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Read about lobster in the BrightCulinary Book

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Ingredients
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  • 1 lb cheese
  • buciate
  • milk
  • 1 whole summer burgundy truffle
  • 1 whole lobster tail
Cut open the lobster tail, pull out the meat and gently butter poach it.
Grate the cheese.
  • 1½ tbsp Italian butter
  • 1 tbsp flour
Make a roux with the lobster poaching butter and the flour.
  • sodium citrate
Stream in the milk a splash at a time, whisking until fully incorporated before adding the next, and stabilise with sodium citrate.
Add the cheese, then the poached lobster, to heat back through, and combine with the cooked pasta.
  • chives
  • freshly cracked black pepper
  • black truffle
Garnish with minced chives, cracked black pepper and freshly shaved black truffle.