Flounder is a quite valuable fish, as its meat has a delicate flavor and is very useful. In particular, it contains a lot of iodine and other elements necessary for the body. However, not all cooking methods are equally good for this fish. If you fry it, it will become a high-calorie dish, besides fried foods are not considered harmless. Boiled and stewed flounder is not tasty enough. So the best way to cook flounder is to bake. Flounder, baked in the oven, tasty, healthy and at the same time very appetizing looks. The advantages of this dish include ease of preparation.
Cooking Features
In order to make a tasty dish of flounder, it is not enough to find a good recipe. You need to know a few little secrets to help you get a perfect result.
- Flounder may have iodine too pronounced. Milk will help to neutralize it. To do this, lower the fish into it for about an hour, then remove, wash and dry.
- Fresh fish should always be preferred to frozen fish. Firstly, it is easier to assess its quality and freshness. Secondly, it remains juicy when baking. However, most often housewives have to be content with frozen fish. Before buying it, you should make sure that the ice crust is not too large, and the fish under it looks even and intact. Thawed flounder should be in the refrigerator - only in this case, it will not lose its juiciness.
- Most often on sale you can find already gutted flounder, but sometimes this responsibility falls on the hostess’s shoulders. When cutting fish, be sure to remove the insides by cutting the belly, cut off the fins and remove the gills. In the event that you are going to bake the whole fish, it is not necessary to cut off the head. Then it remains to wash the carcass and pat dry with a towel. This should be done in the event that you purchased an already cut fish.
- To make the flounder dish more succulent, it can be baked in foil or in a sleeve. Will help solve the problem and fatty sauce. For example, the recipes of flounder baked under sour cream are popular among hostesses. Vegetables, too, add a dish of juiciness.
- Flounder will be softer and more pleasant to taste if, before baking, to rub it with salt, seasonings and sprinkle with lemon juice, leaving to marinate for at least 20 minutes.
You can bake the flounder in the oven in whole or in pieces, there are recipes that use fillets.
Flounder, baked in the oven entirely
Composition:
- flounder (carcass without a head) - 1, 5 kg;
- butter - 50 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- parsley - 10-20 g;
- fresh dill - 10-20 g;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Rinse thawed flounder with running water, cut off the fins, pat dry with paper napkins and place on the dish or chopping board with the yellowish side up. Make across several incisions at a distance of about 2-3 cm from each other.
- Rub the carcass from all sides with salt and pepper, sprinkle with juice squeezed from half a lemon. Leave for 20 minutes.
- Remove the oil from the refrigerator, measuring the required amount. Leave in a warm place to soften.
- Cut the remaining half of lemon into halves, not too thin.
- Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil. Put the flounder on it and place for 15 minutes in the oven, preheated to 220 degrees.
- Take out the fish. Insert the lemon slices into the slots. Return to oven for another 25 minutes.
- Finely chop the parsley and dill, mix them with butter.
- Lubricate the flounder with oil by removing lemon slices, leave it in the oven off for another couple of minutes.
This is the easiest recipe for baked flounder. Make it a tasty and beautiful dish for everyone.
Flounder on the onion pillow
Composition:
- fillet of flounder - 0.5 kg;
- onions - 0, 3 kg;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- olive oil - 40 ml;
- parsley - 50 g;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash fillet of flounder, blot with a napkin. Separate from skin and cut into portions.
- Wash the lemon, cut it in half, squeeze the juice.
- Rub each piece with salt and spices, sprinkle with lemon juice. About half of the juice is not yet used.
- Leave on the flounder for half an hour, so that it is marinated.
- Peel the onions, cut into half rings. Fill with boiling water, drain the water in a minute, squeeze the onion.
- Lay a foil on the bottom of the refractory mold. Well grease it with olive oil. Put on the foil bow.
- Chop the parsley, pour over the onion. Sprinkle with the remaining butter and lemon juice, mixing them first.
- Place the flounder pieces on the onion cushion. Cover with foil.
- Place the fish in an oven heated to 220 degrees. Bake it for 35 minutes. 20 minutes after the start of cooking, reduce the temperature in the oven to 180 degrees, and 10 minutes until cooked, remove the foil from the mold so that the fish is covered with a delicious crust.
Serve fish cooked according to this recipe with buckwheat, rice or vegetable garnish. Be sure to lay out the plates and onions on which it is baked.
Flounder baked in sour cream with potatoes
Composition:
- fillet of flounder - 1 kg;
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- bulb onion - 0, 2 kg;
- sour cream - 0, 3 l;
- vegetable oil - 30 ml;
- hot peppers - 1 pc .;
- salt, seasonings - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and dry the fillet of flounder. Separate from skin, cut into small pieces.
- Wash the potatoes and boil until half cooked, peel and cut into small slices.
- Cut pepper into small ringlets and mix it with potato slices.
- Peel the onions, cut them into small pieces, pour them with boiling water, squeeze them.
- Mix onions with sour cream.
- At the bottom of the refractory container, lay the foil, lubricate it with oil. Sprinkle with salt and seasoning.
- Place the flounder fillet on the foil, salt it and season.
- Cover the fish with a mixture of sour cream and onion.
- Put in an oven heated to 180 degrees and bake for 20 minutes.
- Place the potatoes on top and place in the oven for another 20 minutes.
A dish prepared according to this recipe can only be decomposed into plates.
Flounder baked with vegetables
Composition:
- flounder - 1, 2 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 2 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- processed cheese - 120-160 g;
- parsley - 50 g;
- vegetable oil - 30 ml;
- seasoning for fish, salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- The flounder carcass, if it is not gutted, gut and clean. Cut off the head and fins. Wash and dry the carcass. Grate it with salt and seasoning, sprinkle well with juice squeezed from whole lemon, and leave to marinate for half an hour.
- Peel carrots and coarsely rub.
- Peel the bulbs and cut them into small pieces.
- Pepper wash, remove seeds. Cut it into small squares.
- Wash the tomatoes and dice. If desired, they can be removed from the skin before.
- Chop parsley finely.
- Stir vegetables and greens.
- Cut the cheese into small cubes, mix with vegetables.
- In a cross-shaped form, lay two sheets of parchment, before that they are well-oiled.
- Put the fish in shape.
- Put the cheese-vegetable mixture on top.
- Heat the oven to 200 degrees and put the form in it. Bake 40 minutes. The first 20 minutes can be baked, covering the form with foil.
Flounder prepared according to this recipe can decorate a festive table and arouse admiration even among the most fastidious guests.
Flounder baked in the oven always looks elegant and appetizing. If you prepare it correctly, then almost everyone will like it, with the possible exception of a person who does not eat fish at all.
