Trout, lime & Scotch bonnet butter with dressed green beans

Trout, lime & Scotch bonnet butter with dressed green beans

Zesty lime cuts through the buttery trout in this recipe from Melissa Thompson, while fiery Scotch bonnet adds bold warmth to this quick dish. Follow Melissa on Instagram.

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Gluten free
  • Serves4
  • CourseMain meal
  • Prepare10 mins
  • Cook10 mins
  • Total time20 mins

Ingredients

  • 2 Cooks’ Ingredients Scotch Bonnet Chillies
  • 100g No. 1 French Butter with Sea Salt Crystals, at room temperature
  • 2 unwaxed limes, zested and quartered
  • ½ tsp ground black pepper
  • 20g pack chives, finely chopped
  • 2 x 300g packs fine green beans, stalk end removed
  • 2 tsp olive oil, plus a small glug
  • 2 clove/s garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp wholegrain mustard
  • 2 x 265g packs 2 Scottish loch trout fillets
  • Boiled new potatoes, to serve

Method

  1. To make the butter, deseed the chillies, remove the pith and finely chop the flesh. Mix the butter (reserve a small knob) with the Scotch bonnet, lime zest, black pepper and half the chives.

  2. Bring a pan of salted water to the boil and blanch the green beans for 4 minutes. Drain and return to the pan with the reserved butter, a glug of oil and the garlic. Fry for a couple of minutes over a medium-low heat. Add the mustard, stir to coat, then turn the heat off.

  3. Heat a frying pan over a medium heat with 2 tsp oil. Dry the skin of the trout fillets as much as possible with kitchen paper, season the flesh side, then carefully lay, skin-side down, into the oil. Fry for 3 minutes, then turn carefully to fry the top – if the skin sticks, leave it until ready to come away.

  4. Cook the other side for 2 minutes more, then quickly sear the sides until golden all over. Reduce the heat to low, add about three-quarters of the flavoured butter to the pan, then baste the top side of the fish by spooning over the bubbling butter.

  5. Plate up the trout and spoon over the butter. Add some remaining unmelted flavoured butter to the top side of the fillets, then sprinkle over the remaining chives. Serve with the green beans (reheated gently if needed), new potatoes and a lime quarter per person.

Cook’s tip

Pop any leftover Scotch bonnets in a freezer bag or container and use from frozen in other dishes. They will keep for 3 months.

Nutritional

Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe

Energy

1,873kJ/ 451kcals

Fat

33.9g

Saturated Fat

16.5g

Carbohydrates

5.4g

Sugars

3.8g

Fibre

5.5g

Protein

28.4g

Salt

0.8g

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