
Trout Recipes Abound!
Wondering how to prepare trout? We’ve compiled some recipes from around the internet, and one doozie from our website.
Cioppino
Each year during this season, we whip up batches of Cioppino Broth so that you can finish a big bowl of steaming ruby awesomeness with your own choices of shellfish, seafood, or firm-fleshed fish from our seafood case. The broth is a heady mix of tomato, vegetable stock, various chopped vegetables (leek, onion, celery, bell pepper, fennel, and garlic) and several aromatic herbs and spices (bay, oregano, thyme, and cayenne—just a whisper). Here are easy directions for a large serving for one person; multiply as your table requires.
Sous-vide Steelhead Trout with Black and White Rices
In French, to cook something “sous vide” means that the food has been put “under vacuum” (in a plastic film pouch), perhaps partially cooked, but finished cooking in very warm, even hot, water. Commonly, flavorings or marinades are added to the pouch so that they, too, cook alongside.
Frijoles Charros (Cowboy Beans)
This is a very traditional Mexican side dish, buffet dish, or fiesta standard. Using smoked pimentón (smoked paprika) gives the beans a true cowboy-y, campfire feel.
Gratin of French Onion Soup
Do you like French onion soup? Do you like filling your house with the swoon-inducing aromas of cooking? Then this recipe will treat you nicely.
Grilled or Pan-seared 770 Steak, Heirloom Tomatoes, and Onions, with Sauce Gribiche
To steal from Wikipedia: “Sauce gribiche is a mayonnaise-style cold egg sauce in the French cuisine, made by emulsifying hard-boiled egg yolks and mustard with a neutral oil like canola or grapeseed. The sauce is finished with chopped pickled cucumbers, capers, parsley, chervil and tarragon.”
And when you eat this sauce with a marinated and seared 770 Cut steak from Marczyk’s…well, we’ll let you discover the joy all on your own.
Butternut Squash “Bolognese”
Roasting the main ingredients not only makes for more convenient preparation, but it also develops additional flavors that merely boiling or steaming would not. If you have one, an immersion blender makes puréeing the sauce even easier. (Ask for one for the holidays.)
St. John's Uni Congee
If you’ve been to a sushi den and ordered and eaten uni, you’ll remember that sea urchin is up there as one of the more delicious combinations of savor, flavor, texture and temptation.
Pan-Roasted Striped Bass
Striped bass has a clean mouthfeel and a semi-firm texture. Cooked, it has a flaky texture with skin that crisps beautifully.
Chicken Breast Paillards
We’ve got a number one recipe for chicken breasts here, pounding them into paillards, thin “cutlets” that are usually breaded in panko crumbs before sautéing. Instead of panko, we’re suggesting some killer Spanish potato chips, a lot more flavorful than panko.
St. John’s Cassoulet
This is a very long recipe (it can take three days to make); it is complicated, though the ingredients are commonplace; and it necessitates using only the best. That said, it is a dish that, if you’re successful making it, will wow anyone eating it as few dishes could.