Low Carb Diet Recipes -Lobster Salad in Endive

If you want to be good to yourself and your guests at the same time, ask your fish store to sell you cooked fresh lobster meat, instead of cooking a lobster yourself. This is a great summer appetizer or a special treat for New Year's Eve. This recipe is also good, and not quite so expensive, with cooked shrimp or crabmeat. You'll see that a little salad makes a lot of appetizers.

• 3/4 pound fresh cooked lobster meat, small-diced
• 1/2 cup good mayonnaise
• 1/2 cup small-diced celery (1 stalk)
• 1 tablespoon capers, drained
• 11/2 tablespoons minced fresh dill
• Pinch kosher salt
• Pinch freshly ground black pepper
• 4 heads Belgian endive

Combine the lobster, mayonnaise, celery, capers, dill, salt, and pepper. With a sharp knife, cut off the base of the endive and separate the leaves. Use a teaspoon to fill the end of each endive leaf with lobster salad. Arrange on a platter and serve.

Connie Wheeler adds, "Make sure you use real lobster though. I was perusing through my carbohydrate counter just yesterday at fish and seafood and noticed that the fake lobster or crab is really pretty high in carbohydrates at 8.5 carbs per 3 oz.