How to Cook Trout

This fresh trout recipe is seasoned, broiled, and served with the simplest butter-lemon sauce for a weeknight meal that couldn't be easier or quicker.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 25 mins
• Calories: 470 Calories

Ingredients

• salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 2 (8 ounce) whole trout, butterflied and deboned
• 0.25 cup butter

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat until butter smells toasted and is golden brown, about 1 minute. Turn off heat.

Step 2

Line a baking sheet with a piece of aluminum foil. Place trout onto foil; open trout so skin sides are down. Drizzle each trout with about 1/2 teaspoon melted butter. Generously season with salt and black pepper.

Step 3

Broil trout until opaque and barely firm to the touch, 2 or 3 minutes. Remove from oven.

Step 4

Move an oven rack to 5 or 6 inches below the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler on high heat.

Step 5

Return pan of remaining melted butter over high heat; stir in lemon juice and parsley. Bring butter sauce to a boil; whisk to combine.

Step 6

Serve trout on plates and drizzle with butter sauce.