Rainbow Trout on the Cast Iron Griddle

New thing today, made rainbow trout on the cast iron griddle. A coworker had fished and had extra trout so wanted to see if I wanted some. I said sure and he delivered! He asked if I wanted him to clean and gut the fish first. Thank God he asked and offered because I have no idea how to do that.

Anyway the first photo is the fish he gave me - in the bag, gutted and sort of gross and slimy eely feeling. Even just holding them in the bag felt sorta gross. Then I rinsed them more and ewwwww the eely slimy feeling again, but shock wore off and it was ok.

Next I put salt & pepper on the outside and lemon slices on the inside with some squeezed lemon on the trout.

I lined our griddle with foil & oil, heated it up, then put the fish on. Guesstimated cooking time - maybe 8-12 minutes on each side.

The meat was cooked and tasted tender and good. Also more lemon flavor than salt (I like salt) but it was quite good! Tasted fresh!

Then I skinned the thing and crisp cooked the skin with lots o salt and munched it - yum. Filipino roots showing. Also I decided to just take out the bone and head and just refrigerate the fish meat leftovers.

Overall a successful first! This is not the first fresh rainbow trout I've had, but it was the first time I ever cooked it, and over the cast iron griddle too. Very wild and exciting. Adventure!