Trout in Port Wine Sauce

Name: Trout in Port Wine Sauce
Yield: Serves 4 as a starter (if using fillets) or 2 as a main
Ingredients: 1 shallot, minced; 2 whole trout, gutted and prepared for cooking, or 4 trout fillets; ¼ teaspoon black pepper; ¼ teaspoon ground allspice; pinch of ground cloves; pinch of salt; 1 cup (240 ml) chicken stock; 1 cup (240 ml) port, claret, or other full-bodied wine; 1 tablespoon water; 2 teaspoons cornstarch; 1½ teaspoons mushroom ketchup or Worcestershire sauce; 2 anchovy fillets in olive oil, finely chopped; 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a starter (if using fillets)

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

About

Along with hunting and shooting, fishing is a popular sport for the upper classes at Downton, especially when the family decamps to Scotland for the season 3 Christmas special. Scotland was renowned for the quality of its fishing, which included not just salmon but also trout. Queen Victoria helped to popularize Scotland as a destination for the rich when she bought Balmoral and threw herself into all things tartan, and her successor, Edward VII, retained Balmoral as a royal retreat, ensuri

Ingredients

Main course
Starter
Christmas

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