Easy Garlic Butter Lobster Skillet

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This Easy garlic butter lobster skillet recipe is bursting with flavor and great over pasta, rice, vegetables – or just straight out of the pan!

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Easy Garlic Butter Lobster Skillet

These garlic butter lobster skillets are a decadent, indulgent dinner that is incredibly romantic – and SO easy!

This lobster skillet meal tastes just like lobster rolls – without the bread.

This is basically a recipe for pan fried lobster meat in a garlic butter cream sauce that is perfect for either pasta or rice – or served as-is in it’s buttery goodness.

If you love lobster, but can’t afford fresh lobster meat and want a way to make pre-cooked lobster meat fabulous, this is the recipe for you.

It is rich, indulgent, and to die for delicious – you will find yourself ready to lick the pan!

Check out my web story about this lobster skillet!

(For real – be sure to have a crusty bread or some vegetables to soak up all that delicious garlic butter lobster flavor!)

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What Lobster Meat To Use In Lobster Skillet

These lobster skillets are so easy because you can truly use any kind of lobster meat – I often use frozen pre-cooked picked lobster meat – which is the most economic choice for lobster meat.

While pre-cooked and frozen lobster meat isn’t the most luxurious choice (fresh is always best, obviously) – I live in Colorado in a rural area where finding fresh lobster that isn’t ridiculously expensive is pretty rare – so I have adapted this recipe to truly be knockout delicious no matter your budget or access to fresh fish.

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What to Serve With Garlic Butter Lobster Skillet

This lobster skillet is the perfect easy dish for a romantic dinner – and pairs perfectly with lots of low carb sides like broccolini or lemon garlic scallops (as well as carb-loaded picks like fresh bread and a knockout rice pilaf), but

I’m listing my favorite dishes to pair with this garlic butter lobster skillet below:

This lobster skillet is also AMAZING poured over linguine – take 1/2 cup of starchy pasta water and add it to the skillet and cook to emulsify, then add freshly boiled and drained (do not rinse fresh pasta) to the skillet and toss with lobster meat.

Top with fresh parmesan, freshly diced green onions, cilantro, or parsley!

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Other Delicious Lobster Recipes You’ll Love

If you love this easy delicious garlic butter lobster skillet, please check out my other fabulously easy and delicious lobster recipes!

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You can find my complete guide to lobster recipes here.

If you’re looking for a few other super easy, crazy impressive seafood recipes to wow your Valentine with, be sure to check out my Salmon Milanese, Bacon Wrapped Scallops, and my bang bang shrimp!

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4.51 from 274 votes

Garlic Butter Lobster Skillet

By: Courtney ODell
Servings: 4 people
Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 10 minutes
Total: 15 minutes
A skillet full of lobster in a buttery red sauce.
This lobster skillet is delicious and can be made with fresh raw lobster, frozen, and even precooked lobster.

Ingredients 

  • 1 lb lobster meat, can be uncooked or cooked
  • 1 teaspoons celtic sea salt
  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided in half
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 large shallot, about 4 tbsp, minced
  • 1 teaspoon lemon zest
  • ยผ cup dry white wine
  • 1 tablespoon fresh tarragon, chopped

Instructions 

  • In a large pan, melt 6 tbsp butter on medium heat.
  • Add in garlic and shallots, stirring occasionally, until fragrant and soft – about 4 minutes.
  • Stir in wine and increase heat to high.
  • Stir in lobster meat and top with lemon zest, and tarragon.
  • Cook to piping hot and sauce is reduced, about 5 minutes. If you are using raw lobster it will cook in this time. Season with sea salt and enjoy!

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 340kcalCarbohydrates: 7gProtein: 31gFat: 20gSaturated Fat: 11gPolyunsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 148mgSodium: 791mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

Course: Seafood
Cuisine: American
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About Courtney

Courtney loves to share great wine, good food, and loves to explore far flung places- all while masting an everyday elegant and easy style at lifestyle blog Sweet Cโ€™s Designs. Sweet C's devoted to finding the best food and drinks you'll want to make or find, around the world!

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  1. Nick Evans says:

    You say the diish need sea salt. But you never say when to add it.

    1. Katherine says:

      You add it at the end, I updated the recipe card, thanks!