I have some Halibut I want to cook up and want to try some of this poor mans lobster. Any of you know how to make it ??? seems like it had something to do with 7-UP or ??? I had some years ago and don't think it tasted anything like lobster, but it was pretty good.

If you bring it over to my house, I'll cook it for you real nice. There is about 75% loss during cooking, so if you want 1# of cooked meat, bring 4# of frozen. :p

Thaw meat.
Preheat oven to 450.
Put thawed meat in a shallow foil-lined pan.
Sprinkle with Santa Maria or similar melange.
Bake until just flaky.
Serve with lemon slices, asparagus, and wild rice.

OhMyGawd that's good.

Poach it in heavily salted water and serve it with drawn butter. Cabezon actually taste more like lobster than halibut.

The recipe I tried was 1/4 Cup salt, 1/4 cup sugar in 1/2 gallon water, poach thawed chunks in water and serve with drawn butter.

The one we use to use was to cube it and boil in chicken broth. Never tasted exactly like lobster to me but was pretty good.

Personally I think it's too salty to do 1/4 cup salt and 1/4 cup sugar. We always cut back on the salt and add a little more sugar. Melt some butter and mix some soy sauce with the butter for dipping and you have yourself a treat.

Like Jacob said. The key to the "lobster" in the poor man's lobster is the sweetness. It requires sugar. For consistency, it requires poaching. At least these are the keys to imitating steamed/boiled lobster. Be careful not to overcook.

The best i have tried by far is

boil 2" cubed fish in lots of Sprite for no more than 4 minutes.

Then dip in hot butter.

Works good for salmon and halibut and some others but the best taste by far and closest to lobster was Lake Trout (makinaw). YUM!!

I HATE the taste of lake trout, way too fishy for me but i tried this recipe with it and it is now my favorite fish and recipe!

Wasn't there a long thread a year ago about boiling sturgeon or halibut in Sprite or 7 UP to make "Poorman's Lobster?" I always thought that was funny for halibut since if you buy it in the store it's not very cheep but instead almost the same as a cheep lobster.

Buy fish at the store ???? Anyway, thanks for the ideas. I am making it for dinner tonight with a hunk on the BBQ for backup.

cut halibut in to 1" cubes, boil 2 quarts water and add 1 cup of sugar. Drop in the cubes and boil until they float, no longer, dip out and enjoy. Simple, cheap and good.

Doubletake

I tried the 'boil in sprite until they float' thing and thought it tasted like sweetened halibut. Once was enough, there are to many other ways to make it that taste a heck of a lot better.

The way we do the Sturgeon with 7-UP is. Pour one of the big bottles of 7-UP in a pan, bring it to a rolling boil. With the fish cubed in about 1" chunks, put it in the boiling 7-UP. When it turns white and floats it is done. About 4 or 5 minutes, dip it in melted butter with garlic in it. One note that we found was to use SALTED butter, with a few drops of liquid garlic.

Did the water, salt and sugar method. It came out pretty good. I liked it with cocktail sauce more than with butter