Trout Recipe with Garlic Lemon Butter Herb Sauce - simple and delicious way to cook fish, especially if you're in a hurry! The whole recipe takes only 30 minutes. Italian herb seasoning, chopped fresh parsley and garlic give great flavor to the fish! Healthy, low-carb dinner rich in lean protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
Trout fillets are usually pretty thin which makes them perfect for cooking on stove top in a skillet. One of the best trout recipes I've tried is simply cooking the trout in the skillet in olive oil, and then adding garlic, lemon juice, white wine, fresh parsley and butter. That's it! Simple and delicious.
What makes this trout recipe work:
- The ingredient list for this trout recipe is short and simple.
- The trout itself is such a delicate fish with a great flavor, it doesn't need too many ingredients or special technique to enhance it. So, just cook it in a large skillet on stove top with olive oil and butter, garlic, butter, lemon juice, white wine, fresh parsley.
- The cooking times are short since trout fillets are usually pretty thin. This trout recipe takes only 30 minutes from start to finish.
I have also made this recipe using the type of fish I've never cooked with before - Arctic Char. Arctic Char looks very similar to trout, and it's closely related to both salmon and trout. Therefore, this recipe will also work with salmon and arctic char. Very easy and versatile!
Other trout recipes
- Another simple way to cook trout is simply to enhance it with capers, garlic, lemon and butter. I combined just those ingredients to make this easy and delicious Trout with Caper-Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce. And yes, I used steelhead trout for this recipe but you can use a regular trout.
- I made this recipe with salmon - but it is easily adaptable for trout: Garlic Parmesan Crusted Salmon and Asparagus
Trout with Garlic Lemon Butter Herb Sauce
Ingredients
- 1.5 pounds trout or salmon, or arctic char - 2 large fish fillets with skin on the bottom
- 2 tablespoons olive oil more, if needed
- 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning (dried thyme, oregano, parsley, combined together)
- ¼ teaspoon salt to taste
- 4 garlic cloves diced
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice freshly squeezed
- 2 tablespoons white wine
- 2 tablespoons butter softened
- 2 tablespoons parsley chopped
Instructions
- Season the top of fish fillets with Italian herb seasoning and salt (generously). Fish fillets will have skins on the bottom - no need to season the skins.
- In a large skillet (large enough to fit 2 fish fillets), heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil on medium heat until heated but not smoking. To the hot skillet with olive oil, add fish fillets skin side up - flesh side down. Cook the flesh side of the fish for about 3-5 minutes on medium heat, making sure the oil does not smoke, until lightly browned.
- Flip the fillets over to the other side, skin side down (add more oil, if needed). Cook for another 2-4 minutes on medium heat (to prevent oil from burning).
- Remove the skillet from heat, close with the lid, and let the fish sit for 5-10 minutes, covered, in the skillet, until flaky and cooked through completely.
- After the fish is cooked through, off heat, using spatula, carefully remove fillets to the plate, separating the fish from the skin. Carefully remove or scrape the fish skin off the bottom of the pan, making sure to leave all the cooking oils in the pan.
- Add diced garlic, lemon juice, and white wine to the same pan with oil. Cook on medium-low heat for about 1 minute, until garlic softens a bit. Remove from heat. Add 1 tablespoon of chopped parsley, and 2 tablespoons of butter, off heat, to the sauce, stirring, until the butter melts and forms a creamy mixture.
- Add fish to the pan, spoon sauce over the fish, top the fish and sauce with the remaining 1 tablespoon of parsley, and serve.
Nutrition
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Great recipe. I have never made fish before - ever!! So I wasn’t expecting too much - but was pleasantly surprised that my children liked the trout. The second time I made this I didn’t have white wine, so I used red - fantastic!!!
I am very happy to hear you enjoyed this recipe! Thank you for the comment! And, good to know that using red wine works fine, too!
I absolutely love trout and this recipe! I usually keep it simple and just cook in brown butter. This is next level. Thank you! This will be my go to!
Carlette, I am so glad you love this recipe. Thank you for stopping by and letting me know - it means a lot!
LOVE LOVE this recipe!
Looking forward to your other recipes.
Thank you for sharing.
Sylvia, thank you for such a positive comment - I appreciate it! Enjoy other recipes!
I recently bought trout and thankfully found your recipe. Thank you so much for creating and sharing this recipe. It's delicious! I live at 7000 ft so I was a bit nervous about taking the trout off the heat for 5-10 minutes to let it cook as things cool very quickly at this altitude so I left it on the hot burner for a few minutes then moved it off. The fish was cooked perfectly.
I have enough fish so I'm making it again tonight 🙂
Great recipe. Thanks again.
I am happy you found my recipe and liked it! :). Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to share this positive comment! I so appreciate it!! 🙂
DELICIOUS! my favorite fish recipe
Ashley, I am so pleased to hear that! 🙂
This is delicious and easy to prepare. We loved it!
Lena, I am so glad you enjoyed it!
I honestly don't care for trout, or even fish really. But I caught a large Rainbow Trout so I had to eat it. This is my first time ever cooking trout and I followed this recipe. It was a huge hit! I cooked it a month ago and people are still talking about it. It made me look like a pro even though it was my very first time cooking fish. Even I enjoyed eating it. Needless to say I give all credit to Julia's recipe.
I highly recommend this recipe to anybody scouring the web. Stop here and use this recipe, it is awesome.
Wow! Your comment made my day! So glad you found my recipe and tried it! 🙂
Incredible dish. I used sea trout I caught from the patches in Key Largo. I poured the lemon garlic butter sauce over the fish and topped with parsley. I served it skin on. Will repeat weekly until o run out of fish!
Rebecca, I am so happy you tried this recipe and enjoyed it! 🙂