TROUT ORLEANS
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 5 tbsp clarified butter
- plain flour
- to coat
- 2 sea trout fillets
- skin on
- 55g/2oz fresh breadcrumbs
- 2 bananas
- 2 lemons
- 1 juiced
- 1 thinly sliced
- 55g/2oz butter
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 tomatoes
- thinly sliced
- salt and white pepper
Directions
- Preheat the grill to warm. In a shallow dish
- whisk the eggs with 2 tbsp of the clarified butter.
- Put a good handful of flour on a plate and season lightly with white pepper and salt.
- Take the sea trout fillets and coat them with the seasoned flour
- then dip them in the egg mixture and finally toss them in breadcrumbs until they are completely covered.
- Heat a frying pan until very hot then add 2 tbsp of the clarified butter. Place the breaded fillets in the pan
- skin side up for 2 minutes. Turn the fillets over and cook for a further 3 minutes
- or until golden brown. Leave the pan on the heat
- transfer fillets to a heat-resistant plate
- skin side down and place under the grill for 5 minutes.
- Halve the bananas
- lengthways. Add the remaining clarified butter to the hot pan and place the banana halves in the pan for 5 minutes
- turning occassionally to stop them burning.
- In a heatproof bowl sitting over a pan of hot water
- whisk the lemon juice
- butter and egg yolks to a creamy sauce. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Take the fillets from under the grill and place tomato and lemon slices over the flesh side
- alternately and overlapping so they cover most of the fish. Turn the grill up to full and cook the fillets for a further minute.
- Serve the trout and bananas together on a plate
- covered with sauce.

