How to cook trout

[lostdog]

Whats your favorite trout recipe?
I'll give mine later.

[Spartagain]

butterfly the trout. Clean with water. Spread margarine, worcestershire sauce, and lemon pepper on, Stuff with chopped onions, lime, lemon, and more seasoning of your choice. wrap in aluminum foil, barbeque on med heat until trout meat is flaky.
tastes tasty.
(used only for trout out of the Gorge, and stockers out of the river.)

[Cary]

My favorite trout recipe is to toss out the freezer burned trout, go to Harmons and buy an aged, bone-in new york steak. Grlled medium rare.

[Slippery]

I'm with Cary, the problem with trout is they taste like fish.

[jonescort]

Herbs way. Herb jump in and explain. you need a nice pink/orange scofield fish, lemon seasoning, and butter if I recall. Fillet fish, place on grill, add lemon seasoning and butter. Thats all I remember. All I know is it tasted better than most salmon I have eaten.

[Foamy8]

Trout-

Key for trout is the following: Skin. Yuck. Gray tissue on meat needs to go too. These are the fat reserves and holds 80% of your fishy flavor. This is like fat, bone, and hair from wild game. Clean that off really well, and you're in for a much better eating experience.

Put 1-2 cloves minced garlic with olive oil and some rosemary(herbs de provence for fancy name), pepper, salt and marinate for 1 hour. Grill 3-4 minutes per side depending on thickness of filet. Don't overcook fish. This ruins fish faster than the freezer.

Good stuff.

(try this on white fleshed fish like wiper, bluegill, crappie, catfish) and it's 10x better.

[S&P]

You know, I have tried seasoning trout several ways and never could get it to where I really liked it. Then I brought some in to work a few months ago and my islander buddy cooked them up perfect. He simply skinned then and cooked them on an electric flat pan with a small amount of butter. No seasonings at all during the cooking process. They came out mild and tasty and he has some fresh squeezed lime juice with some fresh ground pepper to dip the pieces of fish in. Served with sticky rice and soy sauce it was great.

[UtahFlyGuy]

Forget the Trout. Eat a Whitefish.

[jonescort]

Or Carp:)...

[Herb]

The recipe I use for trout is rather easy. The best part about it is that my neighbors and kids love it.

Fillet the trout so it is boneless. Cover gas grill with aluminum foil.
Preheat grill to 375 degrees. Brush the skin and fillets with olive oil. Place the fillets skin side down on the aluminum foil. Season the trout fillets with lemon pepper, season salt, and garlic powder and any other of your favorite seasoning. Place a couple butter pads (1-2 teaspoons) on top of seasoned fillets. Close the lid and let it cook for 8-10 minutes. Check the trout, it should be sizzling. Flip the fish over, the skin will usually stick to the aluminum foil, lightly season and butter the side that had the skin. Close the lid and let it cook for 8-10 more minutes, depending on the thickness of the fillets. Use a large spatula to help turn the trout fillets. Long spatulas help the fillets stay together along with removing the cooked fillets from the grill. Clean up is as easy as taking the aluminum off the grill and throwing it away.

I use the same recipe with the broiler in the oven, although it only takes 10-12 minutes total cooking time. The downside to doing it in the house is the smoke or smell you can sometimes get from the high heat of the broiler. The trout comes out looking like a blackened salmon and it tastes awesome.

[flintcreek]

Filet, wrap in foil with red onions, green and red peppers cut up, fresh ground pepper, then drizzle ranch dressing over the filets. Cook until the ranch has been absorbed in and of course fork test the filets. Takes out any fishy taste or smell. Left over filets make a great sandwich also