Next time you want to celebrate in style, try this captivating Carribbean lobster dish made with an equally enticing  rum butter dipping sauce. Perfect for a first time date you want to truly impress, an anniversary celebration, or for a gourmet feast.

caribbean lobster with rum-jerk butter
recipe by Mount Gay® Rum

two to three 1-2 lb lobsters (or tails) halved and cleaned
1 tbsp melted butter
½ cup chopped onion
1 tbsp jerk seasoning
½ cup chopped sweet pepper
¼ cup Mount Gay Eclipse Rum
2-3 tbsp butter
¼ cup fresh lime juice
¼ cup chives and parsley chopped
½ cup tomato concasse* for garnish

* tomatoes that have been peeled, seeded (seeds and membranes removed), and diced in small chunks


1. Parboil the lobster until bright red, then put into a 300 F oven with a little melted butter until the sauce below is done.
2. Sauté onion, jerk seasoning and sweet pepper in remaining melted butter and cook until onion turns translucent.
3. Removing from heat pour in the rum and add butter stirring until it has melted evenly and turns creamy.
4. Add lime juice and herbs, stirring together

plating the dish

Take each lobster tail and cut in half keeping shell in place. Pull all lobster meat from the rest of the lobster. Keep the body shell for plating your dishes. 

Place a bed of greens on each plate. Next place a hollowed lobster shell on each plate (as seen above) on top of the greens. Add lobster meat in a mound next to shell opening and place lobster tails on plate. Pour sauce over lobster and serve the rest in dipping bowls. Garnish with chopped tomato concasse.

You can add grilled asparagus to this meal --it will work well with the dipping rum butter sauce or served plain with some fresh squeezed lemon juice and a dash of sea salt.