I developed this recipe for fantastic at-home lobster tacos my family loves after being let down by restaurant lobster tacos. I prepared my food indoors using my grill pan.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 7 mins |
| Total Time: | 27 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 8 tacos |
Ingredients
- 4 lobster tails
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- ¼ cup red guajillo chile sauce (such as Herdez®)
- 1 tomato, diced, divided
- 3 green onions, chopped
- ¼ cup shredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese
- 8 (6 inch) flour tortillas
- 1 small avocado, sliced
- ½ cup shredded lettuce
Instructions
- Preheat a lightly oiled grill pan over medium-high heat.
- Cut lobster tails in half lengthwise along the spine. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper. Grill until slightly charred and shells are bright in color, about 5 minutes. Remove lobster meat from the shells and chop coarsely.
- Combine chile sauce, 1/2 the tomato, and green onions in a large bowl. Mix in chopped lobster meat.
- Divide Colby-Monterey Jack cheese evenly among tortillas. Top each tortilla with some of the lobster mixture. Fold tacos over and grill until cheese melts and tortillas are lightly charred, about 1 minute per side. Garnish with remaining tomato, avocado, and shredded lettuce.
- Serve on corn tortillas if you prefer.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 458 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 45 g |
| Cholesterol | 92 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Protein | 31 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 1179 mg |
| Sugars | 5 g |
| Fat | 17 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
The season was different
Made these yesterday for our Bills/Patriots tailgate. I prepared the tails ahead of time, adding a little lime juice and butter as they cooked in the shell, and then did the reheat adding the Herdez sauce, tomato & green onion on site. Also used a double layer of toasted corn tortillas since the filling was a bit saucy. Delish! And fast.
We really liked this as a change of pace. I bought lobster already cooked and did not reheat the meat as I didn’t want it to dry out. Even so, these were good.
Really delicious. Found small lobster tails on sale so I splurged on a couple. This comes together very quickly . The guajillo sauce is my very favorite of the Herdez sauces so I was happy to see this recipe. I used corn tortillas. I am going to try this with some fake lobster next time as that is a little more in my price range