Portuguese Style Trout
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Ingredients
4 trout
250ml white wine
2 gloves garlic - sliced
2 bay leaves
125g flour
16 pieces of proscuitto
125ml olive oil
100g butter
1 lemon
½ cup flat-leaf parsley - chopped
Prep
Gut the fish (or ask the nice people at the trout farm to do it for you)
Clean the inside
Make Marinate - wine, garlic, bay leaves, salt & pepper
Place trout in the marinade for at least ½ hour
Remove from marinade, dry trout on kitchen paper, and sprinkle with the flour
Reserve a cup marinade & set aside
Wrap the trout in proscuitto, overlapping as you go
Cooking
Heat the oil & half the butter in a pan until it ripples
Reduce to a medium heat then add the trout and cook for 4 minutes each side or until the proscuitto is crispy then remove from pan
Leave about 2 tablespoons of residue in the pan
Add the remaining butter, reserved marinade, juice of 1 lemon & the parsley
Boil for a few minutes, reduce by half
Pour over the fish & serve on a Bean Salad, Mash, Rice or Polenta
Enjoy!
*Thanks to Jackie Ashe from Deliciously Jackie
