Trout Roasted With Sage Walnuts And Bacon Food

WALNUT CRUSTED TROUT FILLETS

Steps:

• Using fork, stir flour, sage, salt and pepper on large plate to blend.
• Whisk eggs in medium bowl.
• Place walnuts on another large plate.
• Sprinkle trout fillets with salt and pepper.
• Dredge trout in flour mixture, then dip in eggs to coat.
• Press both sides of trout in walnuts to coat.
• Melt 1 TBS butter with 1 TBS oil in each of 2 heavy large skillets over medium heat.
• Add 2 trout fillets to each skillet.
• Cook until coating is lightly browned and trout are cooked through, about 5 minutes per side.
• Transfer trout to plates.
• Squeeze 1 lemon wedge over each fillet, sprinkle with parsley, and serve.
• Serves 4.

BROOK TROUT ROASTED WITH SAGE, WALNUTS AND BACON

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. In a medium skillet, fry the bacon until it is cooked through and very lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Remove the bacon and set it aside. Pour out excess bacon grease, return the skillet to the heat and add the shallot and walnuts. Toast, shaking the pan frequently, until the walnuts are very lightly browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the sage and reserved bacon.
• Season the fish inside and out with salt and pepper and brush the skin lightly with vegetable oil. Divide the bacon mixture between the four trout, stuffing it in the cavity of each fish. Place fish in a large roasting pan fitted with a rack or two smaller pans. Roast until the fish is just cooked through, about 15 minutes. Transfer the trout to plates and serve garnished with lemon wedges and watercress sprigs.

LEMON-SAGE TROUT WITH BEURRE BLANC

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl combine lemon zest, chopped sage, salt and pepper. Rub all filets of trout with olive oil and season with lemon-sage seasoning mix. In an oven or open grill, roast trout at 350F for 10 minutes on a greased sheet pan. Roast until the thickest part of the filets start to flake.
• While trout is cooking saute the chopped shallots, garlic and bay leaf over hight heat. When the shallots are sweated deglaze the pan with white wine and lemon juice then reduce the liquid by half. Add the heavy cream and reduce that liquid by half. While the liquid is reducing set the butter aside and let it reach room temperature.
• Remove sauce from the heat and slowly whisk in the room temperature butter until all the butter has been incorporated. Adjust seasoning and strain the sauce through a fine mesh seive. Serve immediately.

BACON-WRAPPED TROUT STUFFED WITH FRESH SAGE

Steps:

• Drizzle cavity of trout with olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Stuff cavity with 4 lemon slices and 1 sprig of sage.
• Wrap trout with bacon like a mummy, using toothpicks to hold bacon in place. Each trout will require about 6 strips of bacon.
• Grill for approximately 5 minutes per side over direct medium-high heat, or until bacon is crispy and trout is cooked throughout. Trout can also be pan-seared for approximately 5 minutes per side.

BACON AND SAGE PANFRIED TROUT

Steps:

• In a large heavy skillet cook 8 of the bacon slices over moderate heat, turning them occasionally, until they are crisp, transfer them to paper towels to drain, and pour off the fat. Crumble the cooked bacon into a small bowl and stir in the minced sage. In the skillet cook the remaining 16 bacon slices in 2 batches until the bacon just becomes translucent and the edges begin to curl, transfer them to paper towels to drain, and pour off the fat.
• Preheat the oven to 375°F. Rinse the trout under cold water and pat them dry inside and out. Sprinkle the cavity of each trout with one eighth of the crumbled bacon mixture and salt and pepper to taste. Wrap 2 of the whole bacon slices around each trout, using wooden picks to secure the bacon and close the cavities. Mound the cornmeal on a sheet of wax paper and roll each trout in it, coating it completely and gently shaking off the excess.
• Heat the skillet over moderately high heat until it is hot, add the oil, and heat it until it is hot but not smoking. In the oil fry the trout, not touching each other, in batches for 3 minutes on each sides, or until they are just firm and the bacon is golden, transferring them as they are fried with long spatulas to a shallow baking pan. When all the trout has been fried, bake them for 5 minutes, or until they just flake and are heated through. Discard the wooden picks, arrange the trout carefully on a platter, and garnish them with the sage sprigs and the lemon wedges.

BACON WRAPPED TROUT

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
• Sprinkle the inside and outside of the trout with salt and pepper. Combine 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, the herbs, capers, garlic, lemon juice and some salt and pepper in a small bowl and divide this mixture between the two trout. Fold the trout back onto themselves, lay 2 lemon slices on top of each fish, and then wrap each trout with 2 slices of bacon holding the lemons in place.
• Heat a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat and coat lightly with the remaining tablespoon olive oil. Place the trout, lemon-side up, in the pan and cook for 3 minutes, then place in the oven. Roast, flipping halfway through roasting to ensure the bacon is crisp, for 20 to 25 minutes.

TROUT ROASTED WITH SAGE, WALNUTS AND BACON

Steps:

• preheat the oven to 450.
• in a medium skillet, fry the bacon until it is cooked through and very lightly browned, ~5 min. remove the bacon and set aside. pour out the excess bacon grease and return the skillet to the stove.
• add the shallot and walnuts, toasting and shaking the pan, until the walnuts are lightly browned, 3-4 min. remove the pan from the heat and stir in the bacon and sage leaves.
• season the fish inside and out with salt and pepper. brush the skin lightly with vegetable oil. divide the bacon mixture between the 4 trout, stuffing it in the cavity of each fish. place the fish in a large roasting pan fitted with a rack. roast until the fish is just cooked through, ~15 min.
• transfer to plates and serve with lemon and garnished with the watercress.