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A grilled langostino prawn. Langosta is a Spanish word with different meanings in different areas, most commonly applied to various types of crustacean.In the United States, it is commonly used in the restaurant trade to refer to the meat of the squat lobster, which is neither a true lobster nor a prawn.
Lobster Thermidor is a French dish of lobster meat cooked in a rich wine sauce, stuffed back into a lobster shell, and browned. The sauce is often a mixture of egg yolks and brandy (such as Cognac), served with an oven-browned cheese crust, typically Gruyère. [1] The sauce originally contained mustard (typically powdered mustard). [2]
Nephrops norvegicus, known variously as the Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine (compare langostino) or scampi, is a slim, coral colored lobster that grows up to 25 cm (10 in) long, and is "the most important commercial crustacean in Europe". [3]
Lobster is also used in soup, bisque, lobster rolls, cappon magro, and dishes such as lobster Newberg and lobster Thermidor. Cooks boil or steam live lobsters. When a lobster is cooked, its shell's color changes from brown to orange because the heat from cooking breaks down a protein called crustacyanin , which suppresses the orange hue of the ...
Nephrops norvegicus, the langoustine Scampi served Scampi in picante tomato sauce. Scampi is a crustacean-based seafood dish, especially featuring langoustine (the Italian name of which gives the dish its name), as well as shrimp or prawns, varying regionally in preparation.
Bisque (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a smooth, creamy, highly seasoned soup of French origin, classically based on a strained broth of crustaceans. [1] It can be made from lobster, langoustine, crab, shrimp, or crawfish.
Spiny lobsters, also known as langustas, langouste, or rock lobsters, are a family (Palinuridae) of about 60 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda Reptantia. ...
Flesh from these animals is often commercially sold in restaurants as "langostino" or sometimes dishonestly called "lobster" when incorporated in seafood dishes. [13] As well as being used for human consumption, there is demand for squat lobster meat to be used as feed in fish farms and shrimp or prawn farms.