Trout and Steamed Root Vegetables in Parchment Packets

This is one our favorite recipes to make on a weeknight. It is quick, healthy and requires hardly any cleanup. 

Trout and Steamed Root Vegetables in Parchment Packets

Recommended ingredients...raid your fridge! 

trout or salmon, (we got ours from Quality Seafood)

meyer lemons, South Texas lemons available at 

purple cauliflower, broccoli, beet greens, turnips, kohlrabi, Johnson's Backyard Garden at Austin Farmers' Market on Wednesdays or Saturdays and CSA membership

olive oil, Texas Olive ranch

salt and pepper

sorrel, thyme and oregano, our garden

parchment paper, I like the unbleached kind at Wheatsville

1. Preheat your oven to 375. 

2. Rinse and chop your vegetables so that they are all a similar size. 

3. Rinse the fish and pat dry. Add salt and pepper, olive oil and several slices of lemon. 

4. Add a piece of parchment paper for each fillet onto a baking sheet. 

5. Add the vegetables on top of the fish and wrap up the parchment as if you were wrapping a piece of candy. 

6. Bake for 30 minutes and be careful when opening the packets so that the steam doesn't burn you!