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Trout and char: how they are produced in Trentino – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Trout and char: mountain fish. It often happens that the freshwater fish is a little undervalued compared to the sea one. And it’s a shame, because in Italian rivers and lakes there are species that, if treated with the right attention, become delicious food. Precisely the desire to bring these fish into vogue is what is passionate about Daniele Leonardi, running the Trota Oro company with his familyfounded in the late 1980s by his parents in Preore, on the outskirts of Adamello Brenta Natural Park, in Trentino. They work trout, arctic char and whitefish, taking care of them from the breeding phase to processing. «The most important thing, to have a good product, is the raw material explains Daniele who, like his brother and sister, grew up here and since he was a boy spent the summer seasons working with the family, and knows every detail well. phase of life and transformation of fish.

Rainbow trout in the Golden Trout tanks: together with these fish, the Trentino company mainly processes Arctic char and whitefish, which are caught immediately before being processed.

Marina Spironetti

«At Trota Oro we work with farmed specimens in very cold waters, daughters of the Alpine glaciers: here, they are left to grow, slowly, without any food forcing, so that they maintain perfect health and firm, tasty meat and a character closely linked to the territory. The breeding is very naturalfrom low density to respect for the environment. The company closely follows the farms from which the fish come which, until the moment of fishing, swim in tanks with optimal temperatures and characteristics.”

Recipe Pistachio tagliatelle and char eggs – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

375 g flour 00
10 egg yolks
pistachio paste
peeled pistachios
char eggs
shallot
extra virgin olive oil
salt

Duration: 1 h 40 min

Level: Middle

Dose: 4 people

For the recipe of tagliatelle with pistachio and char eggs, add the egg yolks, 20 g of pistachio paste (a spoonful) and a pinch of salt to the flour; mix the ingredients with 30 g of water or a little more, depending on the type of flour, and work to obtain a homogeneous paste. Wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for an hour. Then roll it out into thin sheets
and cut the noodles, with the machine or with the knife.
For the dressing: Chop a small shallot and let it dry in a pan with a little oil, wet with two tablespoons of water and then dissolve a tablespoon of pistachio paste and cook for a few moments: it must remain fluid. Boil the tagliatelle in boiling salted water for a minute and then sauté in the dressing, distribute them on the plates and complete them with a little chopped pistachios and char eggs.

Recipe fillets of char in bacon with sparkling wine sauce – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

2 pcs chars
250 g carrots
170 g broccoli
150 g Speck Alto Adige Igp
100 g breadcrumbs
1 pcs red apple
1 pc celery stalk
pz leek
parsley
sage
Rotari Brut sparkling wine
extra virgin olive oil
salt
pepper
butter

Duration: 1 h

Level: Middle

Dose: 4 people

For the recipe of char fillets in bacon with sparkling wine sauce, clean the vegetables; divide the broccoli into florets and cut the rest into slices. Blanch the carrots and celery in boiling water for 2 minutes. Drain with a slotted spoon and boil the broccoli in the same water for 1 minute. 1. Brown some leek rings in a pan with a drizzle of oil for 1 minute; add the blanched vegetables, add salt and pepper and sauté for another minute.
Clean the char and fill them up. Peel the fillets, remove the thorns and cut them in half. Chop a sprig of parsley and 5-6 sage leaves and mix them
with breadcrumbs. Sprinkle the half fillets with the aromatic breadcrumbs, pressing it to make it adhere well. Then wrap each one in 4-5 slices of aligned and slightly overlapping speck. Cook the fillets in a pan with a knob of bubbling butter for 2 minutes per side. Fade with half a glass of sparkling wine, then remove the fish. Melt another knob of butter in the pan and switch off after 1 minute. Serve the char with the vegetables, the sliced apple and the sparkling wine sauce.