Maine Coast Lobster Rolls

Name: Maine Coast Lobster Rolls
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: new england
Ingredients: 1 pound cooked lobster meat; 4 stalks crisp, cold celery; 1 to 1 1/4 cups Hellmann's mayonnaise; 6 hot dog rolls, top-sliced (not side-sliced); Paprika (optional); Capers (optional); 4 tablespoons butter, melted (optional)

By The New York Times

Total Time: 20 minutes
Rating: 4(946)
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Here is the simplest of recipes, brought to The Times in 2001 by Jason Epstein in the low, dispiriting weeks that followed the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He was inspired, he wrote, by the food writer M.F.K. Fisher’s account of a disastrous love affair, and quoted her in his article about cooking for friends at that time: “We returned to the life that had been so real, like fog or smoke, caught in the current of air. We were two ghosts [but] very live ghosts, and drank and ate and saw and felt and made love better than ever before, with an intensity that seemed to detach us utterly from life.” Thus, of course, lobster rolls.

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Ingredients

Yield:6 servings

1pound cooked lobster meat
4stalks crisp, cold celery
1 to 1¼cups Hellmann's mayonnaise
6hot dog rolls, top-sliced (not side-sliced)
Paprika (optional)
Capers (optional)
4tablespoons butter, melted (optional)

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Preparation

Step 1
Cut the lobster into ½-inch pieces and place in a bowl. Chop the celery into medium-fine pieces and stir into lobster. Stir in just enough mayonnaise to coat the lobster mixture.
Step 2
As is traditional in Maine lobster shacks, fry the rolls in a skillet or on a griddle in butter. Otherwise, toast them on both sides under a broiler. Add the lobster salad and sprinkle with paprika and a few capers.

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Comments

JMBHyannis7 years ago

Way too much mayo and celery for a pound of lobster!! One or two celery stalks and maximum of 2 tablespoons of mayo.

rsmith7 years ago

I moved from Downeast Maine to Richmond VA and finding top cut dog rolls is very easy. Every state on the east coast has top cut hotdog rolls. As for this recipe it's just wrong, 1lb lobster meat, tablespoon or two mayo and half a stick of celery is all you need. I been eating then this way for 50 years only Mass adds all this other stuff and in Milford CT they use butter.

cmbc7 years ago

No. Just No. Not nearly enough lobster for 6 rolls, WAY too much mayo, WAY too much celery (if you insist on celery - which you shouldn't - you only need a small amount, in a pretty fine dice). NO capers, NO paprika.

Lobster. Melted butter. Or if you must have it with mayo, the smallest amount possible to pull it together.

As written, this is a sinful waste of lobster.

SGM1239 months ago

Absolutely no no no celery! Or paprika! Just a tiny bit of mayo and hint of lemon. NOTHING else. Of course a grilled, buttered roll.

Pat10 months ago

Have made these for years using my Vermont mother-in-law’s similar recipe. No capers or paprika needed!

Rick Bella10 months ago

I followed the recipe -- and I was sorry I did. Lobster has a very subtle flavor that is easily overpowered by celery, capers and paprika. Also, too much mayo. Just let the lobster shine through!

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