Baked trout in paper

Baking a trout fillet in a paper parcel with aromatic fennel and white wine seals in all of the cooking juices. Serve as a simple, easy, healthy afterwork dinner for two with some steamed buttered potatoes or crusty bread.

📝 Ingredients

• 1 lemon 1/2 sliced and the rest cut in half
• 1 trout gutted and scaled
• 1 bulb fennel finely sliced
• 2 shallots sliced
• a splash white wine or Vermouth
• olive oil
• 1/2 pack parsley finely chopped
• to serve steamed potatoes

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Heat the oven to 200c/fan 180c/gas 6. Stuff the lemon slices into the trout. Scatter the fennel in the centre of a large piece of baking paper or foil and lay the trout on top.
2. 2Sprinkle with the shallots and wine or vermouth, add a drizzle of oil and fold into a parcel. Put on a baking sheet and cook for 25 minutes. Open the parcel and sprinkle with parsley. Serve with steamed potatoes.