Cold Poached Trout With Horseradish Sauce Recipes

COLD POACHED TROUT WITH HORSERADISH SAUCE

Steps:

• Bring enough vermouth or wine to rolling boil to cover trout halfway. Add trout and return to rolling boil. Turn off heat; cover pan and allow trout to cook in hot liquid 12 to 14 minutes. Remove from pan and cool. When cool enough to handle remove skin of the fish.
• Combine sour cream, horseradish and dill weed for dressing.
• Trout may be served cool or cold with sour cream dressing. Garnish with cucumber slices, if desired.

COLD POACHED TROUT

Steps:

• Wash trout in cold water. Blot dry. Slash outside flesh diagonally, 2 or 3 cuts to each fish.
• Cut lemons in half. Using 1/2 lemon for each trout, gently rub with cut side of lemon, squeezing as you rub. Season inside and out with salt & pepper. Sprinkle 1 tsp rosemary leaves in the cavity of each fish.
• Bring wine, stock, butter, and onion to simmer in shallow skillet or roasting pan. Add fish and simmer 12-15 minutes. Cover and refrigerate, in pan, 1 hour.
• Remove fish carefully from liquid. Lift off skin. Store on bed of paper towels on platter covered with foil or plastic wrap.
• Refrigerate liquid separately.
• Just before serving, arrange trout on beds of lettuce on individual serving plates.
• Pour over each fish 1 teaspoon of poaching liquid. Serve with mustard mayonnaise.

POACHED TROUT

Steps:

• Simmer 8 cups water, 2 cups white vinegar, 9 peppercorns, 1 fresh bay leaf, and 1 carrot and 1 leek (each sliced) for 10 minutes in a large straight-sided skillet. Add 2 butterflied whole trout. Simmer for 10 minutes, until opaque, and transfer to a platter with a large spatula. Whisk 4 tablespoons poaching liquid with 5 tablespoons olive oil. Drizzle over trout.