New Safe Catch Trout Fillets
The name Safe Catch says it all.
The Sausalito canned seafood company purports to be the only brand that tests every catch for mercury. Its newest product, Safe Catch Trout Fillets, is tested to a limit of 0.1ppm, more stringent than the recommendation by the Food and Drug Administration. The product has even been given the nod by the American Pregnancy Association.
I had a chance to try the new products, which come in two varieties: Skinless, Smoked Trout Fillets in Water; and Skinless, Smoked Trout Fillets in Sunflower Oil with Chili. The former contains only trout, water, and salt. The latter has only trout, sunflower oil, salt, and chili.
The rainbow trout fillets in both are boneless, mild tasting, tender, and flaky.
The chili oil one even has a whole thin chili pepper in it. On its own, the chili oil trout has a pretty good kick of heat. Drain the water from the water-packed trout before using, but hang on to the whole chili and chili oil in the other to drizzle over grilled bread, scramble into eggs, or fold into a dip.
I chopped up the chili finely, adding it, along with the oil and trout to pasta embellished with cherry tomatoes, garlic, parsley, and basil for an easy and delicious dinner.
Each 4-ounce tin ($7.49), which serves one, is a convenient source of protein with 14 to 15 grams of it, and only 1 gram of saturated fat. The trout in water has 110 calories and 430 milligrams sodium; the one in oil has 120 calories and 420 milligrams sodium.
Look for the trout at Sprouts, Safeway, Nob Hill, and Zanotto’s markets.