Whole Grilled Trout

I had a whole (headless) trout in the freezer and went in search of recipes that would fit with what I had on hand.  Nearly all of them included fresh herbs and I had few so I decided to adapt a recipe from the Wicked Noodle called Whole Grilled Trout with Fresh Herbs, Garlic and Lemon.  Check Kristy's site for her original recipe.  I had fresh garlic, rosemary and lemon so I ended up with this recipe. 

Whole Grilled Trout with Dried and Fresh Herbs and Lemon - Adapted from Wicked Noodle

Ingredients:

1 trout, boned and de-headed

1 tsp. dried parsley, minced

1 tsp. dried basil, minced

1½ tsp. fresh rosemary, minced

1 clove garlic, minced

¼ t. kosher salt

¼ t. freshly ground black pepper

3 lemon slices

Directions:

The recipe says to mix together the herbs and garlic, but I added them each individually and evenly inside the trout starting with the dried herbs to get them against the flesh for re-hydrating.  I wrapped it in plastic and refrigerated about three hours. 

Oil the cooking grate and preheat the grill.  Sprinkle fish with salt & pepper inside and out.  Grill over high heat (on my grill) with lid closed for 6 minutes on side one carefully flip and cook 4 minutes on side two or until fish is cooked through (135* on the Thermapen).

Carefully remove fish from the grill, sprinkle with more chopped parsley and lemon slices to garnish, and serve  (I didn’t add garnishes).

For a side, I roasted some russet and red potatoes using the same herbs on the red ones as went in the fish and for the russets, some Wolfe Rub-Citrus, that I'd mixed up for my upcoming BBQ cook.

I liked both potatoes but the herbed one had more flavor as I expected it would.  One thing I learned about the potatoes – don’t cook them skin side down as it burns easily.

I split the trout in half for Madison and I and kept the lemon slices for my plated shot. 

I had to add a little more salt, but otherwise wouldn’t change a thing for the fish and would use the recipe again, hopefully with all fresh herbs - I added The Wicked Noodle to my reading list.

Madison’s eating habits are really strange, consisting mostly of cereal, BBQ, sweets, and fish, which is a big surprise.   She scarfed up the fish and potatoes like it was her last meal and after she was done, I let her know she liked trout (most folks in this family don’t like the stronger tasting fish so I didn't tell her ahead of time).  As can be seen from my previous posts, we ate plenty of fish while Bev was gone.

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Have a great day and thanks for stopping by Almost Heaven South.

Larry

4/15/13 meal date