Lemon Garlic Trout with Sicilian Harvest Salad – A Quick Fix Dinner
I haven’t been cooking much lately. After about three months of social hiatus, there was a lot of catching up to do. When my parents were in town, I spent all my spare time with them. I think that is the least one can do for their parents, especially when they visit only once in a blue moon. Luckily all our friends are very understanding, and we could pick up right where we left off. Since most all of our social interactions are centered around food, be it going out with friends to restaurants, or going to someone’s house for a nice home-cooked treat, there is always food and drinks present. That means less cooking at home these past weeks.
Well, anyway we are almost caught up on the social front, and the cricket season is over too. Congratulations to Siv, whose team won the North West Cricket League championship, second year in a row under his captaincy. I think I’m more thrilled than he is, it is not like I’m a cricket fan, in fact I hate the game, but the last thing I wanted was to deal with a husband mopping around the house. Luckily all is well, and he is in seventh heaven.
The point of all this intro was the fact that I hope our lives get back into some sort of schedule from this week on. To start the new week right, I made another one of our quick fix weekday dinners - an easy breezy salad with a side of protein.
Today’s salad recipe is from Michael Chiarello’s Food Network show Easy Entertaining. I chose this particular recipe, because the main ingredient in here is also the theme of this month’s AFAM - Grapes. This salad uses both fresh grapes and raisins. The dried apricots and the raisins adds a rich sweet flavor to the salad, and along with the fresh grapes, the salad was the perfect accompaniment to my spicy pan-fried trout.
The original recipe called for radicchio and baby spinach. I used the pre packed European salad mix that contains radicchio, mache and frisée. I also omitted the fried rosemary and prosciutto. Refer to the original recipe here: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_25831,00.html
And here is my just slightly modified version.
Sicilian Harvest Salad
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup raisins
- Boiling water
- 1 cup halved large seedless grapes
- 1 tablespoon diced dried apricots (1/4-inch dice)
- 1/2 tbsp dried rosemary
- 1/4 large red onion, cut into small slivers
- 1/2 large lemon, juiced
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 5 oz pack of European salad mix
- 1 tablespoon pine nuts, toasted
Method
Put the raisins in a small bowl and pour boiling water over them to cover. Let stand until plump and soft, about 10 minutes. Drain.
Put the raisins, grapes, apricots, rosemary and onion in a large bowl. Add the lemon juice and stir in the olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
Add the leaves to the dried fruit mixture and toss well. Scatter the pine nuts over the top.
Lemon Garlic Trout
This one is completely my own recipe, and like all my recipes it is so easy it is even embarrassing to type it up. If you can’t find trout filets, ask the friendly guy at the seafood counter to filet the fresh trout for you, so you don’t need to waste time cleaning the fish.
Ingredients
- 4 trout filets (from 2 trouts)
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp black peppercorns
- 1/2 tbsp cayenne pepper
- juice from 1 large lemon
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- Salt to taste
Method
In a mortar, combine the garlic and pepper and crush to a coarse paste. Add the cayenne, salt, 1 tbsp olive oil and lemon juice and mix well to form a thick marinade.
Brush the marinade on the fish filets.
Heat the remaining oil in a grill pan and pan-fry the fish filets, about 4 minutes on each side.
Serve hot with a side salad.
The Sicilian Harvest Salad is my entry for AFAM – Grapes hosted by Swapna of Swad. A Fruit A Month event was started by Maheswari of Beyond the Usual.
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Yummm… The lemon Garlic trout looks so very delicious….
Though I am not a big fan of salads… I loved the pic…
hi sigma,
love ur blog!am going 2 try this recipe soon…also,could u plz post some easy fish recipes that r low carb.
p.s:will add u 2 my bloglist.
What is yr fridge saying, after your mom gone?
congrats to siv. did he get to watch the India-Pak 20-20 yesterday? your dish looks great as usual.
Colourful salad!
congrats to siv:) although i am not a big cricket fan, i cant stop grinning since india won world cup;)
Oh!! Sig i am a die hard fan of cricket so imagine how i was yesterday when india won, i was ecstatic and still is!!
Congrats to Siv!! and what a nice lemony trout!!
I love to have my Fish this way!!!
great entry!!
Congratulations to Siv and his team Sig. That trout looks lovely – it must taste really flavorful with just the basic ingredients garlic, lemon and pepper.
Mamatha
You got me drooling at the salad girl, beau-ti-ful!!:))
lovely stuff… hey do you know that pine nuts cost 1600 bucks a kilo here!!
and you are not fond of cricket
join the club girl… Sachin used to play county cricket in Scotland and he got me for a wife!!
salad looks yum, loved the way u incorporated dried apricot into the salad, am all for it
congrats to siv, so it’s going to be a double celebration i guess
That looks fantastic and colorful. Great side dish salad. Yummy…thanks for sharing sia!
Sig that is a very nice lemon trout. And the salade is beautiful. I could even see the shine from the olive oil.
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Hey so have you started missing your moms cooking
Looks soooo yummmy. Fish, anytime for me
Hey me too am not a cricket fan. I thought i was the only one 
Congrats to siv !
Wow!!!! this is a perfect complete meal.
oooh! Just my type of food! Absolutely gorgeous.
Oh, and congrats to Siv
congrats to siv… and I loooove cricket (watching it that is)… loved the T20 final match!!!
your salad pic is so well taken…i love the way you photograph sig
Trout looks fabulous Sig! and Congratulations to Siv and his team for the vistory. Hey you dont like cricket? Man yest we had a great match with Pak in T20 and we won!
Pine nuts make all the difference and
I love all your recipes, great job!
that salad looks really good..i am going to make this..except the apricots..coz i have none ….aha! so hubby won the match…does he rave and talk about the winning match all day or does he respect ur dislike to the game (unlike the one i am here with
What gorgeous colors! You make even simple things like a salad look great! and congrats to Siv, his victory nicely coincides with Indian World Cup
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Love the salad Sig!I cant wait to try it !!
The salad is refreshing Sig, Viji
Sig! this is so lovely. I love seafood and the trout looks delicious.
i might pick out my fave veggies from the salad though
So Siv has a double win !!!
That trout looks good and the sald too
congrats, Siv!!
am sure D will love this lemon trout – me being the ever-dutiful wife (read: kitchen-control-freak, as in, if I let D cook, I have to spend the next day putting things back in their shelves so it suits my cooking style), I cook stuff for him that I don’t even eat
Me, I am sticking with the salad, it looks yummy!
Congrats to Siv and his team!
A colour salad to go with a really nice white fish. I love trout.
I am sure this fish tastes yum as it is somewhat similar to the pepper fish fry I make….the only difference is that I dont add cayenne pepper….great dinner
Shn
hi sig, the fish n sald lukkks just tooo great!!!
Congratulations to Siv! I don’t know the first thing about cricket, but way to go!!
I love this salad too–bold flavors and cheerful colors. I’ll be trying it soon, Sig!
The trout marinade sounds awesome, I’m not a big trout person (as yet), but this might be something I need to try out!
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