34 Reviews of Poor Man's Lobster ( Mahi Mahi)

From: Chef #196253

On Feb 16, 2005

OH MY GOODNESS!!! I marinated mine in the beer all night with garlic lightly sprinkled on the fish, and put the fish directly in the frying pan with some butter. I melted butter in a dish with some garlic and garlic butter was created. I forgot to get the lemon, so I just dipped the cooked product in the garlic butter... this was incredible. My boyfriend is not a big fish fan, but he loved this, as I did too. Thanks sooo much! This dish is excellent! Now I know why it is called "Poor Man's Lobster". This was my first time trying Mahi Mahi and this recipe makes it tast so much like lobster.

From: shadoe987

On Dec 5, 2006

This dish is simple and delicious. I actually have simplified it even more. I leave the fish in whole filets and boil the fish in the beer and lemon juice because I don't own a steamer. It still comes out delicious.

From: Marsha D.

On Mar 6, 2005

I wish I could rate this higher than a five! This was absolutely the best steamed fish I have ever ate. I also marinated mine in the beer with some kosher salt and dill weed for a hour. Then placed beer in bottom of pot and used my steaming pot and place fillets in and poured the lemon juice over fillets. Thank you for posting such a great fish recipe! I made the garlic butter sauce but DH and I didn't need any cause the fish was fine the way it was with some Tarter sauce

From: Sammy Mae

On May 8, 2008

This was so good and so easy! Cooked according to recipe, except I couldn't find mahi mahi - instead used tilapia, which worked out great!

From: JulieMouse83

On Feb 27, 2007

Wow! I can't say the texture was like lobster, but I used a frozen fillet, quickly thawed. However, it was SOOOOO yummy! I'm trying to lose about ten pounds, and this is a perfect recipe for me. I substitued butter and salt for "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" spray, and used a little garlic, and the dipping sauce was yummy and incredibly low-cal! I had a green salad on the side, and it made for a lovely supper (meanwhile my kids were gnoshing on fattening stuff...but I think they lost out, not me!)

From: food snob mom

On Jun 7, 2008

I really loved this recipe and so did my hubby! It's really simple and you can't even taste any hint of the beer in the fish. It almost seems like a waste of a bottle of beer to make this, but it is worth it. The dipping sauce is tasty too! Can't wait to make it again!

From: bobo3039

On Jun 23, 2006

I didn't use beer, but just boiled some water with lemon to steam my fish. The garlic butter was especially tasty with the fish. Thanks for sharing.

From: Phantom #2

On Aug 30, 2005

Simply outstanding! Even my daughter that does not care for fish really enjoyed this recipe.

From: sudmom

On Mar 26, 2005

I wasn't as impressed as everyone else with this recipe. We cook a lot of fish and I LOVE lobster so I thought this would be a perfect recipe. We cooked fish about 7 minutes. I thought it tasted like fish dipped in garlic butter. Texture was too different from lobster to mimic it. I would save my calories and fat grams for real lobster!

From: Bev

On Mar 4, 2007

I made this recipe as directed. It was very easy to follow and produced a very tender and flavorful fish. I made the sauce with this recipe and also provided several other sauces with our fish to do a little taste testing. Butter and garlic never misses ; ) Thank you, Mercy!