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Grilled trout with green asparagus and roasted potatos

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Been some time for me to make a new post here, but it’s that time again, fortunately. I had a nice workout on Stand Up Paddling yesterday, and wanted to enjoy the good weather a little more, so I fired up the old OTP again. Bought some fresh rainbow trouts and was feeling confident. Trout is usually one of my favorites, eventhough there are often a lot of fishbones that stuck to the meat and end up in my mouth, but …. it doesn’t affect taste, and that’s good!

Ingredients

  • 2 fresh rainbow trouts
  • 500 grams (1 pound) of precooked little potatoes
  • 500 grams of green asparagus
  • fresh dille
  • about 50-75 ml of extra vergine olive oil
  • 1 lemon
  • salt and pepper to taste.

First the preparation.

Take 2 teaspoons of chopped dille and add the 75 ml of olive oil. Add a nice bit of salt and a little pepper and mix well into a nice marinade.

So after mixing it well, just add about 2 tablespoons of this marinade to the asparagus and to the potatoes as well, and mix it through.

Now start with the trouts. They were bought cleaned, so I just washed them out a little with fresh water and dried the skin with a towel. Now I’ve cutted into the sides a few times with a large kitchen knife and added salt and pepper to both sides and the inside as well.

After salting and peppering it, I’ve added 2-3 slices of lemon and a few branches of dille in there, before putting it into my fish grate for the BBQ.

Now, I’ve prepared everything I need, I just need to fire up the Q and pre-heat the oven on about 50 degrees celcius. (you’ll know why later on)

I’ve used a grill pan over direct coals to grill the potatoes in about 20 minutes, while turning them over every 5-10 minutes, giving them a nice grill mark style cook, and did the same with the asparagus, except a lot shorter, of course.

The trout only needs about 5-6 minutes per side, but while doing that, I’ve kept the potatoes and asparagus warm in the pre-heated oven. (told you I’d explain later 😉 )

Served and ready to be enjoyed!

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Trout with orange and herbs

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Time for a fishy weekend. I’ve decided that 2017 will be the summer of more fish from the grill. I was at a fresh fish market yesterday and I was getting so excited! All great stuff! But … Start simple. Trout. I decided to ask for 2 nice trouts, but the one he brought up was huge. Not a rainbow trout, but a decent big animal that has been caught and killed. Nice!

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Now for a good recipe. Lemon would be to easy, but a slight bit of acid will do good, I guess, so orange it is.

For the marinade, I’ve used the following.

  • 1 orange
  • a handful of fresh dill
  • a handful of fresh parsley
  • a red onion
  • fennel

To start with this, grate the side of the orange, but only the orange part, not the bitter white, in a bowl. Add the juice of the orange as well. Now I’ve used the blender, but you can do it manually too, to chop up the parsley and dill. Bring to taste with a good dash of pepper and salt.

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Now stir and set aside. Get the salmon and clean it out with some fresh water. Open it up and put a few good spoons full of this delicious marinade in it.

Now chop up the red onion and the fennel into rings and parts. Stuff them in there too, and put the fish in the fish grate for the BBQ. Put it in the fridge for some hours to let the flavours get into the fish. (Don’t forget to put a plate or something under it, otherwise your entire fridge will be wet from the moist and fish fluids. Just a tip.

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So after a few hours in the fridge, heat up your grill, ready for direct heat. I’ve done some vegetables first until they were soft and moved them to the side table. Then it was trout-time.

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Put a good amount of olive oil on both sides, to prevent real burning. Direct grilling for ab0ut 20 minutes, in my case about 25, cause the beast was BIG! then it was a matter of serving. I took an oven dish, since my plates are not big enough …. It was an 800 grams trout…. but loved every gram of it. Was great with carrots and some other veggies.

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Definitely worth a re-run!