-Smoked Trout (preferably fresh caught)

-cream cheese

-sour cream

-fresh chives

-salt and pepper

So this is another super easy dish to make. To start, your gonna wanna smoke a fresh caught trout. I did mine over apple chips and smoked it at 180 degrees for 2 hours. yes you can brine it prior to smoking it and that can help with flavor for sure, in this case I did not brine it and it still came out amazing.

After your trout is smoked you want to carefully pull the skin off and pull all meat from the fish and set aside in a bowl to cool. Now I did use about a 3lb trout, so if you are using smaller trout you may want to use 2-3 for this recipe. After all the smoke trout has cooled, add equal parts of sour cream and cream cheese to the bowl and gentle fold until it is thoroughly mixed. Then add salt and pepper to taste.

Now to get the killer presentation that I did in the above photo, you’re gonna line a smaller bowl with plastic wrap, and packed it with the smoked trout dip. After that you can flip the bowl onto a plate, remove the bowl, and carefully remove the plastic wrap. If done correctly you will end up with a perfectly molded pile of smoked trout dip. You can then garnish with with sliced fresh chives, sprinkled on top, and add sliced bread or crackers top the plate for dipping.