This Easy garlic butter lobster skillet recipe is bursting with flavor and great over pasta, rice, vegetables - or just straight out of the pan!
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!
(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.
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:
What to serve with garlic butter lobster skillet
10 Minute Broccolini
This easy 10 minute broccolini recipe is pan-fried and bursting with flavor - this is the best way to make delicious pan fried baby broccoli, ever! Never bitter and full of rich, buttery flavor.
The Best Ever Cauliflower Rice
The Best Ever Cauliflower Rice - delicious easy low carb rice that tastes buttery and rich with very few calories!
Easy Keto Naan Recipe
Easy Keto Naan - oven baked keto naan flatbread with a garlic and butter sauce that is out of this world delicious, without all the carbs!
The Best Pan Seared Scallops with Garlic and Lemon Recipe
The Best Pan Seared Scallops with Garlic and Lemon Recipe is the secret to perfect pan seared scallops in a lemon garlic butter sauce, bursting with lemon and garlic butter flavor for a fancy seafood restaurant quality scallop dinner in under 15 minutes - from fridge to plate! Scallops are a great low calorie and low fat choice that are packed with protein for dinner, inspired by the gorgeous Gulf of Mexico seafood from Sanibel Florida.
No Knead Rosemary Bread
Rosemary No Knead Bread is a simple, foolproof way to make bakery style bread at home in a dutch oven without any bread making experience or special equipment - no kneading required!
Tuscan Shrimp Linguine
Delicious easy one pot tuscan shrimp linguine is full of flavor - great for dinner parties and perfect for beginning cooks!
Easy Baked Salmon Milanese
Easy Baked Salmon Milanese Recipe - delicious baked salmon with a lemon dill butter flavor oven baked in a foil pouch for an easy healthy baked salmon dinner everyone loves!
This lobster skillet is also AMAZING poured over linguine - take ½ 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!
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!
Click each link to get the easy printable recipe below:
- Broiled Lobster Tails - keto compatible
- Garlic Butter Broiled Lobster Tails - keto compatible
- Lobster Mac and Cheese
- Garlic Butter Naked Lobster Rolls
- Butter Poached Lobster Tails - keto compatible
- Easy Lobster Pasta Recipe
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!
Garlic Butter Lobster Skillet Recipe
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Garlic Butter Lobster Skillet Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 lb lobster meat
- 2 teaspoons celtic sea salt
- 6 tablespoons butter, divided in half
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 large shallot, minced
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- ¼ 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, lemon zest, and tarragon.
- Cook to piping hot and sauce is reduced, about 5 minutes.
Nutrition Information
Yield
4Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 342Total Fat 20gSaturated Fat 11gTrans Fat 1gUnsaturated Fat 6gCholesterol 148mgSodium 5156mgCarbohydrates 7gFiber 1gSugar 1gProtein 31g
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Ron R
Can I replace tarragon with fresh basil or oregano?
Courtney ODell
yes!
Jul
Can I do this recipe with crab meat if that all I have on hand?
Courtney ODell
Definitely! It's very delicious with crab, too!
Rebecca Larkin
Tried this tonight and everyone loved it. Paired with a spinach strawberry salad with a homemade dressing. Everyone cleaned their plates.
Trish
I love the recipes for broiled lobster tails,rolls, and Skillet Lobster.
Ellen
What do you do with the 3 tablespoons of salt listed in the ingredients?
Ingrid
Agreed! We used half the amount called for since we actually doubled the recipe so just added the salt in. The dish was wonderful but too sharply salty. Maybe just use it as a finishing salt or decrease the mixed in amount?
Maureen
I agree with you! I just made this & only added a pinch of salt & was way too salty. I will try this again without the added salt
Cheryl S
Thank you!! lobster at home is so easy and way better than eating out!
Julie Blanner
This looks amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Aimee Shugarman
OMG this skillet is delicious!!!!
Kim
You know... I've never even considered making lobster at home! I'm gonna have to change that!