Trout Roasted With Sage, Walnuts And Bacon

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 8 slices bacon, diced
• 1 shallot, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
• 15 sage leaves, coarsely chopped
• 4 trout, cleaned scaled gills removed (about 3/4 to 1 pound each)
• to taste kosher salt
• to taste black pepper, freshly ground
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• to taste lemon wedge
• 4 sprigs watercress, for garnish

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 450.
• 2 in a medium skillet, fry the bacon until it is cooked through and very lightly browned, ~5 min. remove the bacon and set aside. pour out the excess bacon grease and return the skillet to the stove.
• 3 add the shallot and walnuts, toasting and shaking the pan, until the walnuts are lightly browned, 3-4 min. remove the pan from the heat and stir in the bacon and sage leaves.
• 4 season the fish inside and out with salt and pepper. brush the skin lightly with vegetable oil. divide the bacon mixture between the 4 trout, stuffing it in the cavity of each fish. place the fish in a large roasting pan fitted with a rack. roast until the fish is just cooked through, ~15 min.
• 5 transfer to plates and serve with lemon and garnished with the watercress.