Skip to main content
Main

Marinated Sea Trout

Marinated sea trout fillet poached and served with a butter‑flour sauce, sour cream, lemon wedges, dill sprigs, and boiled potatoes.

From the Recipes Wiki (Fandom) · 16 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Dill and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Marinated Sea Trout

Timeabout 10 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Marinate

  1. Shred the vegetables for the marinades.

  2. Place half the vegetables in a dish.

  3. Sprinkle the fillet with chopped dill, lemon juice, and cognac on both sides.

  4. Place the fillet on the bed of vegetables.

  5. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 24 hours.

Make the sauce

  1. Remove eyes and gills from the fish head.

  2. Place the fish head in a pan with the bones, cover with water and simmer 20 minutes.

  3. Melt the butter and stir in the flour.

  4. Add the stock, marinades with vegetables and dill.

  5. Stir in the sour cream.

Poach and serve

  1. Poach in salted water about 10 minutes.

  2. Transfer the fish to a serving platter.

  3. Nap with the sauce.

  4. Garnish with lemon wedges and dill sprigs.

  5. Serve with boiled potatoes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1083Calories
54 gProtein
41 gFat
124 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Salmon100g cooked208
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Sea Troutnot in our table0
Cognacnot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Dill + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Cucumber + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Tomato + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Leek + cucumbertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Tomato + dilltop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together511 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sea trout fillet
Forms the main body of the dish, cooked gently by poaching after marinating.
Flour
Thickens the butter and stock into a smooth sauce by gelatinizing with heat.
Sour cream
Adds richness and a slight tang to the sauce, softened by stirring in at the end.
Leek
Adds mild aromatic flavour to the marinade as it sits with the fish.
Lemon juice
Acidity firms the surface of the fish and brightens the marinade's flavour.
Butter
Fat that carries flavour into the sauce and forms the base for the roux.

The step that matters

Poach in salted water about 10 minutes. Fish proteins set and turn opaque at moderate heat, and overcooking squeezes out moisture and leaves it dry and firm. Keep the water gently simmering and check the fillet early.

Swap the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sea trout, fish, tomato, cucumber, dill, lemon, sauce):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Leekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sea trout, fish, tomato, cucumber, dill, lemon, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

You might also like

Tomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesLemon SauceLemon Sauce236 recipesFried FishFried Fish120 recipesCream of Tomato SoupCream of Tomato Soup107 recipes