Oven Baked Trout
This oven baked trout with a tangy Mandarin-Herb Marinade is a delicious and easy way to get your seafood fix. The trout is baked to perfection with a crispy skin, and the Mandarin-Herb Marinade gives it a zesty flavor that will tantalize your taste buds. Serve this dish with a side of rice and vegetables for a complete meal.
Ingredients
For the Mandarin-Herb marinade:
- 500 g of fresh trout for us it was 2 fish, already cleaned, with the heads attached, which we kept
- Coarse sea salt
- Ground black pepper
- Herbs rosemary, lemon thyme, simple thyme, sage, marjoram, parsley
- 2 cloves of crushed garlic
- 1 mandarin
- 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard
For the stuffing:
- 1/2 carrot
- 1/2 stalk of celery
- 1 shallot
- 1/2 leek
- Pinch of ground pepper
- Pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
For the topping:
- 1/2 carrot
- 1/2 stalk of celery
- 1/2 leek
- 50-80 g of broccoli
- How do you make it?
- Preheat the oven to 200° C.
Instructions
- First of all, wash the inside of the already cleaned trout very well, pat it dry and cover with coarse sea salt.
- To make the marinade, simply mix all of the ingredients mentioned (mix the juice from 1 mandarin, the soy sauce and mustard and then add pepper, herbs and crushed garlic). Top the fish with the marinade and leave it for 10 min while preparing the veggies for stuffing and covering.
- Stuff the prepared trout with various herbs and vegetables
- Peel and slice in long and thin pieces 1/2 of a carrot, 1 shallot, 1/2 a leek and 1/2 stalk of celery. Melt some butter over medium high heat in a pan and fry it with a pinch of salt and pepper for a few minutes until the vegetables become nice and soft, about 5 minutes. At the end, add 2 tablespoons of cream to make it nice and smooth.
- Put the marinated fish into a baking tray covered with baking paper. Stuff the fish with the fried vegetables.
- For the topping, take the other half of the carrot, celery and leek and slice them into discs. Add chopped broccoli. Use the leftover marinate to moisten the vegetables for topping, add a little olive oil and place into the center of the oven for 30 min.
- After the fish is done, you can use juices from the baking pan in order to make a sauce by adding some extra cream and mustard.
- Serve with rice or mashed potatoes.
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Notes
If you're looking for a delicious and healthy way to cook trout, look no further than oven baking! This cooking method is simple, yet yields delicious and flaky results.