Maine Lobster Salad Over Heirloom Tomato Mousse
Ingredients
- 2/1.5 Maine lobster
- 2 lb. heirloom tomato
- 2 tsp of tomato paste
- 1 tsp chops basil
- 6 oz. cream
- Salt and Pepper
- 6 tsp tomato coulis
- 1 tsp ketchup
- fresh thyme
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 garlic clove
- 5 gelatin sheets
Directions
- Tomato Mousse: Dice the tomato and cook them on medium heat with the tomato paste, thyme, ketchup, basil, sugar and garlic and let cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour steering with a wood spatula. Emerge the gelatin sheet in ice water.Tomato Mousse: Dice the tomato and cook them on medium heat with the tomato paste, thyme, ketchup, basil, sugar and garlic and let cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour steering with a wood spatula. Emerge the gelatin sheet in ice water.
- After the tomato mixture has cool down, pass it thru a chinois and return it to the heat and mix in the gelatin then let cool down at room temperature.After the tomato mixture has cool down, pass it thru a chinois and return it to the heat and mix in the gelatin then let cool down at room temperature.
- Whip the cream and mix it to the tomato mixture, place in the refrigerator for 4 to 6 hours.
- Lobster: In a big sauce pan filled up with 3⁄4 of water boiling, cook the lobster for 3 minutes. Then set aside without putting them in refrigerator. When cool down crack the shell and remove the claw and the body then keep refrigerated.
- Presentation: In a center of a plate poor 2 tsp of tomato coulis and the tomato mousse on a star design using 2 spoons. Slice the lobster and arrange it on top of the tomato mousse, lightly brush the lobster with walnut oil.



