Ingredients
- 1 package of pull-apart dinner rolls such as King's Hawaiian or homemade Sourdough Dinner Rolls or Sourdough Discard Dinner Rolls if you want to be really extra!
- 4 ounces salted butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon fresh chives, chopped
- 1 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
- 1 garlic clove, finely grated
- 1 pound of cooked lobster meat *see notes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Place rolls on a parchment lined baking sheet - don't separate rolls!
- Using a serrated knife, cut circles in tops of all rolls. Using your fingers, pull out most of the bread inside but don't go through the bottom.
- Combine melted butter, chives, Old Bay, and garlic in a bowl and stir well to combine.
- Brush rolls all over and inside cavities with garlic and herb butter - save remaining butter for lobster.
- Bake for 10 minutes until golden.
- Toss warm, cooked lobster with remaining garlic and herb butter. *See notes for lobster options
- Fill rolls generously with lobster meat.
- Garnish with chopped chives and enjoy!
Notes
For the lobster, you have options. If you don't want to wrestle with a live lobster, you can buy already steamed lobster and just gently warm it up in some butter on the stove top. I like to cook my own lobster for these pull apart lobster sliders. I always have some frozen, raw lobster claw and knuckle meat from Butcher Box in my freezer. And I grab a few frozen lobster tails from the store. I just thaw them in the refrigerator overnight. With kitchen scissors, I snip down the underside of the tail and carefully pull the meat out. Be careful if you do this - lobster shells are sharp! Then I cook it all gently in butter, about 7-10 minutes, until just cooked through, chop it all up and this is what I use for these sliders. This butter can be strained, frozen, and used the next time you cook lobster.
If you prefer a mayonnaise based lobster salad, feel free to go that route with cooked and cooled lobster meat.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: appetizer, holidays