Buttered Saffron Trout with Pan Roasted Veg
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Total: 20 mins
Delicate fillets of trout smothered in a saffron, lemon and chervil butter and served with pan roasted cherry tomatoes, potatoes and nutty spears of Tenderstem® broccoli.
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590 kcal
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Ingredients you'll need
  • 500g potatoes
  • 250g cherry tomatoes
  • 1 lemon
  • A handful of chervil
  • 45g butter, softened
  • A pinch of saffron powder
  • 200g Tenderstem® broccoli
  • 2 trout fillets
From your kitchen
  • Sea salt
  • ½ tbsp + 1 tsp olive oil
  • Freshly ground pepper
You'll need
  • Large pan with lid
  • Large frying pan
Step by step this way
  • 1.

    Fill and boil your kettle. Scrub the potatoes and halve or quarter them so they're all roughly the same size. Pop the potatoes into a large pan and pour in the hot water from the kettle. Add a big pinch of salt, cover and bring to the boil. When boiling, turn the heat down and simmer the spuds for 10 mins, till nearly cooked all the way through.

  • 2.

    Meanwhile, halve the cherry tomatoes. Warm a large frying pan on a medium heat for 1 min, then add ½ tbsp olive oil. Add the cherry tomatoes with a pinch of salt and fry for 5 mins, stirring often, till the tomatoes are collapsing. Tip them into a bowl and set the pan to one side.

  • 3.

    While the tomatoes cook, zest the lemon into a bowl. Chop the chervil stalks and add those, setting the leaves aside. Add the room temperature butter, some salt and pepper and a pinch of saffron powder, and stir together. Cut the zested lemon into wedges.

  • 4.

    Trim the dry ends off the Tenderstem® broccoli and cut any thicker spears in half. When the potatoes have cooked for 10 mins, drop in the broccoli and cook together for 3 mins till the potatoes are tender when pierced with a knife and the broccoli is bright green and tender. Drain and set aside in the colander to steam dry.

  • 5.

    As soon as you add the broccoli to the pan, place the pan you cooked the tomatoes in back on a medium heat. Add 1 tsp of the saffron butter to the pan with 1 tsp olive oil and let it melt. Add the trout fillets to the pan, skin-side down, and cook for 2 mins. Carefully turn the fillets over and cook for 1 min on the other side. Add the remaining saffron butter to the pan along with the tomatoes and bring up to a bubble. Turn off the heat.

  • 6.

    Divide the potatoes and broccoli between 2 warm plates. Top with the trout fillets and spoon over the saffron butter sauce and tomatoes. Garnish with the chervil leaves and serve with lemon wedges for squeezing.

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