How delicious to cook trout on the grill

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The article will tell you how to cook delicious grilled trout. It will reveal several culinary secrets that will help you get a wonderful dish from this fish at the exit.

A little about the fish itself

Trout is a fish of the salmon family. It can be of several types: big-headed, silvery, rainbow, golden, Caucasian, Sevan (a unique species, found only in the Armenian high-mountain lake Sevan), marble, flat-headed, etc. It lives in shallow streams, freshwater lakes, rivers and seas. Trout is also bred in fish farms for valuable meat and caviar.

In appearance, trout are very different from each other. But for the most part, these are fish with a body length of 30-40 cm and a weight of up to 500-600 grams. Although in nature there are individuals weighing up to 5-7 or more kilograms! Its color depends on living conditions and feeding.

How to choose trout

There are a number of signs by which you can determine the type and quality of fish, but in the case of trout, this is difficult to do even for specialists. Therefore, we trust the suppliers. The main thing is to buy a fresh or chilled product. By the way, although trout is traditionally called red fish, the color of its meat canbe white, pink, dark pink or red. It depends on the species, habitat and food of this salmon representative. The stores sell artificially grown trout, the color of its meat is dark pink or red. Although specimens caught in natural reservoirs are more valuable.

What can be cooked with trout

Trout is an expensive delicacy, its presence on the table speaks of the we alth and good taste of the owners. It is a fatty and very tasty fish. From it you can cook many wonderful dishes, nutritious and he althy. It is s alted, marinated, boiled, baked, fried. Grilled trout has excellent taste. Below are some interesting recipes.

Grilled trout - a classic cooking method

This dish uses a whole fish. It needs to be prepared: cut off the head, carefully gut, wash under running water and dry with paper towels. Grate the carcass with coarse s alt inside and out and sprinkle with the juice of a quarter of a lemon. Leave to "rest" for 10 minutes. Then grease both sides with vegetable oil and place on the grill (the setting should be as hot as possible).

Grilled trout cooks quickly, just 10 minutes is enough to brown it on each side.

Spices and marinade

To give the dish a richer taste, masters recommend holding the fish in the marinade or rubbing it with a mixture of seasonings before frying.

Trout goes well withlemon, ginger, parsley, dill, cilantro, basil, black pepper, coriander, mustard seeds. You can rub the prepared carcass with a mixture of Italian herbs and s alt before cooking or cook the seasoning yourself. To do this, mix the ingredients to taste and grind them in a mortar. After a 10-minute "rest", the fish is lubricated with vegetable oil (olive oil works well) and grilled.

Grilled marinated trout is very tasty. The recipe is very simple. You will need:

• 2 large trout steaks (palm-sized and 3-4 cm thick);
• half a lemon;
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• 2 tablespoons of white wine;
• 2-3 tablespoons of any vegetable oil (preferably sunflower or olive oil);
• 1 level teaspoon seasonings to taste of the hostess (Italian herbs or a mixture of coriander, allspice, mustard seeds are great);
• an incomplete teaspoon of s alt.

Grate the steaks well with s alt and spices, place in a container, squeeze out lemon juice, pour soy sauce and wine, leave in a cold place for 1-1, 5 hours. Remove the steaks from the marinade, pat dry with a paper towel to remove excess liquid, brush with vegetable oil and fry on both sides on a well-heated grill (5-7 minutes on each side).

Trout is also cooked on a grill pan.

With greens

Mistresses note one more recipe. You can cook trout on the grill withgreenery. To do this, the belly of the prepared carcass should be stuffed with coarsely chopped fresh herbs, put 3 thin slices of lemon and a finely chopped clove of garlic there. Grate the top of the carcass with any suitable spices and s alt and leave to "rest" for a couple of hours.

After the fish, grease with sunflower oil, wrap in foil and place on the grill. After 25-30 minutes, the dish is ready!

Now you know how to grill a trout carcass or steak. Bon appetit!