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Oatmeal Crusted Loch Trout & Scrambled Eggs

Published on March 16, 2013 • Last updated October 27, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia
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In light of the current UK food scandal with hidden ingredients in cheaper ready made meals this month’s Breakfast Club, hosted by Heidi from Heidi Roberts Kitchen Talk  is all about shopping local. At least one ingredient in our breakfast must include something sourced within a radius of ten miles from our home.

The Breakfast Club blog hop is the brainchild of Helen from Fuss Free Flavours and aims to promote breakfast as something “more than tea and toast”.

So without further adieu, here is my locally sourced breakfast: line caught Shetland loch trout crusted with Scottish pinhead oatmeal served with scrambled eggs and a generous grinding of Shetland seaweed.

We have an elderly ex-whaler neighbour with a passion for loch trout fishing. He loves the quiet solitude of a local loch, just 2.5 miles as the crow flies, from his doorstep. Last summer he brought us quite a few of his catches, and I defrosted the last of them for this breakfast, and, I shall admit, I baked some for the cat, much to her delight.

Gently frying loch trout crusted in pinhead oatmeal like this results in a moist, tender, fall off the bone dish. This is handy because trout contains zillions of pesky little bones – done right you should have no problem flaking the fish.

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The eggs were sourced from a friend of mine who lives approximately 6 miles away (as the crow flies) who keeps Shetland hens (in addition to her many, many other talents – do have a look at her blog Jaydee’s Ramblings). The eggs were a gorgeous selection of colours with varying shades of green to brown and white. There was even a double yolker (I scrambled that one)! I’d love to keep hens one day, but we have to wait until our financial situation improves and we have a garden big enough to accommodate them.

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398289_414792981886409_557102123_nShetland seaweed is sustainably harvested by a local company called Bod Ayre. It’s my new favourite cooking ingredient and I put it in nearly everything, from breakfast smoothies to homemade tagliatelle to gingerbread houses. It’s packed full of nutrients and is a great way to add a little extra goodness and colour to a meal.

You may have noticed that this is a high protein breakfast (where’s the fruit?!). Research (ie: a quick Internet search) has shown high protein breakfasts may have a multitude of health benefits, from feeling fuller for longer (meaning you are less likely to snack before lunch), to improved energy, memory and, some sites say, a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Besides, in keeping this breakfast local there will be no fruit – there are no fruits that grow in March in Shetland that I am aware of!

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Oatmeal Crusted Trout & Scrambled Eggs
by Elizabeth
A simple, high-protein breakfast made with local ingredients.
Ingredients
  • 1 loch trout, gutted and cleaned
  • 3 Shetland eggs
  • 25 grams plain flour
  • 50 grams Scottish pinhead oatmeal
  • 1 tbsp Shetland Dairy full fat milk
  • 1 tbsp Shetland Dairy butter
  • Shetland Seaweed Sprinkle, to garnish
  • sea salt
  • freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
1. Wash fish and pat dry with a paper towel.2. Dredge fish in plain flour, dip in 1 beaten egg and roll in pinhead oatmeal.3. Heat butter in a non-stick pan and fry fish until the oatmeal is golden, about 5-7 minutes, on each side.4. Meanwhile whisk milk with the remaining two eggs. Season well with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.5. Scramble the eggs in a small non-stick frying pan. Additional oil shouldn’t be required.6. Serve the fish and eggs with a generous grinding of seaweed over the top.
Details

Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 30 mins Yield: Serves 1

Category: Fin & Shell, Recipe

About Elizabeth Atia

Daydream adventurer. Expat Canadian. Foodie. Calls Shetland home.

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Comments

  1. Herbert Appleby

    October 2, 2015 at 11:51 pm

    what a delightful dish!!

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  2. Denise Slater

    August 10, 2015 at 4:45 pm

    Loving this 🙂 Our son has started fishing, and I’m unsure of how to serve fish other than battered!

    Reply
  3. Ursula Hunt

    May 12, 2015 at 11:23 am

    Bet that trout fresh out the loch was delicious

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  4. Annaloa Hilmarsdottir

    March 22, 2015 at 10:59 am

    This sounds so delicious and romantic, I will use it if we catch any fish this weekend.

    Reply
  5. Maya Russell

    March 6, 2015 at 6:38 am

    The dish is beautiful, so are the hens!

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  6. Paul Wilson

    January 30, 2015 at 1:17 am

    Haven’t had trout for ages, looks delicious.

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  7. rebecca nisbet

    August 24, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    this is something i would love to wake up to in the morning, yiummy!

    Reply
  8. glenn hutton

    August 6, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    Although this is billed as breakfast, I consider this an anytime meal, which looks both amazing and most importantly full of protein!

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  9. talesofpiglingbland

    March 16, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    Oh my goodness. That looks SO good. I hadn’t thought of using pinhead oatmeal like that and I ove trout. My aunt lives up near Tighnabruaich (sp?) and gets amazing fish there.

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    • Elizabeth

      March 16, 2013 at 9:11 pm

      I wouldn’t have thought of it either! The tin of pinhead oatmeal I bought recently suggested it as a coating for fish, so I thought I’d try it out. 🙂

      Reply
  10. Louise at Cake and Calico

    March 16, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    This looks so good – I know it’s meant for breakfast but I would eat that gorgeous looking plateful at any time of day or night. I love smoked mackerel with oatmeal and pepper crust but I’ve never tried trout. It’s definitely on my ‘to do soon’ list!

    Reply
    • Elizabeth

      March 16, 2013 at 3:51 pm

      Thanks 🙂 It’s nice to know it’s all locally sourced too. Keeps the food miles down! There’s so much good food to be had right on our doorsteps.

      Reply
    • Louise at Cake and Calico

      March 16, 2013 at 8:50 pm

      Fresh, local fish is just the best. My husband took me fishing at a posh hotel for a birthday present one year (I know – some definite lateral thinking going on there gift-wise) and I caught a trout which they filleted and served us for dinner that night. It was out of this world!

      Reply
    • Elizabeth

      March 16, 2013 at 9:10 pm

      That sounds like a perfect birthday present!

      Reply

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