Soy & five spice trout fillets
A quick and easy way to liven up trout fillets. Oven bake with seasoning sauce and add more dressing to serve.
Serves: 2
Prep time: 10 mins.
Cooking time: 15 mins.
Ingredients
2 Rutland rainbow trout fillets
For the seasoning sauce:
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 2 tsp Thai chilli and shrimp paste (or other chilli paste)
- 2 tsp tomato puree
- 2 tsp soft brown sugar
- 1 tsp Chinese five spice
For the dressing:
- the remaining ⅓ of the seasoning sauce
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- Juice of half a lime
- 1 extra tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp sunflower oil
Suggested accompaniments:
Ribbons of cucumber and steamed rice
Method
- Pre-heat the oven to 180 deg C.
- Mix the seasoning sauce ingredients in a small bowl to make a rich, aromatic paste.
- Place a piece of baking parchment on a baking sheet and place the trout fillets on this, skin-side down.
- Evenly spread ⅔ of the seasoning sauce over the trout and bake in the oven for around 12 minutes.
- Stir all the dressing ingredients together.
- Once the cooked trout has rested for a minute or two, place it on the serving plate and drizzle over the dressing.
- Add whatever you are going to use as an accompaniment and serve.
