This recipe for trout en papillote with fennel and tomato is another cracking dish from Ucook. It’s the perfect dish to adapt to one portion too, and it couldn’t be easier to knock up an unbelievably healthy and delicious restaurant-quality meal in minutes. The warm new potato salad served on the side with simply crème fraiche and parsley is sublime. It’s more of a rustic new potato mash and it’s a keeper.
I used a non-stick baking paper to make the ‘papillote’ and really this is just a French word for a paper bag. You can also use foil, which will be even easier. You simply fold it over to cover the ingredients and then scrimp the edges to seal completely. The food steams in the white wine with the herbs to lock in all the flavour and create a super moist and flaky texture.
The UCook recipe recommends first cooking the fennel and tomato in the bag for 4 minutes with olive oil and seasoning, and then opening it up, adding the trout and white and sealing it again. This was spot on and I guess the optimal time to cook the trout. I skipped this step when I cooked the three fillets as I didn’t want to open and re-open the paper for visual appeal, but I do suggest you do this if you are using foil.
*** NB – I make this recipe all the time and don’t often have wine available to use so substitute it with 1 x fish stock sachet (available from Ina Paarman or Woolworths) with about 50 ml boiling water (this is for 1 x large trout fillet. Use 2 x sachets with 150ml water if you are using 3 – 4 fillets). Use salmon if you cant find trout.
Recipe – serves 4 (50 minutes to prepare) (slightly adapted from UCook)
Printtrout en papillote with fennel and tomato
Trout (or salmon( en papillote (cooked in a pouch) with fennel and baby tomatoes is a restaurant-quality dish that is so easy to make at home
Ingredients
4 trout or salmon fillets, pin boned but skin on
320gm baby tomatoes, sliced in half
3 baby fennel bulb – or half a large one, finely sliced
150ml dry white wine or good quality fish stock
a few sprigs of dill or fennel fonds
700– 750gms baby potatoes
7gm parsley (small handful) finely chopped
125ml / half a cup crème fraiche
salt & pepper
olive oil
baking paper
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F and put the potatoes in a pot covered with salty water and bring this to a boil.
Place the fennel and tomatoes in the paper with a drizzle of oil and season. Fold this up and cook for 5 minutes then remove from the oven.
Place the trout on top of the veg, drizzle a little olive oil over, add the wine and then scatter over the dill. Seal and place back in the oven on a roasting tray and cook for a further 18 minutes.
Drain the new potatoes and lightly mash them with a fork. Add the crème Fraiche, parsley and salt and pepper. Serve this with the fish and vegetables when they come out of the oven.
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Keywords: trout, salmon, papilotte, fennel, tomatoes
For my other Ucook recipes:
Oven-roasted cauliflower risotto
Chicken & mushroom stroganoff with crispy sage
Grilled soy and lime hake with charred greens, fresh tomato & a chilli dressing
Goan meatballs with cauliflower rice
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4 Comments
Mmmm! That sounds lovely, wil be giving it a go!
Hi there, how much white wine do you use? Thanks
HI Lauren – sorry I had left that off, its 150ml of dry white wine. I’ve updated the recipe now
Thank you! Making this tonight 🙂