Greggae's Bacon Trout

I took my 3-year-old fishing for the first time and we caught two trout. I never made trout before. I literally made this recipe up as I went, with what I found in the kitchen. I checked other recipes to get cooking times. I went a little longer on the cooking time because of the bacon. I'm only posting this because the entire family loved it.

• Preparation Time: 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 25 mins
• Total Time: 50 mins
• Calories: 295 Calories

Ingredients

• ¼ cup butter
• 1 lemon, juiced
• ½ clove garlic, minced
• 2 slices bacon
• sea salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 2 tablespoons diced green onion
• 2 sprigs fresh dill
• 2 tablespoons seeded and diced jalapeno pepper
• 2 (10 ounce) cleaned whole trout, heads removed

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a 9x13-inch glass baking dish with foil.

Step 2

Place a small saucepan over low heat; heat butter until partially melted. Stir in lemon juice, jalapeno pepper, green onion, and garlic; stir mixture into a paste. Season with sea salt and black pepper.

Step 3

Place each trout onto a large sheet of aluminum foil and stuff the cavity of each fish with butter paste; place a dill sprig and a bacon strip into the cavity over the butter mixture. Fold foil over fish and wrap edges to seal tightly. Place foil packets in the prepared baking dish.

Step 4

Bake foil packets until fish flakes easily with a fork, 26 minutes. Let fish sit in foil packet for 5 minutes before unwrapping. To serve, transfer fish from foil to a serving plate; discard bacon. Flesh of fish will be white and skin will peel off.