Lobster Wrapped In Cabbage Recipe

This is a very elegant and very impressive dish to serve when you want to make a great impression. It's a little pricy but well worth it when you want to impress. Enjoy.
Prep:10m Cook:30m Servings:12

Ingredients
3 lobsters
1 head cabbage
12 teaspoons melted butter
1/2 pound butter cut into cubes
4 shallots chopped
1-1/2 cups white wine
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Directions
Plunge lobsters into a large pot of boiling water for 7 minutes.
Cool under cold running water.
Remove meat from the shells and cut crosswise into 1/2-inch slices.
Divide into 12 equal portions and reserve.
Take 12 large leaves from cabbage and blanch them in a pot of salted boiling water until tender.
Drain leaves and dry flat on towels.
Remove the large central rib from the cabbage leaf.
Place on a work surface and overlap the two sides where the rib was removed.
Place the divided lobster on each cabbage leaf.
Fold cabbage leaf around the lobster to make a packet then put folded side down in baking dish.
Put 1 teaspoon of melted butter on each packet.
Preheat oven to 400.
Combine wine and shallot in stainless saucepan and reduce until most liquid has evaporated.
Add cream and reduce until 1/3 cup remains.
Strain sauce through fine cheesecloth and return to stainless pan.
Cook cabbage packets in oven until warm about 5 minutes.
Place sauce over low heat and whisk in the butter cubes one at a time.
Season with salt and pepper.
Place cabbage packets on warm plates and surround each packet with sauce.
Serve immediately.