Can you cook a lobster in boiling chicken broth instead of water?

Question

or season the water instead, perhaps with cajon spices?

Answer 1

Of course you can, but I think you will have a lobster that tastes like chicken.

Answer 2

You can cook a lobster in Chicken broth but there won't be much improvement in the flavor of your lobster. It's like "gilding the lilly" - you can do it but it's really unnecessary. Lobster has all the flavor it needs and lightly salted boiling water will do just fine.

Don't throw away the water in which you have cooked the lobster, use it as the base for chowder and bisque. The flavor is too good to waste.

Answer 3

Lobster is expensive for a reason... sublties of it's taste. Chicken broth will kill that. Adding cajun spice or Old bay would seem right as you do this with shrimp or crabs but not with lobster. How you enhance lobster is with a cream sauce or whatnot allowing the taste of lobster to still shine though.

Answer 4

I'm not sure if I would do the chicken broth. You know they tell you not to cross contaminate vegetables and meat or chicken juice on beef, etc. because their bacteria's are different. Seafood and poultry? Not sure, you definately could season the water with spices though.

Answer 5

of course. those other options; however, may have an adverse effect on the flavor.....lobster is too expensive to mess around with!

i love mine broiled or grill......with no seasoning.....served PLAIN. or with a side of real butter and a lemon wedge on occasion.

Answer 6

Gimme just plain ol melted garlic butter....
I can live on lobster !

Answer 7

I don't see why not. If you boil it in cajun spices, it'll have a cajun spicy flavor.

Answer 8

yes