greggae's bacon trout

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 lemon, juiced
• 2 tablespoons seeded and diced jalapeno pepper
• 2 tablespoons diced green onion
• 1/2 clove garlic, minced
• sea salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 2 (10 ounce) cleaned whole trout, heads removed
• 2 sprigs fresh dill
• 2 slices bacon

Recipe

Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 25 mins Ready Time: 55 mins


• preheat oven to 400 degrees f (200 degrees c). line a 9x13-inch glass baking dish with foil.
• place a small saucepan over low heat; heat butter until partially melted. stir in lemon juice, jalapeno pepper, green onion, and garlic; stir mixture into a paste. season with sea salt and black pepper.
• place each trout a large sheet of aluminum foil and stuff the cavity of each fish with butter paste; place a dill sprig and a bacon strip into the cavity over the butter mixture. fold foil over fish and wrap edges to seal tightly. place foil packets in the prepared baking dish.
• bake foil packets until fish flakes easily with a fork, 26 minutes. let fish sit in foil packet for 5 minutes before unwrapping. to serve, transfer fish from foil to a serving plate; discard bacon. flesh of fish will be white and skin will peel off.