Celebrate lobster season with a flavorful soupy rice

>>> good morning, in "today's kitchen," what's for dinner? how about lobster ? jose andres has a new restaurant in puerto rico . it's a brand new ritz karlcarlton. jose.

>> so happy to be here.

>> a lot of people are intimidated by lobster .

>> lobsters are great, and right now our fishermen in maine and other parts, they need us to buy lobsters.

>> okay.

>> we need to help them so this is a good way.

>> all righty.

>> doing things from spain. today i'm cooking puerto rican style. and the national dish in puerto rico , lobster aso pao.

>> you'll use a spiney lobster .

>> all around the island, but if you're here --

>> driving cabs.

>> you would use a maine lobster . here we make a sofrito, everyone knows what that is, right?

>> in puerto rico it would be onions, peppers, cilantro, capers, olives, red peppers and garlic and we cook everything, put it in a blender, bingo.

>> bingo.

>> beautiful so now we need to make the stock. we have heads, flavorful, don't throw them garbage.

>> don't do that.

>> flavor is in the head.

>> in the head!

>> right here, olive oil , some celery, some carrots, onions. we carmelize.

>> and what do we do?

>> put the heads in the pot.

>> do you know the recipe?

>> i don't know.

>> throw the lobster in.

>> so we are ready. we add some white wine , some tomato paste .

>> why not.

>> and some water, help me out. we let it boil, 30 minutes .

>> wow, smell it.

>> we we come here, we put some pork, some ham, some more olive oil . imagine this is olive oil , and then we put some tomato paste , too, and we put this.

>> what is that?

>> it's an amazing seed, very flavorful and we add the stock. when the stock is boiling, what do you do?

>> put in some rice.

>> man, you are good.

>> i'm you unbelievable!

>> you should stop doing the weather.

>> maybe people have said that.

>> it's poilboiling, the lobster tail and clause are ready to go in.

>> oh, you need to look at it.

>> good. and then you look it cook, 15 minutes and take a look at what happens.

>> slowly, slowly.

>> oh, man!

>> lobster .

>> everybody together.

>> take a look at this.

>> wow.

>> we do the lobster .

>> oh, my gosh.

>> and we finish, the truffle of the caribbean.

>> what is that?

>> heart of palm.

>> here, take a look.

>> oh, wow.

>> don't tell me this is not amazing.

>> that is not amazing.

>> it is amazing.