Originally Posted by PurplePassion
Had a free sample of Steelhead trout at the store, and GS loved it. So had to buy a couple of fillets. She used a rub and grilled it on indoor grill covered with tin foil. Has anyone fixed this and have a good recipe?
My son and his family go trout fishing every season and I am the lucky recipient of lots of rainbow and brown trout. My favorite (and easiest) way to fix them is to cook them whole (sometimes I remove the heads if they are too big to fit in the skillet). I salt them, dredge in flour, shake off the excess, just kind of smooth the flour on with my hands, then cook in a little oil and butter in a cast iron skillet until browned and crispy on both sides. There's nothing as good as crispy fried trout skin (and trout has NO scales to deal with). I serve them with lemon wedges. If you want, skatter some thinly sliced almonds in the skillet and you'll have trout almondine, but I don't like almonds and never thought they added anything to the fish.