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Taimiņš vārīts

Blue trout (truite au bleu)

  • Serves 4
  • about 40 minutes
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1796Taiminsch wahrihts.

Modernizētslpp. 173–174 · PDF 187–188
4 porcijas

The book gives 2 whole onions; the other amounts are ours.

Method

6 soļi
  1. Put the water, salt, onions, bay leaves and peppercorns in a wide pan or fish kettle and simmer for 15 minutes.
  2. Meanwhile gut the fish through a slit in the belly and pull out the gills. Rinse only the inside and handle the fish as little as possible. Don't scale them or rub the skin, because the slime on it is what turns blue.
  3. Lay the fish in a dish and pour the warm vinegar over them. The skin turns slate blue.
  4. Slide the fish and the vinegar into the simmering liquid and keep it just below the boil: 8–10 minutes for small trout, 20–30 minutes for a large sea trout. They are done when the dorsal fin pulls out easily and the thickest part reaches 63 °C.
  5. Lift the fish out, sprinkle with a little cold water and cover with a sheet of baking parchment for a few minutes to hold in the steam.
  6. Lay the fish on a dish strewn with parsley. Serve with vinegar, white wine and the lemon halves on the side.

Notes

"Boiled blue"

the book prints silli, which in its spelling is zili, "blue", the German blau gesotten. The vinegar reacts with the natural slime on very fresh fish and turns the skin blue-grey in the pot. Fish that has been scaled, washed hard or kept for days won't turn blue, but it still tastes good.

What the book says vs. what we added

the gutting, washing, vinegar poured over, salted water with 2 whole onions, bay leaves and peppercorns, the cold-water sprinkle, the paper cover, the parsley and the vinegar, wine and lemons on the side are all the book's. The amounts and times are ours.

Which fish? Taimiņš is the sea trout (Salmo trutta), called Lachsforelle (salmon trout) in Mühlenbach and Endzelīns' dictionary. Baltic sea trout is sold in Latvia; elsewhere use brown or rainbow trout, ideally bought live or killed the same day.

Variants

03-074 poaches the trout in spiced red wine instead; 03-075 uses boiled trout for a baked dish.

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