A more rustic, yet truly standout combination is all American. It's as good in the home, when entertaining, on the patio, or as when camping. It also allows variations in herbs and spices, and the veggies used.
Ingredients: Rainbow, Brown, Cutthroat, or Speckled Trout, no more than ten inches long, minus head and thoroughly cleaned.
Yukon Gold Potatoes, sliced
1 stalk celery, sliced
1/4 onion, sliced
salt & pepper
1 carrot, peeled and sliced with skin on
1/2 tsp. lemmon juice (optional but nice)
1/2 tsp. tarragon
1/4 tsp. dill weed
1/2 tsp. paprika
2 tbs. butter, softened
1 tbs. extra virgin olive oil
Place the veggies down as follows; potato slices, carrots, onions. Sprinkle salt and pper, with the paprika evenly over the mixture. Dry the fish, inside and out with a paper towel. Rub with the butter. sprinkle on both sides with salt, pepper, andthe taragon and dill weed. Rub salt in the fish cavity. Place the fish on top of the veggies. Seal the parchment (this can also be done in foil), and bake at 425 for 25 minutes. Serve as is, or with steamed asparagus.
This can also be done on a grill, using the indirect heat method.
Alternate ingredients:
Ocean or Yellow Perch, or walleye, or orange roughy, or pollok, etc. Asparagus spears
Shredded Parmesan Cheese
Sliced Onion
Salt
White Pepper
Lemon Juice
EVOO
Use same technique as above, layering first the apraragus, then onion. Drizzle on the EVOO and lemon juice, then season with S & P. Rub EVOO over the fish and roll in the shredded Parmesan Regiano cheese. Season the Fish. Bake.
Other veggies that will work with the fish include celery root, leeks, pearl onions, various potatoes, fresh green beans, hot and mild peppers. You could change the lemon juice to lime and use pepper slices (chipotles would be great), onion, cayenne pepper, mesquite flavored liquid smoke, and any flavorful fish such as trout, salmon, fresh tuna, etc. to make a southwestern flavored theme that would turn heads. Use your imagination and I'm sure that you can come up with unique ideas of your own as well.
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North