Trout en papillote

Trout en papillote

4.285715

(7 ratings)

By

Cooking time

Prep: 15 mins Cook: 25 mins - 30 mins

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 4

En papillote simple means cooking in parchment. This simple super-healthy dish both looks, and tastes great

Nutrition and extra info

Additional info

  • Easily doubled / halved
  • Dairy-free
  • Healthy
Nutrition info

Nutrition per serving

kcalories
262
protein
35g
carbs
8g
fat
10g
saturates
2g
fibre
2g
sugar
7g
salt
0.37g
Print Add to My Good Food

Ingredients

  • 2 large carrots, cut into batons
  • 3 celery sticks, cut into batons
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • 6 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • 4 x 175g trout fillets
  • basil leaves
  • juice 1 lemon

Buy Ingredients

Buy the ingredients for this recipe now via:

Want to know how this works? Read all about it here.

Method

  1. Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Put the carrots and celery in a pan with the oil, sugar, wine, salt and pepper. Bring to the boil, tightly cover, then cook for 10 mins until the vegetables are tender. Cool.
  2. Cut four large sheets of baking parchment, about 35cm square. Divide the vegetables between them and top each with a trout fillet. Scatter a few basil leaves and a little lemon juice over each, then season the fish with a little salt and pepper. Fold the paper in half and double fold all round to seal in the fish, a bit like a pasty.
  3. Put the parcels on two baking sheets and bake for 15-20 mins (depending on the thickness of the fish). Serve in their paper with some steamed new potatoes.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2008

BBC GoodFood Magazine

Comments, questions and tips

Sign in or create your My Good Food account to join the discussion.

Comments

Show comments
slowbiker's picture
slowbiker12:35, 9th Dec, 2012
5

I took your advice ''LOVEFOOD'' and used white wine instead of vingar plus more cooking time with veg the result ***** stars in my book.

hoppy2008's picture
hoppy200809:49, 26th Oct, 2010
4

cinemike..I have the magazine and it is white wine...not white wine vinegar...typo on the online recipe? Tried it tonight and love it but carrot and celery could do with a bit longer simmering.

cinemike's picture
cinemike09:17, 7th Apr, 2009

Haven't made this yet, but could it be that the ingredient is meant to be white wine, not white wine vinegar? Can't see the point of the lemon juice if used with wine vinegar...

judieh's picture
judieh06:12, 21st Aug, 2008
3

Maybe I prepared it wrong, but I didn't like this much. The veggies tasted too much of vinegar and the fish was a bit bland. I wouldn't make this again.

mcunningham's picture
mcunningham06:27, 24th Apr, 2008
3

Meh. Tried this one and it's very bland. Try Gordon Ramsey's recipe for Lemon sole en papillote instead.

cgparso's picture
cgparso08:47, 12th Apr, 2008
5

Very nice - I served it with steamed new potatoes and the spinach with brown butter and capers recipe from this site too... Went together very nicely :)

nickyb04's picture
nickyb0410:41, 20th Mar, 2008

This was a realy nice and light dinner- smelt and tasted delicious. I also served with new potatoes as suggested.

nuffinbuttrouble's picture
nuffinbuttrouble11:26, 23rd Feb, 2008
5

This is much tastier than it looks. I servedwith new potatoes as recommended but I would serve with rice and/or bread next time as there was lots of lovely juice in the bottle of each parcel that needed something to soak it up.

Questions

Show comments

Tips

Show comments