Lobster Tails-Ninja Foodi Recipe

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4.62 from 13 votes

Prep Time5 mins

Cook Time2 mins

Course: Dinner, Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: lobster, lobster tail, seafood, ninja foodi

Servings: 4-6 ounce tails

Calories: 4kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

4 4-6 ounce Lobster Tails
1 cup Liquid Use water, chicken broth, vegetable broth or seafood broth. Whichever you prefer will work. I found that the chicken broth gives a nice flavor that is not overpowering and prefer it over the other options.

Instructions

Make compound butter.
Butterfly lobster tails- do so by cutting the shell of the lobster down the back with kitchen shears, from the top to the bottom. Do not cut through the end of the tail, stop cutting when you get to the last section of the tail. Separate the meat from the shell by pulling the shell apart- do not fully operate the shell as you want to be able to lay the semi-connected lobster meat on top of the shell for cooking and presentation. Leave the last 20% of the lobster meat connected to the shell. After pulling the lobster meat away from the shell, gently close lobster shell under the meat and lay the meat on top of the shell. It’s okay if small pieces of the shell break off during this process. Nobody will know. 🙂
Apply compound butter to butterflied lobster tails. Using a tablespoon, scoop out about 1.5 tablespoons of compound butter and place on top of the butterflied lobster tails- push down a bit to make sure that the compound butter is stuck to the lobster tail pretty well.
Place lobster tails with compound butter on them into a steamer basket standing up and leaning against the side of the basket. The trailside should be facing down and the meat side should be at the top inside of the basket.
Place steamer basket filled with your lobster tails in the Ninja Foodi.
Pour in 1 cup of liquid- you can use water, vegetable broth, seafood stock or chicken broth.
Close Ninja Foodi pressure cooker lid and move valve to “seal” position.
Pressure cook lobster tails on high for 2 minutes.
While lobsters are cooking, microwave the remaining compound butter so that you can use it as the dipping sauce for the lobster tails! 🙂 Microwave in increments of 15 seconds until all butter has fully melted. Stir well and pour into small dishes for serving.
When timer sounds, quick release all pressure. This should take about 2 minutes.
Once all pressure has been released, open pressure cooker lid and remove lobsters from the Ninja Foodi.
Serve and eat immediately.

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Notes

Feel free to use larger lobster tails if you would like. 2 minutes should be plenty of time for a 6 or 8 ounce lobster tail but if you make a much larger lobster tail- 10 ounces or larger, you will need to add 1 minute to the cook time to be a total of 3 minutes under pressure.
Do not let the lobster sit in the pot for very long after they have completed cooking. They will for sure be overcooked if you do.
Be sure not to skip the butterflying step. Butterflying the lobster helps the compound better to cook into the lobster and the garlic, lemon, butter goodness enhances the lobster!
Use the best ever compound butter on other things like steak and veggies! It's so good!

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