Brook Trout And Fiddleheads Recipes

Steps:

• Season both sides of the filets with salt and pepper and lightly dust with flour. Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Place the filets, skin-side down, and cook until the skin is brown and crispy, 3-5 minutes. Carefully turn with a spatula and cook for another 30 seconds.
• Squeeze the lemon over the fish and add the parsley. As the sauce begins to bubble up, spoon ample butter over each filet and serve immediately.

Steps:

• Boil 6 cups of water in a large sauce pan.
• Add fiddleheads, cover and set on stove to cook on medium for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, place bacon strips in a large cold cast iron fry pan.
• On medium-low heat, cook bacon until crisp.
• Crumble bacon and set aside.
• Remove bacon grease from pan and save.
• Clean cast iron pan thoroughly.
• Set aside.
• Place flour in a bag.
• Place washed trout in the bag 2 at a time and shake until fish are coated in flour.
• Place cast iron fry pan over medium heat.
• Add bacon grease and heat for 30 sec.
• Add trout and cook one one side for three minutes until crisp.
• Turn and cook other side for three minutes.
• Drain fiddleheads.
• Place trout on a hot platter and serve.
• Serve fiddleheads with the choices of butter, cider vinegar and crumbled bacon on the side.
• A great meal with a loaf of peasant bread and a pot of hot tea.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.
• Spread about half of the margarine over the whole trout and inside the cavity. Combine the flour, salt and pepper; coat the inside and outside of the trout with the mixture.
• Melt remaining margarine in a large skillet over medium heat. Lightly saute the fiddleheads until just tender. Season with salt, pepper and tarragon. Add the lemon juice and white wine, and cook for one minute. Transfer the contents of the fiddlehead pan to a bowl, and mix with egg and bread crumbs. Stuff the mixture into the cavity of the trout, and place it on the greased baking sheet.
• Bake uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the fish flakes easily with a fork. Serve immediately.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook fiddlehead ferns in the boiling water until barely tender, 7 to 10 minutes; drain.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in the prepared fiddlehead ferns, garlic, and the salt and pepper. Cook and stir until ferns are tinged lightly brown and tender, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and sprinkle with lemon juice.