Pan-Fried Rainbow Trout with Pecans and Brown Butter and Swiss Chard with Serrano Chile Vinegar

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Total Time:
1 hr 30 min
Prep
1 hr 0 min
Cook
30 min
Yield:
4 servings
Level:
Intermediate
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Ingredients

  • 2 cups rice flour
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
  • 3 large eggs
  • 3 tablespoons milk
  • 2 cups white cornmeal
  • 4 (8 to 10 ounces each) whole rainbow trout, scaled and gutted
  • 6 tablespoons vegetable or peanut oil
  • 2 lemons
  • 2 sticks unsalted butter
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
  • Sauteed Swiss Chard with Red Onion and Serrano Chile Vinegar, recipe follows

Directions

Place rice flour in a medium bowl and season with salt and pepper. Mix eggs and milk in a large bowl and season with salt and pepper. Place cornmeal in a medium bowl and season with salt and pepper.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Open up and cut the trout, diagonally, into 2 fillets. Season both the flesh and skin sides of the fillet with salt and pepper, to taste, and then dip each fillet into rice flour, then egg mixture, then cornmeal. Repeat with remaining trout.

Heat 3 tablespoons of the oil in a large skillet until almost smoking. Saute 4 fillets at a time until golden brown on both sides. Repeat with the remaining oil. Transfer to a large baking sheet and repeat with the remaining 2 trout. Place in the oven and bake for 5 to 6 minutes until just cooked through.

Zest and juice both lemons, separately reserving the zest and the juice. Set aside.

While the trout is baking, melt the butter in a nonstick saute pan over medium-high heat. Watching carefully and lowering the heat if necessary, allow the butter to foam and turn golden brown. Immediately add the lemon juice, zest and salt and pepper, to taste.

While the butter is still foaming, add the pecans and parsley. Do not allow the butter to burn or it will be unusable.

Place 2 fillets on each of 4 dinner plates and pour the Pecan-Brown Butter over the top. Serve alongside the Sauteed Swiss Chard with Red Onion and Serrano Chile Vinegar.

Sauteed Swiss Chard with Red Onion and Serrano Chile Vinegar:

  • 2 1/2 pounds Swiss chard
  • 1/2 pound slab bacon, cut into small dice
  • 2 medium red onions, halved and thinly sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper
  • 1/4 cup Serrano Chile Vinegar, recipe follows

Tear Swiss chard leaves from thick white stalks, discard the stalks and coarsely chop leaves, set aside.

Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and cook until golden brown and fat as rendered. Remove bacon to a plate with a slotted spoon. Add the onions and cook in the rendered fat until soft. Add the garlic and cook for an additional minute. Add the Swiss chard, season with salt and pepper and stir to coat the leaves in the fat. Cook until the leaves have completely wilted. Add the bacon back to the pan. Add the vinegar and continue cooking for 2 minutes. Serve with additional vinegar on the side.

Serrano Chile Vinegar:

Bring chiles, vinegar, and a teaspoon of salt to a boil in a medium nonreactive saucepan. Remove from heat, pour into a bowl, cover and let steep for at least 2 hours or overnight at room temperature. Strain through a fine strainer into a bowl or glass jar.

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  • on March 05, 2011

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    This was relatively easy to prepare and the butter pecan sauce was delicious. Trout is a rather bland fish and this preparation dressed it up nicely.

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  • on July 03, 2008

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    This recipe was easy and simply delicious. I made it for my husband and myself. This was equivalent to fine dining at a restaurant.

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  • on June 02, 2008

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    wonderful! with breaks the prep took several hours. only needed to use 1c rice flour and 1c corn meal (white or yellow makes no difference using more is just a waste. used sliced almonds instead of pecans, and was even better than expected. used 1 stick butter, as two seemed insane, equally as good and rich. the chard was the best part of the meal, who doesn't love bacon. as for the vinegar, i used 2 peppers thinking it would be too spicy, i was wrong. the vinegar really mellows it out, will def use 4 next time. also thought 2c ww vinegar was too expensive so i used 1c distilled white vinegar and 1c cheap white wine, totally fantastic.

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