Recipe: Baked Trout with Garlic and Mushrooms

Baked Trout with Garlic and Mushrooms

4 or 5 trout 3/4 to 1 pound each
1/3 to 1/2 cup olive oil
4 or 5 cloves garlic, chopped
fresh ground black pepper
salt
1/2 to 3/4 pound fresh mushrooms
1/2 cube butter
4 tablespoons fine dry bread crumbs
3 or 4 green onions, sliced
3 fresh lemons
2 tablespoons minced parsley
Directions

To cook trout, wash and dry the fish inside and out and coat sides with a little olive oil. Slice mushrooms and place half in the bottom of a shallow baking dish. Salt and pepper fish, inside and out, to taste and place in dish on top of mushrooms. Sprinkle with bread crumbs along with the minced parsley, chopped garlic and the green onion. If using fresh lemons, squeeze 1 or 2 directly over the entire trout including the inside.

Meanwhile melt butter, add to olive oil and the juice of 2 lemons. Pour slowly over fish saving about half of the mixture. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes at 375 degrees or until they are tender and bread crumbs are light brown. Fish is done when the meat flakes easily when a fork is inserted into the flesh and lifted up slightly.

Just before the fish are done, saute 1 to 2 minutes, the remaining mushrooms in the sauce that is left and pour over top after placing trout on a serving plate. Garnish with a few lemon wedges and a few sprigs of fresh parsley. Serve with rice, or pasta, and a vegetable.