Baked Trout with Garlic Butter

Name: Baked Trout with Garlic Butter (Swieży pstrąg w masłem czosnkowym)
Cuisine: Polish
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup butter, softened, plus extra, for greasing; 4 medium-sized trout, about 300 g/11 oz each, cleaned and gutted; 45 ml/3 tbsp lemon juice; salt and ground black pepper, to taste; salt and ground black pepper, to taste; lemon wedges and fresh parsley sprigs, to garnish; lemon wedges and fresh parsley sprigs, to garnish

Swieży pstrąg w masłem czosnkowym

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Poland

By Ewa Michalik

Published 2008

About

The rivers in Poland abound with trout, making them a popular choice in a country with only one seaboard. In this delicious recipe they are simply baked in the oven, drizzled with hot garlic butter and served with sprigs of parsley and wedges of lemon.

Ingredients

2 garlic cloves, crushed
50 g/2 oz/¼ cup

Europe
Poland
Fish course
Gluten-free
Pescatarian
Eastern Europe

Method

Mix together the garlic and butter in a bowl. Set aside until required.
Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Grease a large baking dish.
Place the fish in the baking dish. Pour the lemon juice all over and inside the trout, then season with