Trout Filets La Zug Recipes

TROUT FILETS à LA ZUG

Steps:

• Season the trout filets with salt and pepper, fry first on the side with the skin, then fry the other side, 1 - 1 ½ minutes each. Remove and keep warm.
• Melt the butter in a flat pan and braise shallots and herbs slightly. Deglaze with white wine, add Bouillon cube, and reduce the liquid slightly while cooking. Now add the cream, cook thoroughly. Pour the sauce over the fish.
• Serve with wild rice, fine noodles or boiled potatoes.

BAKED TROUT FILLETS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Arrange trout fillets in a large baking dish.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir green onion, parsley, and garlic until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in mushrooms and continue to cook until just softened, 1 to 2 minutes more. Add white wine, lemon juice, salt, and cayenne pepper. Remove from heat and gently stir in artichoke hearts; pour mixture over trout.
• Bake in preheated oven until fish flakes easily with a fork, about 20 minutes. Remove baking dish from oven and scatter tomatoes over fish.
• Set oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler.
• Return baking dish to oven and broil until fish is browned, 1 to 2 minutes more.

TRUITE À LA CREME ZUGOISE (TROUT IN HERBED CREAM SAUCE)

Steps:

• In a heavy skillet melt the butter over moderate heat. When the foam subsides, add the shallots or scallions. Stir and cook for 5 minutes or until they are soft but not brown. Stir in the parsley, chervil, thyme and tarragon, then pour in the wine and mix. Remove the skillet from the heat.Pat the fillets dry and sprinkle on both sides with the salt and pepper. Place them on top of the herbs in the skillet in one layer. Press a piece of foil gently but firmly over the fish. Return the skillet to moderate heat and simmer for about five minutes until the fillets flake easily when prodded gently with a fork. Transfer the fillets to a heated platter, cover loosely with foil to keep warm while preparing the sauce.Bring to a boil and stir the liquid in skillet until it has reduced to a thin film that barely covers the bottom of the pan. Reduce heat and stir in cream and any liquid that has accumulated around the fish. Stir and cook until sauce is thick enough to coat a whisk heavily. (About 5 to 10 minutes). Taste for seasoning, then pour sauce over trout and serve at once. Freshly boiled new potatoes are traditionally served with this trout dish.

TRUITE A LA CREME ZUGOISE (TROUT IN HERBED CREAM SAUCE)

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large, heavy skillet over moderate heat.
• Add shallots and cook, stirring frequently, until soft but not brown, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in parsley, chervil, thyme and tarragon.
• Add wine and mix well.
• Remove from heat.
• Sprinkle trout with salt and pepper.
• Arrange on top of herbs in skillet in a single layer, overlapping slightly if necessary.
• Cut a circle of foil large enough to fit the skillet and press it gently but firmly on top of the fish.
• Return skillet to moderate heat and simmer for about 5 minutes, or until cooked through.
• Remove fish to a platter and cover with fresh foil to keep warm.
• Bring liquid in skillet to a boil over high heat, stirring or whisking constantly.
• Cook until reduced to a thin film that barely covers bottom of pan.
• Reduce heat to moderate.
• Stir in cream and any liquid accumulated from the fish.
• Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until thick enough to coat the whisk heavily, 5-10 minutes.
• Cover trout with sauce.

LEMON TROUT ALMONDINE

Steps:

• Sprinkle trout with salt and pepper.
• Dust the fish filets in the flour.
• Heat the olive oil and butter on medium high heat.
• Add fish filets and cook until light brown on both sides.
• Remove from pan and cover to keep warm.
• Return pan to heat and add 1 T butter.
• Add the almonds and saute, then add the fresh lemon juice.
• Heat it through, then spoon over the fish filets.
• Serve with additional lemon wedges.