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Serves 4
Ingredients
- 600 g rainbow trout fillet
- 2 radicchios
- 100 g butter
- 50 g clarified butter
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2 sprigs of thyme
- 100 ml red wine
- 80 ml honey
- 100 ml balsamic vinegar
- 200 g cherries
- 100 g cooked broad beans
- 50 g chanterelles
- 1 bunch of coriander flowers
- Salt and pepper
Preparation
Cherry sauce
1. Wash and halve the cherries, and remove the seeds.
2. In a frying pan, heat 25 g of butter.
3. Crush 2 garlic cloves and add them to the pan with 1 sprig of thyme and 1 spring of rosemary. Fry for 2 to 3 minutes.
4. Add the cherries and fry for another minute.
5. Add the wine, half of the vinegar and the honey. Cook over a low heat until the sauce has reduced and thickened.
6. Add 25 g of butter and season with salt and pepper.
Rainbow trout
1. Dry the rainbow trout with a paper towel, cut it into 150 g pieces and lightly season these with salt and pepper.
2. Fry the trout in clarified butter with the skin facing down. Gently press the fish into the pan to brown the skin evenly.
3. Add 25 g of butter, and the remaining garlic, thyme and rosemary to the pan.
4. Pour the hot butter from the pan over the fish meat for 2-3 minutes.
5. Cut the radicchio into halves or quarters.
6. Put the fish to the side, add the radicchio to the pan and fry it with salt.
8. Once the radicchio has slightly softened, add the balsamic vinegar and honey.
9. In a skillet, heat 25 g of the butter.
10. Clean the chanterelles and peel the broad beans before adding them to the skillet with a crushed garlic clove. Fry them until the mushrooms are gently browned and season.
11. Plate your ingredients together and garnish the plate with cilantro flowers or your favourite herbs.
Rainbow trout
- The Rainbow trout in Europe are native to the North Pacific Basin. They were first bred in captivity in 1870 and are now well domesticated all around the world.
- Rainbow trout can have two different fates when they are born. They can either stay in the river for their whole life, or go to the sea to grow faster. This way, a population of trout always stays in the sea, so if there is a problem in the river (flood or drought for example), some trout will survive.
- Writer Ernest Hemingway was a big fan of fly fishing for rainbow trout. He wrote short stories and articles about them.
- Females produce from 700 to 4,000 eggs per spawning event.