Trout in a Parcel with Lemon, Fennel & Crème Fraîche

A rainbow trout is a thing of beauty: bluish-green torpedo body adorned with dazzling scales that catch the sun’s rays and speckled with black spots on the back and fins. To quote Arnold Gingrich, ‘a trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it”, and so we did. There is just something whiz-bang about seeing a fish emerge from a paper cocoon all gloriously stuffed and steaming with French opulence; its death a mere acumen for its resurrection. Everyone likes to receive parcels containing goodies, and the truite en papillote is one parcel that has nothing fishy about it and is sure to get anyone hooked.

(Recipe courtesy of Rachel Khoo)