Baked Trout Stuffed With Crab Food

STUFFED TROUT

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425°F.
• Heat the olive oil in a large nonreactive saucepan. Stir in the mushrooms, peppers, jalapeño, onion, and celery, if using.
• Cook for 2 to 3 minutes over medium-high heat, stirring frequently.
• Remove from the heat and cool for 15 minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Stir in the crabmeat. Set the mixture aside.
• Fan open the trout and sprinkle with the Old Bay Seasoning.
• Loosely pack the cavities of the fish with the vegetable-and crabmeat mixture. Place in a large baking dish and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until cooked through. The fish will expand, displaying the stuffing.
• Remove the trout from the pan and squeeze a lemon into the pan juices. Pour over the fish. Garnish with chopped parsley before serving.

BAKED TROUT STUFFED WITH CRAB

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Fry the bacon slices until crisp and rendered of fat.
• Drain on paper towels.
• Crumble the bacon.
• Pour off all but 1 tablespoon bacon fat from the pan into a small bowl and reserve.
• Brush a little reserved fat over the bottom of a baking dish that will fit the fish comfortably.
• Set aside.
• Heat the fat still in the frying pan and cook the scallions and celery, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 5-7 minutes.
• Mix together the vegetables, lemon rind, parsley, crumbs, salt and pepper.
• Fold in the crabmeat and bacon.
• Bind with the egg.
• Open each fish like a book, skin side down.
• Spread the stuffing over one half.
• Pack it down firmly, then fold over the other half and press down gently.
• Close the opening with toothpicks if desired.
• Set the fish in the prepared baking dish or roasting pan.
• Brush the tope of the fish with a little reserved bacon fat.
• Bake until the fish is cooked, 25-30 minutes.
• Carefully transfer the fish to warmed serving plates and serve immediately.

STUFFED BAKED TROUT

Steps:

• Cook and stir onions and pepper in butter until tender.
• Removed from heat and add gread crumbs, parsley, lemon juice and basil.
• Rub cavities of trout with salt then stuff each with approx 1/4 cup of stuffing.
• Place fish in baking dish
• Cook uncovered in 350 degree oven until fish flakes easily. approximately 30 - 35 minutes.
• Garnish with cherry tomatoes and parsley if desired.

SEAFOOD-STUFFED RAINBOW TROUT

Steps:

• Combine 2 tablespoons butter and the lemon juice; drizzle over trout cavities. Sprinkle with pepper; set aside. , In a small skillet, saute the rice, bacon, onion, red pepper, shrimp and scallops in oil for 5 minutes or until scallops are firm and opaque. Spoon into fish cavities. Arrange lemon slices on top of fish. , Brush remaining butter over a sheet of heavy-duty foil; wrap fish in foil and seal tightly. Place on a baking sheet. Bake at 425° for 25-28 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork. Open foil carefully to allow steam to escape.

STUFFED RAINBOW TROUT

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat; add onion and celery, and cook, stirring constantly, until tender.
• Remove from heat, stir in parsley and next 4 ingredients.
• Add bread cubes; toss gently.
• Combine egg and white wine; stir into bread mixture.
• Spread evenly into 11- x 7- x1 ½" baking dish; set aside.
• Rinse trout; pat dry.
• Sprinkle inside of fish evenly with ½ tsp salt.
• Combine lemon juice and soy sauce; brush inside of fish, reserving remaining lemon juice mixture.
• Dredge fish in flour.
• Place over stuffing, overlapping slightly.
• Drizzle with reserved lemon juice mixture.
• Place bacon over trout.
• Cover and bake at 350* for 45 minutes.
• Uncover and bake an additional 15 minutes.

STUFFED BAKED TROUT

Steps:

• Pour the stock over the couscous in a bowl, cover with cling film and leave until the couscous has soaked up the liquid. Stir the toasted pine nuts into the couscous along with parsley, lemon zest and juice. Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Lightly oil 2 sheets of foil. Season the trout, then make 2 'sandwiches' of 2 fillets with the couscous in the middle. Repeat with the rest of the trout and the couscous. Wrap the 'sandwiches' individually in foil, then bake for 15-20 mins. Serve with potatoes and salad.

HERB-STUFFED BAKED TROUT

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Rub trout with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Rub the cavity of the trout with salt and stuff with parsley, sage, and dill. Make a few slits in the skin on the back of the trout and stuff with lemon slices. Place trout on a lined baking sheet.
• Bake in preheated oven until flesh flakes easily with a fork, 20 to 30 minutes. Cover with aluminum foil if top starts browning too quickly.

SHRIMP STUFFED TROUT.

Steps:

• Start with shrimp stuffing; sauté onions and mushrooms in butter in skillet until lightly browned.
• Add salt, white pepper, red peppers, green onions, shrimp and sherry.
• Simmer over medium heat until liquid is reduced to glaze, stirring occasionally. Cool.
• Meanwhile, dredge each trout in flour, dip in eggs, and then roll in breadcrumbs to coat lightly.
• Carefully fill each trout cavity with Shrimp Stuffing.
• Secure seams with wood toothpicks.
• Melt butter in a large skillet.
• Sauté trout in butter, few at a time, until lightly brown on both sides and until stuffing is hot.
• Remove trout as done and keep warm.
• Add lemon juice and zest to butter remaining in pan and heat few seconds. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Pour over trout.

BAKED TROUT WITH GARLIC & MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• To cook trout, wash and dry the fish inside and out and coat sides with a little olive oil.
• Slice mushrooms and place half in the bottom of a shallow baking dish.
• Salt and pepper fish, inside and out, to taste and place in dish on top of mushrooms.
• Sprinkle bread crumbs over fish along with the minced parsley, chopped garlic and the green onion.
• If using fresh lemons, squeeze 1 or 2 directly over the entire trout including the inside.
• Meanwhile melt butter, add to olive oil and the juice of 2 lemons.
• Pour slowly over fish saving about half of the mixture.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes at 375 degrees or until they are tender and bread crumbs are light brown.
• Fish is done when the meat flakes easily when a fork is inserted into the flesh and lifted up slightly.
• Just before the fish are done, saute 1-2 minutes , the remaining mushrooms in the sauce that is left and pour over top after placing trout on a serving plate.
• Garnish with a few lemon wedges and a few sprigs of fresh parsley.
• Serve this Italian Trout recipe with rice, or Italian pasta, and a vegetable.