Baked Lake Trout with Olives
Baked Lake Trout with a savory olive and herb crust. An easy, elegant, and healthy oven-baked fish dinner ready in under an hour. Get the full recipe.
Baked Lake Trout with Olives
By Walleye Direct
Prep time:
5 minutes
Cook time:
15 minutes
Servings:
2
Ingredients
- 2 portions of lake trout
- Freshly cracked pepper
- Kosher salt
- 3 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 small-medium lemon, zested and juiced
- 1 tsp. cumin
- ¼ tsp. sweet paprika
- ¼ tsp. red pepper flakes, or to taste
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- ¼ tsp. onion powder
- 1 tbsp. chopped parsley
- Handful of Castelvetrano olives, or similar
- Minced chives for garnish
- Lemon wedges
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. In a baking dish, combine olive oil, lemon zest and juice, cumin, sweet paprika, red pepper flakes, garlic, onion powder and parsley.
- Season lake trout with salt and freshly cracked pepper. Then coat each piece in the marinade and lay skin side down in the baking dish. Tear olives in half and scatter over the fish.
- Bake for about 15 minutes on the middle rack, or until internal temp reaches 140 degrees. Then, garnish with freshly minced chives. Serve immediately with lemon wedges.
