Trout Flan with Lemon Butter Spring Onion Salsa

Photo Courtesy:  I prepared on 30th August 2012 for my

2 daughters who are visiting us. I had learnt to prepare this recipe 

during The Madrid Culinary Institute Le Cordon Bleu in which I

had taken a course on How to Prepare Savoury Flans & Mousses.  

White sparkling Wine; from Prosecco D.O.C. Designation of Origin Veneto, Italia.

Trout Flan with Lemon Butter Spring Onion Salsa For 4 Persons :

Special equipment:

4 round molds at 8 cm. diameter x 4 cm. height

Aluminum Foil

Ingredients.

fresh parsley to adorn

300 grams of fresh trout without skin and bones

1/4 tsp. salt

a tiny dry red chili pepper or red pepper flakes

1 egg beaten lightly

150 ml. Cream

200 Ml. whole Milk

1) preheat oven to 160 degrees centigrade

2) cut 4 pieces of aluminum foil to fit  into the base of the 4 molds

3) Butter the foil in each mold

4) Place the molds in the refrigerator

5) to prepare the Flan; slice the fresh trout in 1 cm. chunks and in a Food Processor, add a pinch of salt and a little dry red chili pepper and 1 egg beaten lightly and combine the ingredients until you have a creamy fine consistency

6) Now add the cream and the milk and combine in Food Processor until you have a "thick batter like consistency"

7) Place the Trout Flan in the Molds taken from the Refrigerator

8) Place the molds filled with flan inside a small cassserole with a cover and the bottom of the casserole should be filled with water and bake in oven 15 to 20 minutes.

The Salsa :

1 shallot finely minced

the juice of 1 lemon

150 grams butter cold and sliced

1 tblsp. and 1 tsp.. finely minced spring onion for garnish and a little for the sauce

1) sauté the shallot in butter and add  the lemon juice

and let sauté for 5 mins approx. until there is no liquid.

2) add 1 tblsp. spring onion and sauté a minute or two until tender

3) stir and drizzle on flan and adorn with cold minced spring onion

SERVE WITH :  bread sticks or crackers or crusty warm bread of choice and a bottle of Prosecco White Sparkling Wine.

A lovely light lunch.

Enjoy.

Marge.

Ciao Ordo,

Buenas Tardes,

This is a Wow Compliment. Thank you so much. I believe you can put my name in your member subscription list. Have you ever done any trout or cod or salmon flans or fish mousses before ?

My daughters are visiting us,  and we had this for lunch this afternoon with some Prosecco. It is very light. Not fishy at all. 

Interesting; I have travelled to Argentina several times. The Vet, my husband, is a specialist in Bovine medicine and nutrition and he has conventions and investigative research in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Sao Paulo. When I can, I come along and go tasting ! I had also studied Spanish there in the 1980 as part of my University Language Programme.

Kind regards,

Saludos,

Marge.  

Kaneo.

This is the trout flan I prepared for lunch today, just as printed above.

Very light of texture and lovely taste.

Marge.

Kaneo,

Yes, Margaux prepared this dish on the 30th August 2012 for her two daughters who are visiting and they took the photo for me.

I believe that since we are in totally different parts of the globe, our availability to different products could play a role in the results of a dish, and shall be quite different.

Have a nice Labor Day Wkend.

Marge.

Chef Ed,

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Always appreciate your coaching.

Ciao, Marge.

Kaneo,

Clarification of ingredients & Texture Obtained:

Fresh Parsley For Adorning

300 grams of Trout without skin & without bones

1/4 tsp. salt to taste

a little dried red chili pepper or fresh, or cayenne or chili flakes to one´s taste

1 Large Egg ( regular hen / chicken egg )

150 ml. Cream ( heavy cream )

200 ml. Whole Milk ( regular whole cow milk ); ( *** not goat nor ewe milk )

Texture of the Trout Flan:

 This is not really a cream cheese spread type  texture.

It is more like a Flan on the exterior than a creamy mousse or spread.

However, the interior,  is firm yet  creamy.   

Hope this assists.

Have a nice Labor Day Wkend.

Marge.

Chef Ed,

Thanks for your post. How true about colloquial names for recipes.

To top it off Ed, I had prepared this the other day in Puglia, Italy.

Flans, custards, spreads, dips and mousse: certainly colloquial and all in some way, interchangeable name wise.

This classic recipe is French in actuality, however, my daughters enjoy it so much, that they offered to drive me to the province of Molise, the interior for Trout, one province north of Puglia.

Really turned out lovely Ed.

All my best for a lovely Labor Day Wkend.

Marge.

Nico and Phatch,

I am a publishing writer and I receive many photos as many writers & reporters do  from  uncountable Bar and Restaurant Owners as well as hotels, and they are photos, not slides. My cell phone is a great tool, however, the photos it takes are mediocre.

The photo of the grilled Cod Fish Pil Pil with garlic Canapé is from a Tavern in the city of Bilbao in the Spanish Basque Country.

At the moment, I cannot tell you which Tavern, as that photo was given to me a few years ago and I am in  Italy for another week.

Many times, the Photographers give the Taverns copies of the photos they take after they locally publish in their vicinities.

2ndly, The Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism provided me with some food photos for a photo courtesy. The Ceo of this organization and I know each other and he has always provided me with photos and we have never had any problems before.

Perhaps, I have to request a Release of Photo Courtesy and look into further.
 

This does not excuse the loud manner in which, this discussion has come about, as it is improper and should be handled via email or private message.

None the less, this is a matter to discuss in  Private not on a Forum as it can have a negative reaction to membership and new members.

If you wish to discuss this matter, let us do it off line.

Thank you kindly.

Marge.