Blue Corn Pan-fried Trout

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup blue cornmeal
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 tablespoons chimayo chili powder (or more depending on taste, other med.hot chili powder can be subsituted)
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk
• 4 trout, headed,boned and gutted (kept whole)
• 1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine
• 1 onion, diced
• 3 slices thick sliced bacon, diced
• 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup corn oil

Recipe

• 1 combine cornmeal, salt and chili powder in pie plate.
• 2 in a seperate pie plate (or bowl) beat together egg and mik.
• 3 dip trout in egg/milk mixture and then in the cornmeal mixture and place on seperate plate.
• 4 in large frying pan (cast iron is best) heat butter (or margarine) and oil.
• 5 when pan is hot add trout and cook over medium heat for 4-6 minutes per side or browned and done.
• 6 remove and keep warm.
• 7 in same pan, cook onion and bacon until bacon colors.
• 8 add vinegar to pan and boil until vinegar is reduced by half (5 minutes).
• 9 pour onion/bacon mixture over trout and serve.