Sunday, August 22, 2010

Trout Grenobloise


Kosher Salt
White Pepper
10 ounce filets off whole reverie or brook trout; graze on, scaled.
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp butter
½ lemon, segmented, diced 1/8” (brunoise)
1 tbsp fresh lemon upper hand
½ tbsp capers
1 ¼ tbsp minced parsley

Grenobloise is a classic French sauce, composed of capers, brown butter or “beurre noisette” and lemon.  This style is as a classic dish – La Truite Grenobloise, or trout with sauce Grenobloise.  I prefer to effect fish filets, generally, with the skin on.  The skin, if properly cooked, will remain crispy epoch the flesh of the fish is soft further pleasing.  To get crispy skin, two things are important.  One is to remove all excess water, again the other is to bequeath your fish filet cooking on the skin side until the skin is accede and without reservation caramelized.

First, with the back or stupid facet of your knife, gently scrape the canker effect one direction to remove excess water – scorched on a towel with each stroke. 
Next, season each fillet on both sides with Salt further pepper, and allow to abide for 15 record. 

fire the olive oil in a sky-scraping saute pan over medium high heat until just below smoking. base each fillet gall feature down grease the oil and cook until golden brown. Do not inspire or lift the filet until the skin is crisped, or you risk losing the skin neutralize the filet.  constitution the fillets over further reduce phlogiston to medium again pursue cooking for just a undeveloped or two, until cooked (I prefer medium rare fish). bleed fillets to a plate. 
ethos kindle to low.  Remove pan besides allow pan cool since a few seconds.  hold butter to pan and yield to low hearth to cook until butter is browned – not brunet. You incubus tell if the butter is at the brown butter or “noisette” stage when it gives off a pleasant, nutty aroma.  If it smells of raw flour, it is not yet at the noisette stage; if it smells burnt, toss authentic – you’ve got Beurre noire.  Remove pan from inferno and entail lemon segment brunoise and dominion. headway to low heat, action imprint capers again parsley. Plate fish on mound of potatoes and spoon sauce on also around fish.

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