Whole Trout Amandine Food

TROUT AMANDINE

Steps:

• Rinse and pat dry trout. Season inside and out with salt and pepper to taste. Dredge trout in flour.
• Heat 2 tablespoons butter in large skillet over high heat until melted. Add trout and brown both sides. Lower heat to medium and cook for about 5 minutes on each side or until cooked through. Remove trout to a serving plate and keep warm.
• Wipe out pan and add 2 tablespoons butter. Cook butter over medium heat until it just begins to brown. Add the almonds and brown.
• Pour sauce and almonds over fish and sprinkle with lemon juice and parsley. Garnish with fresh lemon slices.

TROUT ALMANDINE

Steps:

• Lightly toast the almonds in a saute pan. Reserve. Combine the flour, salt, and cayenne pepper in a small, flat dish. Pour the milk into another one. Place the trout fillets in the milk.
• Heat a large saute pan over medium heat. Add the olive oil and butter. Dredge the fillets in the flour mixture on both sides. Add to the pan and increase heat. Put the garlic cloves in the pan and swirl it around.
• Turn the trout after 2 minutes and remove the garlic (you don't want it to brown). Cook until the fish is cooked through and lightly golden brown, about 1 or 2 more minutes. Scatter the almonds over top. Serve immediately.

TROUT AMANDINE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
• Saute almonds in butter until golden.
• Add 1/4 teaspoons salt and lemon juice; remove from heat. Set aside.
• Combine remaining 1/2 teaspoons salt, flour, pepper, and thyme.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Dip fillets in milk; dredge in flour mixture.
• Fry fillets, 2 at a time until browned on both sides; drain in paper towels.
• Remove to a serving dish; drizzle with almond butter sauce, and sprinkle with parsley.

TROUT AMANDINE, STEAMED ASPARAGUS, AND NEW POTATOES

Steps:

• Place oven on low and rest a platter on an oven rack.
• Add potatoes to a deep pot of boiling water; just enough to cover potatoes. Salt water and add potato halves. The potatoes will cook for about 12 minutes for fork tender.
• Hold asparagus spears at each end. Snap asparagus tips from tough ends by bending spears. Place spears in a colander. Rest colander on top of the potato pot and place a cover over the colander. The asparagus will steam while the potatoes cook. Do this the last 5 or 6 minutes that the potatoes are cooking.
• Potatoes will be just about done when the last of your trout is going into the skillet (method follows.) When the potatoes are tender, take a minute to drain them and return them to warm pot. Leave asparagus covered and set aside. Dress potatoes with chives, a drizzle of olive oil and a little salt. Leave in warm pot until trout is on the table, then transfer to a serving bowl.
• Heat a large skillet over moderate heat. Combine egg and milk in a tin pie plate, beat with a fork. Place a cup of flour in a second pie tin and season well with salt and sparingly with pepper. Coat trout fillets in egg and milk, then in seasoned flour. Collect fillets on a plate until all of them are dredged and ready to be cooked.
• Add 1/2 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil to your skillet, half a turn of the pan in a slow stream. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons butter to the pan. When the butter foams, add trout and gently saute 4 fillets for 2 or 3 minutes on each side, until golden. Transfer trout fillets to warm platter in oven.
• Return pan to the stove and add 1/2 tablespoon extra-virgin oil and 1 1/2 tablespoons butter. When butter foams, repeat cooking process. When all of the trout is cooked, add last tablespoon of butter to the pan. When the butter melts, add almonds and brown until lightly golden, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Remove trout from oven and pour almonds over the platter. Garnish platter with chopped parsley, lemon wedges, steamed asparagus spears, and potatoes.

WHOLE TROUT AMANDINE

Steps:

• Use fresh or frozen trout make sure the fish is fully defrosted.
• Make sure the broiler is on and is very hot (preheat).
• Tost the almond in about 1 tbs of butter, keep warm.
• Cut the lemon into 3 or 6 slices.
• Place 1/3 of the lemon in the cavity of each fish.
• Line a broiler tray with buttered foil.
• Smear a little butter on each side of the fish.
• Broil trout for abou 5 minutes.
• Turn the fish carefully smear a little more butter and broil for about 5 minutes more.
• Ganish the trout with the toasted almods.
• If you are deboning add the almonds after the deboning has been done.

TROUT AMANDINE-ANOTHER ALL TIME NEW ORLEANS FAVORITE.

Steps:

• Mix together the flour, salt, and paprika and coat the fillets on both sides with the mixture. Spread the olive oil over the bottom of a 17-by-11-inch baking pan and lay the fillets in it skin-side down. Pour 2 tablespoons of the butter over the fish. Position the dish about 4 inches from the heat source and broil until browned on the outside and opaque at the center, 4 to 5 minutes. Meanwhile, combine the almonds and the remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a medium nonstick skillet. Stirring constantly, cook over medium heat until browned, about 3 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, and stir in the lemon juice, hot sauce, and parsley. Plate the fillets, and spoon some of the almond mixture over each.

TROUT AMANDINE

Steps:

• Stir together the milk, 1 teaspoon of salt and shakes of tabasco sauce in a 13x9 pan. Wash and dry trout slices. Add to pan, turning to coat, and immersing as well as possible. Cover with plastic film and chill 2-3 hours.
• Remove trout fillets from milk, put them on a plate, do not dry them, discard milk mixture.
• Spread flour on another plate, season with pepper.
• Melt 1/4 cup butter with oil in a heavy skillet.
• While butter melts, dredge each trout fillet in flour, lightly shaking off excess. When butter is hot, add as many trout fillets as will fit without crowding. Cook about 2 minutes on each side or until golden. Transfer to a sheet pan. Repeat until all of trout has been cooked, if more butter is needed, have more ready, but not from the specified reserved amount.
• When all of the fish has been cooked, put it on the sheet, cover loosely with foil, and put into a 175 degree oven to keep warm.
• Put the cup of butter and the almonds into a saucepan with the remaining teaspoon salt. Cook moderately until lightly browned. Stir in the lemon juice and Worchestershire sauce. Cook two minutes. Remove from heat and stir in parsley. Serve over fillets with lemon wedges on warm plates.

TROUT AMANDINE

Steps:

• Sprinkle salt and pepper in the cavities of the trout.
• In shallow bowl, mix eggs and half and half.
• Dip trout in egg mixture, then roll in flour.
• In small skillet, saute the almonds in 2 t butter until light brown.
• Add lemon juice and tarragon.
• Remove from heat; keep warm.
• In large skillet, on med heat, combine oil and remaining butter.
• Fry the trout for 8 minutes, turn and fry another 8 minutes.
• Place trout on serving platter; top with almond mixture.

BAKED TROUT AMANDINE

Steps:

• Put the buttermilk in a shallow bowl. In another shallow bowl, mix breadcrumbs, parsley, mustard powder, salt and pepper. Dip the trouts in buttermilk, letting drain the excess , then put in the breadcrumbs flipping them to coat well (shake to remove the excess).
• Put the trout fillets on a baking sheet that has oiled foil on it. Sprinkle almonds on them and drizzle with butter. Cook in a preheated oven of 450 F 8 to 12 minutes per inch of thickness or until it flakes easily with a fork.

TROUT AMANDINE

Steps:

• Sprinkle salt and pepper in the cavity of each trout. In a shallow bowl, beat eggs and cream. Dip trout in egg mixture, then roll in flour. In a small skillet over low heat, saute the almonds in 2 tablespoons butter until lightly browned. Add lemon juice an tarragon; heat through. Remove from the heat and keep warm., Meanwhile, in a skillet over medium heat, combine oil and remaining butter. Fry the trout for 8-10 minutes; carefully turn and fry 8 minutes longer or until it flakes easily with a fork. Top with almond mixture.