Rock lobster salad with freekeh, jar jeir leaves & fennel, preserved lemon dressing

Salad Ingredients

• 1 poached whole lobster - 700-800 gm (8 minutes from boil, removed tail and leg meat, shells kept for garnish. Wash and trim 
• 1 bunch of domestic rocket
• 1 bunch watercress
• 1 fennel bulb, finely slice on a mandolins 
• 1 Avocado, diced
• 2 heirloom tomatoes, seeded, diced 1cm 
• 2 shallots finely diced 
• 1 garlic clove crushed with a tsp sea salt

Freekeh Ingredients

• 50 ml olive oil
• 1 leek, white part, coarsely diced
• Spring onions cut into 2 cm pieces 
• 1 garlic clove, finely diced
• 1 tsp. allspice
• 200 g whole freekeh (smoky green wheat)
• Up to 1250 ml chicken stock
• Sea salt and pepper
• Juice ½ lemon
• Extra-virgin olive oil

Directions

Rinse the Freekeh and soak in plenty of cold water for half an hour. Heat the oil in a large heavy-based frying pan. Add the leeks, spin onions garlic, and allspice, and sauté for a few minutes, stirring well to coat everything in the oil. Add the drained freekeh, and 500 ml of the stock, season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 40 min. Stir once to make sure it doesn’t catch and burn. Add extra stock, if necessary. By the end of the cooking time, most of the liquid should have evaporated then stir through the lemon juice and Olive oil.

Preserved Lemon Dressing

• 1 preserved lemon, rinsed, flesh removed and finely diced
• Juice 1 lemon
• Sea salt & crushed black pepper
• 1 large tbp Dijon mustard
• 120 ml Extra virgin olive oil
• 100 ml water

Directions

In a large bowl whisk lemon juice, water, mustard, preserved lemon, seasoning and ½ the Extra virgin olive oil.

To Assemble

Dress freekeh with preserved lemon dressing and season with salt and pepper add picked watercress, domestic rocket, shaved fennel, diced tomatoes, lobster leg meat, shallots and garlic Place on the bottom of a shallow bowl. Cut the lobster tail into bite-size pieces. Dress lobster meat with preserved lemon dressing and season. Place lobster meat around the freekeh. Garnish with lobster tail shell

SUBSCRIBE

If you love what we do, subscribe to our newsletter to discover exclusive offers, product previews and much more.