Si King and Dave Myers served up a tasty butter poached lobster with Scottish bucatini pasta on The Hairy Bikers Go West.

The ingredients are: 4 uncooked lobster tails (in their shells).

For the lobster stock: 25g butter, 1 small brown onion, chopped, 1 carrot, chopped, 1 celery stick, chopped, 4 sprigs fresh thyme, shells from 2–3 lobster tails (see above), 1 tomato, roughly chopped, 1 tsp tomato puree, ¼ tsp cayenne pepper, 1 tbsp brandy, 60ml dry white wine and 1 litre chicken stock.

For the butter-poached lobster tails: 100ml olive oil, 250g salted butter, 1 tsp white wine vinegar, 4 garlic cloves, crushed and 4 raw lobster tails (from above).

For the bucatini and lobster stock dressing: 400g bucatini pasta, 150g brown shrimp, handful freshly chopped flatleaf parsley, 2 sprigs tarragon, finely chopped, 1 lemon, zest only, salt and freshy ground black pepper.

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