbs each
1 Tbsp butter
1/4 cup bacon
1/2 cup onions
1/2 cup leeks
1 Tbsp celery
2 cups shelled peas
1 cup chicken stock
1/2 cup cream
Salt & white pepper
2 cups black trumpettes mushrooms or other mushrooms

Instructions

Heat the butter in a pan and saute the bacon, add onions, celery, leeks and saute until an aroma develops. Add the peas, chicken stock, and simmer for 30 minutes. Season to taste. Strain through a fine mesh, blend the puree. To cook lobster: Cook lobsters in salted boiling water for 7-8 minutes. Remove from water, cool down (the lobbies, not you); Remove heads, peel tails and break claws to remove meat. Slice each tail into two lengthwise pieces; set aside. Heat up saute pan with 1 Tbsp butter, saute the mushrooms quickly for 5 minutes. Season, set aside. Preheat four dinner plates. Pour equal amounts of sauce on each plate. Place the lobster nicely on the sauce, place the black trumpettes around the lobster pieces.