This Elegant (and Buttery!) French Fish Dinner Comes Together in Just 10 Minutes

Ingredients (8)

• Four 4- to 6-ounce (113 to 140g) skin-on, boneless trout fillets or other thin white-fleshed fish fillets
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt, divided; for table salt use half as much by volume
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 3 tablespoons (24g) cornstarch
• 8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces
• 1/2 cup raw sliced almonds (2 ounces; 56g)
• 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest plus 4 teaspoons juice from 1 lemon
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley leaves and tender stems