Trout with Leek & Mushroom Butter Sauce

In honor of the first fish caught on my kayak, I decided that I would do something a little bit special with this trout instead of the typical (albeit very good pan fry in bacon fat with a squeeze of lemon).  I filleted the fish and put together a relatively simple pan sauce and served it with some chard that I purchased earlier in the week.  Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
1 14" trout filleted (skin left on)
1 leek split into quarters and then chopped
1 shallot sliced
1 cup of sliced mushrooms
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
3 tablespoons of butter
1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
salt and white pepper to taste
flour for dusting

Pat the fillets dry and season with salt and pepper.
Lightly dust with flour.
Heat a medium frying pan over medium high heat.
Add oil and one tablespoon of the butter and heat until the butter just starts to brown.
Add the fillets skin side down and cook for about a minute and a half
Flip them once and cook them for another minute.
Remove the fillets from the pan and set aside on a paper towel.
Turn down heat to medium.
Discard excess fat from the pan and add the leeks and shallots.
Cook them until thy are slightly softened.
Add mushrooms, a pinch of salt and cook until most of the liquid has been extracted from the mushrooms.
Turn heat back up to medium high and add the wine.
Cook for a few minutes until most of the acohol has burnt off.
Add the lemon juice and cook for another minute or so.
Finish with the last two tablespoons of butter.
Add parsley reserving about a teaspoon for garnish.
Add salt and white pepper to taste.
Arrange fillets on plates and spoon the sauce on and around the fish.
Garnish with remaining parsley.

The fillets


The ingredients:


Fish frying:


Mushrooms and leeks ready for wine and lemon:


The finished dish:

nice looking dish, cameron

Tasty looking.  I would probably substitute some wild black trumpet chanterelles for the buttons, but thats only because I am a wild mushroom nutcase.

Oh man! now i'm hungry
 Gonna write this one down

Looks goooooood!