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Barbecue Trout
A delicious open air meal, cooked in the grounds of this Orange winery.
ingredients
2 x 400g fresh whole trout, cleaned
2 spring onions (chopped)
10 grapes, halved
Salt
Pepper
Dash of Bloodwood red wine (Cabernet)
2 zuccchini
1 loaf crusty bread
Fresh vine leaves, blanched (use aluminium foil if vine leaves not available)
8 zucchini
Garden Salad
1 butter lettuce
1 mignonette lettuce
2 cups rocket leaves
Fresh mixed herbs, finely chopped
1 rasher bacon, grilled until crispy and chopped
50g walnuts, toasted
Red Wine Dressing
75ml olive oil
15ml balsamic vinegar
15ml Bloodwood red wine
1 clove garlic, crushed
method
Bloodwood Estate was the first vineyard to be established in the Orange district. The property began operating in 1983.
This delicious open air meal, cooked in the grounds of the estate, consists of barbecue trout, grilled zucchini and garden salad with red wine dressing. All the ingredients were grown locally, with much of the product sourced from Bloodwood itself.
Salad dressing
Make salad dressing first as the trout will cook very quickly. Put all ingredients into a jar then add a good pinch of salt and pepper. Place lid on the jar and give a good shake to mix the ingredients.
Garden Salad
Mix lettuce and rocket leaves together with herbs in a large bowl. Add bacon and walnuts for some extra crunch.
Trout
Lay trout onto blanched vine leaves or foil. Stuff trout with spring onions and grapes. Season to taste, then sprinkle with Bloodwood red wine.
Fold vine leaves or foil up around trout to enclose in a parcel, and use string or toothpicks to secure, as required. If using vine leaves, brush with olive oil then barbecue for about six minutes on each side at a medium to high heat.
Slice zucchini in half lengthways and placed on the hotplate, while the trout is cooking. Brush them with olive oil and cook until just tender.
Toss the garden salad with the red wine dressing, and serve together with some hunks of crusty bread. Do not forget the wine, which in this case is a Bloodwood 1995 Cabernet and a Bloodwood 1997 Maurice.
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