Baking Love 'n' Eating Love

Baked Rainbow Trout

Healthy eating introduced me to baking.

Baking introduced me to butter sticks.

Butter sticks introduced me to weight gain. 

Did I say healthy eating introduced me to baking?

I always claim that I hate cooking but fortunately I love baking. 

Baking is joyful you prep – prep – prep dump it all in a container and bake – bake – bake. And voila what do you have! A lovely fluffy cake or a golden crusted pie, or a crumbly top mac n cheese, or in case of today’s recipe a moist and tangy baked rainbow trout.

This is a fresh, herby and lemony fish something new I tried and loved and wanted to share.

Melt 2 Tbsp. of butter…BUTTER….in a pan. Doesn’t seeing melting butter melt your heart? And the scent of it while melting…..yum!

Finely chop 2 Tbsp. parsley and 5 cloves of garlic. Showing my fine knife skills!

Next when the butter is beautifully melted add garlic to it cook till the raw smell of garlic goes off and has just started to brown. Then add the chopped parsley.

Zest one lime and Juice it. Add both to the parsley butter garlic. Don't forget to turn off the heat.
Slice another lime and keep ready. 

Take a nicely cleaned and descaled rainbow trout medium sized. Cut slits on both the sides of the fish make them nice and deep. Rub the fish with salt and pepper inside and out.  ]

Do you think the fish looks startled?Or it is just me......

Then place it on a baking sheet which was sprayed with cooking oil.
Now stuff the fish and slits on it with the lemon, garlic and parsley butter sauce. Also remember the diced lemon, you got to stuff that in the fish tummy too.
It looks like this now....

Don't forget to stuff the other side slits too you don't want a fish tasting differently on both sides.

Now in the oven it goes at 410F for 25 min on top most rack and then 5 min on the lowest rack. 

So 30 min you can do whatever you want....that is why I love baking you get a break till it cooks you don't have to stand near the stove and stir - stir - stir.

And after 30 min your dream has come true! A beautiful baked dish of fish. Moist and tangy, fresh and delicious!

Baked, healthy?? Did I mention 2 Tbsp. of butter!