How to prepare trout

[sigpros]

What is everyone's favorite way to cook trout? We have a few in the freezer from our Yellowstone trip and we are going to try for some more that get stocked in a few lakes around here in the winter. Just wanting some ideas on how to cook them

Thank you for any recipes

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

Smoking is good. I like grilled as well, with butter, lemon pepper, whatever else suites you fancy.

 

[duckhunt]

What is everyone's favorite way to cook trout? We have a few in the freezer from our Yellowstone trip and we are going to try for some more that get stocked in a few lakes around here in the winter. Just wanting some ideas on how to cook them

Thank you for any recipes

Tried baked for the first time last week.
Seasoning and butter, baked on 350 for about 20 minutes.

 

[Sheltowee]

Gut, insert thin lemon slices into body cavity, place on bed of diced onions and parboiled potatoes, wrap in aluminum foil, nestle next to the campfire for 10-15 minutes. Best accompanied with a col'beer.

Also, any Hank recipe is a sure winner: https://honest-food.net/fish-and-seafood-recipes/salmon-trout-recipes/#trout

 

[INMT]

Trout tacos are good too.

 

[Irrelevant]

Step 1, put them back
Step 2, go find a fish that actually tastes good...

 

[brymoore]

Step 1, put them back
Step 2, go find a fish that actually tastes good...

I wanted to say that…

I keep any trout I gill with the hook, otherwise I’m a white meat fish guy.

 

[INMT]

Step 1, put them back
Step 2, go find a fish that actually tastes good...

 

[adoc65]

Trout tacos are good too.

We did this with Brooke’s a few years ago….Delicious!

 

[tormenter]

The best way is to eat them fresh, preferably thick enough to filet or steak. We like them blackened like redfish or catfish, otherwise smoke them like salmon.

They taste completely different if frozen or sitting in the fridge a few days.

If the meat isn't orange or red - you caught a stocker and give it to someone you don't like or the dogs!

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

Even though I answered already, 99% of the trout I keep go back into the water. My daughter's did talk me in to keeping one last summer on a back packing trip and we cooked it up in the fire. Of course I wasn't prepared to do so, so we skewered it on a willow branch and roasted it over the fire. No butter, seasoning or anything. Never ate a better tasting trout.

 

[Wolfshead]

We like to stuff them with a homemade crab stuffing and grill them.

 

[ccc23454]

I can't remember last time I cooked a trout at home. My preferred way is foil wrapped, butter and little seasoning tossed on edge of good fire pit coals. Probably as much a ambiance.

 

[NoWiser]

My experience with trout is that you have to eat them fresh. Once they’re in the freezer they go downhill fast. The brown trout and stocked rainbows I’ve had, even fresh, were barely fit for cat food. Fresh brookies, cutthroat, or wild rainbows are awesome wrapped in foil, sprinkled with seasoning, with lots of butter. A fresh Canadian lake trout is perhaps the best eating freshwater fish there is. They put walleyes to shame.

 

[Straight Arrow]

The best fish we have eaten were small golden trout caught in Golden Trout Lake, right from the lake onto sticks, cooked over a campfire. 'Nothing more fresh and tasty!

 

[MTTW]

I like them fried up fresh in butter or bacon grease. If they go in the freezer, it may as well be the garbage can. I release most but if they are hooked bad, I keep them and eat them that day. When I get as much as we can eat, I quit fishing. I haven't put one in the freezer in 30 years.

 

[Steiny77]

I like them fried up fresh in butter or bacon grease. If they go in the freezer, it may as well be the garbage can. I release most but if they are hooked bad, I keep them and eat them that day. When I get as much as we can eat, I quit fishing. I haven't put one in the freezer in 30 years.

Agreed, freezing ruins stream trout.
Big thick lake trout fillets do okay in the freezer for a few months, but all trout is much better eaten fresh.

 

[Lmartin5]

We like to stuff them with a homemade crab stuffing and grill them.


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Looks good!

 

[Rack Daniels]

Small stream brookies on a stick over the fire is always best.
I grew up learning to stuff them with some lemon and butter maybe a rosemary sprig and wrap in foil on the grill or in oven for a bit, but most recently we’ve really enjoyed them shallow fried. Gives the skin a very delicious crisp unfortunately I can’t find a photo of one in oil with skin on