Fresh Trout Florentine Recipes

GRILLED TROUT FLORENTINE

Steps:

• Preheat grill.
• heat the olive oil in a frying pan over med-high heat.
• Saute (stir fry) the green onions until they start to soften.
• Add sherry, spinach, and pine nuts. Mix well.
• Cook an additional 2 minutes until the spinach wilts.
• Remove from heat, add bread crumbs, milk, and lemon juice. Mix well.
• Wash and pat dry the trout.
• Stuff each trout with 1/4 of the spinach mixture.
• Tie with kitchen string to secure the stuffing. Set aside.
• Combine the wine, pepper, and butter in a sauce pan and bring to a boil.
• Cook a minute or so to evaporate the alcohol.
• Place the trout of the hot grill.
• Bast with the wine mixture occasionally.
• Grill for 2 - 2 1/2 minutes per side. (the meat should flake easily at the touch of a fork.).

FRESH TROUT FLORENTINE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2. Lightly coat a 9x12 inch baking pan with safflower oil.
• 3. In a medium skillet over medium-high heat, saute green onion in olive oil and sherry until soft.
• 4. Add chopped spinach and pine nuts, and cook until spinach has wilted (2 minutes).
• 5. Remove from heat.
• 6. Add bread crumbs, milk and lemon juice and mix well.
• 7. Wash and pat trout dry, inside and out.
• 8. Stuff cavity of each trout with one fourth of the spinach mixture.
• 9. Cut 4 sheets of parchment and place 1 trout on each. Set aside.
• 10. In the same skillet combine wine, pepper and butter.
• 11. Bring to a boil over high heat, and cook until alcohol has evaporated (2 minutes).
• 12. Pour equal amounts of wine mixture over trout and seal parchment packets.
• 13. Place packets on prepared baking sheets and bake for 12 minutes.
• 14. Serve hot.

BAKED FRESH RAINBOW TROUT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish with about 1 teaspoon olive oil.
• Place trout in the prepared baking dish and coat with remaining olive oil. Season the inside and outside of fish with dill, thyme, and salt. Stuff each fish with onion slices; grind pepper over the top. Place 1 lemon slice on each fish.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes; add water to dish. Continue baking until fish flake easily with a fork, about 10 minutes more.

FISH FLORENTINE

Steps:

• You will want get the potatoes on first as these take the longest.
• Potatoes.
• In a medium bowl mix potatoes with oil and season with salt and pepper. Place in roasting pan with garlic cloves and cook in 200c oven for 30-40 minutes.
• Serve potatoes and garlic on the side and sprinkle with mint.
• For the Fish.
• In a saucepan bring some water to a boil and add spinach, for fresh cook until just wilted, for frozen cook until thawed, drain, let it cool and then squeeze excess liquid out.
• In a pan combine oil and butter and heat, add onions and cook until soft, add mushrooms and garlic, cook until mushrooms are slightly browned and soft set to one side.
• For the Sauce.
• Heat milk in a pan, add cayenne, nutmeg and paprika. When milk is almost boiling mix a little water with cornflour and pour into milk, stirring until mixture thickens.
• Add the cheeses, reserving the few tablespoons of Parmesan for the top, stir until melted.
• Poaching fish.
• In a large pan mix wine with herbs, add fish and poach for about 8 minutes until fish flakes but is not falling apart.
• Assembly.
• Mix mushroom and onion mixture into spinach, spoon into the bottom of a casserole dish covering the bottom.
• Lay fish fillets on top of the spinach, Pour the sauce over fillets, sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese.
• Grill until browned on top and bubbling.
• While I am grilling fish I put my potatoes over low heat on stove top to keep warm.

FISH FLORENTINE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Spray 11x7-inch (2-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. Place fish in single layer in dish.
• In medium bowl, stir together remaining ingredients except lemon wedges. Spread over fish to edge of dish.
• Bake uncovered about 30 minutes or until light brown. Serve with lemon wedges.