Trout stuffed with garlic and spinach

4 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
5 Garlic cloves; peeled and sliced
½ bunch Spinach; rinsed and trimmed
Salt and black pepper
4 smalls Trout fillets; (bones and scales removed)
Flour
2 tablespoons Butter
2 tablespoons Olive oil
1 Lemon; cut in 4 wedges

Directions

Blanch the garlic slivers in boiling water 3 minutes. Drain, rinse with cold water, and rinse again. Wilt the spinach leaves in a large dry pot over high heat, turning occasionally, 3 minutes. Remove from heat, squeeze out excess water and roughly chop. Combine in small bowl with garlic slivers, salt, and pepper. Preheat oven to 400F. Season inside of trout with salt and pepper. Divide spinach mixture and tuck inside fish. Tie with string around center of each to hold stuffing. Dust the outsides with flour and season with salt and pepper. Melt butter and oil in 2 large skillets over high heat. Fry the fish about a minute per side. Transfer to oven and cook 4 minutes, turning after 2 minutes. Serve hot with lemon wedges.

Recipe from THE TOTALLY GARLIC COOKBOOK, by Helene Siegel and Karen Gillingham (C) 1994, Ten Speed Press. CompuCook Kitchens >from Pat Hanneman (Kitpath) 1998 Mar Recipe by: THE TOTALLY GARLIC COOKBOOK, by Siegel & Gillingham Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by KitPATh <phannema@...> on Mar 09, 1998

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