Boiled Lobster with Cumin Sauce
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- pepper
- lovage (ligusticum)
- parsley (petroselinum)
- dried mint
- cumin
- honey
- vinegar
- liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
- nard leaf (folium)
- malabathrum (cinnamon-family aromatic leaf)
Instructions
- Grind pepper, lovage, parsley, dried mint and plenty of cumin with honey, vinegar and liquamen.
- Optionally add nard leaf and malabathrum; serve over the boiled lobster.