Lobster fra diavolo linguine is perfect for a fancy night in or a weeknight dinner. Lobster tails cooked in a garlic and crushed red pepper based tomato sauce served over a bed of linguine. Scale back the crushed red pepper if you can’t handle too much fra diavolo.

Remember that fresh start of a new year feeling from two weeks ago? I was filled with that vip and vigor while I planned for our new Year’s Eve meal and snacks. I got the idea for lobster.

Lobster tails are the perfect way to start the new year. They do say that however your New Year’s Eve goes is a good indicator for how your year will end up.

Supposedly.

I thought, why not bless your new year with some fancy food?

I blame Jessica from How Sweet Eats for putting that lobster idea in my head. She makes a killer lobster mac and cheese every year for New Year’s. I made it a few times, pre-kids, for Mike and myself. I was all in on the lobster pasta plan until I let my inner cheese board city planner take hold.

That cheese board was supposed to be snacks for two people. It turned into a city of cheese and henceforth was known as dinner.

Oops!

I finally defrosted my lobster tails a week later. A nice fancy dinner of lobster would maybe be appreciated more if it was prepared and eaten on the first Monday back after winter break.

I love it when a new and better plan comes together.

Mike loves spicy food. This recipe was supposed to be titled “Lobster Arrabbiata.” I have a popular mussels arrabbiata post from a while ago. I thought this recipe could be slightly similar.

Mike took a few bites of the pasta and immediately started to sweat.

“Nope! This is not an arrabbiata! This is from the devil. Yes. Definitely a lobster fra diavolo.” He told me.

The pasta is definitely spicy. Scale back the 2 teaspoons of crushed red pepper flakes to 1 if you are averse to red pepper flakes like Mike. You can always add more later.

Let me know if Mike was right. Is this dish truly from the devil? I like to think it’s perfectly angelic and delightful. But I loooove me all the CRP.

Lobster Fra Diavolo

Yield: serves 2-4

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 35 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Lobster tails cooked in a spicy crushed red pepper, garlic, tomato sauce served over linguine.

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 3 lobster tails
• 2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
• 5 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 1/4 cup brandy
• 1/2 cup low-sodium chicken stock
• 1, 28oz can whole peeled tomatoes
• 1 bay leaf
• salt, to taste
• 16oz linguine
• fresh chopped parsley, for garnish

Instructions

1. Heat a large, deep skillet over medium. add oil and continue to heat for another 1-2 minutes.
2. Remove two of the tails from the shells and dice into bite-sized pieces. Cut the other tail down the center using kitchen shears. Be sure to remove any signs of that long black vein down the back of the lobster tail.
3. toss all the lobster shells and pieces with flour. Shake off excess.
4. Once the oil is shimmering, add the flour-dusted lobster tail pieces and shells. Cook for 3-5 minutes until the tails turn red and the pieces of lobster are no longer translucent. Transfer to a plate off to the side.
5. Add crushed red pepper and garlic to the hot oil. Cook for about 3 minutes until garlic is toasted.
6. Mix in the tomato paste, cook for 2 minutes.
7. Add the brandy. Cook until nearly evaporated, about 3 minutes.
8. Reduce heat to medium/low. Mix in the stock and canned tomatoes. Use kitchen shears to cut the tomatoes into bite-sized pieces. Add salt.
9. Partially cover the pot and simmer for 30 minutes.
10. Near the midway point of the sauce cooking, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Once the water is boiling, add the pasta, and cook according to the package instructions. Drain and set off to the side.
11. Remove the lid from the sauce. Add the lobster pieces back to the sauce along with the tail halves. Mix to combine. Cook for 5 more minutes uncovered.
12. Remove the bay leaf. Adjust salt to taste. Toss the noodles and the sauce together. Add lobster halves on top of pasta along with parsley for garnish.

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