Baked Salmon Trout with Orange Butter and Mint

Name: Baked Salmon Trout with Orange Butter and Mint
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: grated zest of 1 orange and 1 tbsp orange juice; 1 tbsp finely chopped preserved kumquats or peel from coarse-cut marmalade; 1 tbsp finely chopped preserved kumquats or peel from coarse-cut marmalade; 3 oz / 85 g unsalted butter; 6 pieces of skinned salmon trout fillet, 6 oz / 170 g each; freshly ground black pepper; salt; grated zest of 1 orange and 1 tbsp orange juice; 12sprigs mint

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

About

This is very good served with new potatoes, boiled or steamed in their skins and dressed in a little walnut oil and orange juice.

Ingredients

6 pieces of skinned salmon trout fillet, 6 oz / 170 g each

Preserve
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Trim the pieces of fillet to a neat shape, and remove any bones. Use a little of the butter to grease an ovenproof dish. Lightly season the fish fillets, and place them in a single layer in the dish with a mint leaf under each one. Reserve six leaves or sprigs for decoration. Mix the rest of the butter with the orange zest, juice and finely chopped preserved kumquats or orange peel. Spread the