Walnut Dressed Trout, Butternut Squash Rosti with Mushroom Sauce
Servings
Main – Serves 2
Ready In:
50 mins
Chef Tip: Rainbow trout is one of the most delicious oily fish! There are small bones in the fillet and so make sure you use tweezers to pick then out before cooking the fillets.
Inroduction
A show stopping walnut dressed winter warmer rainbow trout recipe, making an impressive looking dinner party dish! A creamy mushroom sauce is drizzled over a seasonal butternut squash rosti, with the simply cooked trout sitting on top.
Ingredients
Serves 2
2 Trout Fillet
2 tbsp Olive Oil
Butternut Squash Rosti
½ Butternut Squash
4-5 tbps Olive Oil
1 Small Brown Onion
1 Garlic Clove
8g Rosemary
½ tbsp Tomato Purée
3 tbsp Self-Raising Flour
½ tsp Paprika
1 Egg
Salt & Pepper
Walnut Dressing
55g Walnuts (finely chopped)
1 tsp Caster Sugar
3 tbsp Olive Oil
3 tbsp Organic Rapeseed Oil
2 tbsp Red Wine Vinegar
Mushroom Sauce
10g Butter
1 Shallot
200g Chesnutt Mushroom
150ml White Wine
100ml Stock
100ml Double Cream
10g Fresh Parsley (leaves picked and finely chopped)
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1 – Make Butternut Squash Rosti Mix
Peel and grate the butternut squash. Add the grated squash to a clean tea towel and squeeze out the excess moisture into a bowl. Liquid should seep out of the tea towel. Discard of this liquid. Add the grated squash to a mixing bowl.
Peel and dice the onion. Heat a frying pan and add the onion. Cook the onion for 5 minutes until softened.
Whilst the onion is cooking, peel and finely chop the garlic. Pick the leaves of the rosemary and finely chop. Add the chopped garlic, rosemary and tomato purée to the softened onion and cook for 2 minutes.
Add the cooked onion to the bowl with the grated squash and mix to combine the ingredients.
Add the flour and mix. Add the egg and mix to combine everything. Season the mix with salt and pepper.
Add flour to your hands and shape into x4 large flat rostis.
Step 2 – Cook Butternut Squash Rosti
Heat oven to 140C
Heat a large non-stick frying pan up and add a thin layer of oil. When the pan is hot, add two rosti and cook on one side for 3-4 minutes, flip the rosti and cook on the other side for 3-4 minutes. Repeat this process with the remaining rostis.
Add the fried rostis to a baking tray and put in the oven to continue to cook whilst you finish cooking the rest of the meal. Make sure the oven isn’t too hot and so the rostis do not burn.
Step 3 – Make Walnut Dressing
Add the chopped walnuts, sugar and olive oil to a small frying pan. Fry until the walnuts are lightly toasted.
Remove from the heat and stir through the rapeseed oil and red wine vinegar. Season with salt and pepper and leave to one side until you are ready to plate up.
Step 4 – Make Mushroom Sauce
Peel and finely dice the shallot. Add the butter to a frying pan and cook the shallot for 5 minutes until softened.
Whilst the shallot is cooking, slice the chestnut mushrooms. Add the sliced mushrooms to the softened shallot and cook for 5 minutes until the cooking liquid from the mushrooms has evaporated.
Add the wine and reduce by half. Add the stock and reduce by half. Add the double cream and simmer the sauce down until it has thickened and the creamy sauce coats the back of a spoon. Add the chopped parsley. Keep the sauce warm until ready to serve.
Step 5 – Cook Trout
Slice each trout fillet in half.
Heat a large non-stick frying pan and add the oil. Once the pan is piping hot, add the trout fillets to the pan skin side down.
Cook the skin side of the fillet for 4-5 minutes, until you can see the sides of the flesh begin to turn opaque. Flip the fish and continue to cook it for 1-2 minutes and remove the pan from the heat.
Step 6 – Plate Up
Add the mushroom sauce to the base of the plate. Top with a rosti in the middle. Add the fried fish fillets to the rosti. Drizzle the walnut dressing around the fish and serve immediately.