Trout With Fiddlehead Ferns Recipes

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:

• Before you're ready to cook cut about 1/8-inch off the thick ends if they look brown and rinse the fern shoots thoroughly to get rid of the brown fuzzy chaff that clings to their sides. Dry the shoots thoroughly before cooking by first spinning them in a lettuce spinner and then patting them with paper towels. Melt butter in a pan at medium heat. Add garlic, parsley and fiddleheads to the pan. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Saute for 5 minutes or until they are done.

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.