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The best way to cook flounder is to bake it in the oven. The meat turns out very tender and tasty. To remove the unpleasant odor from the fish, you need to marinate it and pour lemon juice on it. I also really like to bake sea bass in the oven. An excellent dish is made from baked cod.
But let's return to the fish that we will talk about today. Her meat is very healthy. There are not enough fingers on your hands to count all the minerals, vitamins, and amino acids that it contains.
Flounder is a low-calorie fish. It is used in weight loss programs and for proper nutrition. It should also be eaten by people with various diseases. For example, for hypothyroidism, it is indicated because it contains a lot of iodine. Due to the large amount of minerals, it is included in the menu for those with low hemoglobin.
Elderly people should definitely cook a good piece of this fish for lunch twice a week to protect themselves from cancer, heart attack and stroke.
This sea fish is so wonderful, and now we’ll see how it can be deliciously baked in the oven. Go!
Flounder in the oven - how to bake whole flounder
If you have medium-sized carcasses, it is better not to cut them into pieces, but to bake them whole. Then all the juices will be preserved, the fish will become tender, soft and juicy. How to cook it correctly? The answer is in this post.
What to use for the recipe:
- Flounder – 2 carcasses, 400-500 g each
- Lemon – 0.5 pcs.
- Butter – 50-70 g
- Dill – 1 bunch
- Salt, pepper - to taste
- Olive oil – 1-2 tbsp.
Preparation:
1. Wash the fish well and dry it with a paper towel. Use scissors to trim the fins and tails.
2. Using a sharp knife, make oblique, shallow cuts in the skin. They need to be done only on the outer, dark side of the fish. Then the oil, salt and other spices will better penetrate inside the carcass and it will turn out very tasty when baked.
3. Salt the carcasses on both sides. Add a little pepper and place in a bowl for 10 minutes to marinate the meat better.
4. Then cover the baking sheet with foil and grease with any vegetable or olive oil. Place the fish on a baking sheet so that the bottom, white side lies on the foil.
5. Pour a little vegetable oil on top of the carcass and use a silicone brush to lubricate the surface of the carcass. Place them in an oven preheated to 220 degrees for just 5 minutes. The skin will form a crust and baking will begin.
6. During this time, knead the butter with finely chopped dill. The oil must first be warmed so that it mixes quickly and evenly with the herbs.
7. After 5 minutes, take out the baking sheet. Baking has just begun, the skin has hardened, the cuts have widened.
8. Now, in order for the unpleasant smell to disappear, both carcasses need to be poured generously with lemon juice. Squeeze half the fruit in your fist and squeeze the juice evenly over the entire surface. Through the cuts, the skin will be well saturated with citric acid and the smell of sea fish will go away.
9. Place the pan back into the oven for 25 minutes, lowering the temperature to 180 degrees.
10. Flounder is ready. Take it out of the oven and thickly grease the surface of the fish with butter and dill. It will penetrate inside through the cuts, which are filled with aromatic dill.
The fish turns out amazing. Very tender, white meat. Juicy, aromatic, well baked. Bon appetit everyone! It’s best to cover it now and keep it there for about 15 minutes. The fish will become softer and better soaked in butter. The smell is simply amazing. Mmm... how delicious!
Fried flounder
The simplest thing you can cook from flounder is to simply fry it in vegetable oil. However, to make fried flounder tasty, you need to know one little secret: remove the dark skin from the fish to get rid of the specific iodine taste of the finished dish.
Remember that when frying flounder, you should place a piece of fish, dark side down, in the pan. The taste of the finished dish will undoubtedly benefit from this.
- Flounder - 1 pc.;
- Sunflower oil - 3 tbsp;
- Onion - 1 pc.;
- Salt and spices - according to taste preferences.
Fried flounder: step-by-step cooking recipe
- Filet the fish. To do this, clean the scales, cut off the head and fins. Then cut along the line of the abdomen, remove the entrails, divide the fish into two parts with a knife, simultaneously removing the spine and bones. Then remove the skin with a sharp movement, prying it with a knife.
- Rinse the fillets under running water and pat dry with paper towels.
- Cut the fillet into portions.
- Mix salt with flour and spices.
- Cut the onion into half rings.
- Pour oil onto the hot surface of the frying pan and heat.
- Bread the fish pieces in flour and place in a frying pan. Fry over low heat on both sides until golden brown. After 5 minutes from the start of frying, add the onion to the pan. Stir it so it doesn't burn.
When the fish is browned on both sides, it’s ready.
Recipe for cooking flounder in foil
I really like baking flounder in foil. If the fish is small, I bake it whole; if it is large, I cut it into pieces and bake each piece separately. And with vegetables and delicious sauce. It turns out simply amazing. Nothing burns, the product is juicy and aromatic. In general - one continuous deliciousness. I advise everyone to cook this way.
Let's take for the recipe:
- Flounder – 1.2 kg
- Lemon – 0.5 pcs.
- Sour cream/mayonnaise – 100 g each
- Cheese – 100 g
- Garlic – 2-3 cloves
- Tomatoes – 3 pcs.
- Vegetable oil – 2-3 tbsp.
- Parsley – 1 bunch
Preparation:
1. Prepare all the necessary products. Focus on the fish first. Rinse it well. It is already sold without a head, so cut off only the tail and fins.
2. Divide the flounder into portions and place in the bowl in which you will marinate it.
3. Squeeze the juice from half a lemon onto the carcasses. Then salt the fish well. Stir and rub the ingredients into the skin. Now give it a chance to marinate, so leave it in the bowl for 15-20 minutes.
4. While the fish is marinating, make the cheese. Grate a piece of hard cheese on a coarse grater and place in a separate bowl. You will need the cheese at the end of baking to get a delicious crispy crust.
5. Now make a dressing from mayonnaise and sour cream. At the same time, do not just mix these two ingredients 1:1, but add to them the zest of half a lemon and 2-3 chopped garlic cloves.
Lightly salt the dressing and pepper to taste. Mix well. It will turn out very aromatic and tasty.
All that remains is to cut the tomatoes into slices, which will give the product even more juiciness.
6. Now you need to combine each piece of fish with the rest of the ingredients, wrap it in foil and put it in the oven.
Grease a sheet of foil with vegetable oil using a silicone brush. Place a piece of flounder in the middle of the foil. Cover it with sour cream and mayonnaise dressing. Place a tomato slice on top.
7. Add a few parsley leaves. You can use any other greens you like. Sprinkle with a handful of grated cheese.
8. Wrap the workpiece in foil, securing its edges tightly. Make several similar products according to the size of your baking dish or baking sheet.
9. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake the flounder for 25-30 minutes. After the time has passed, remove the pan from the oven, cut the foil, bend its edges and place the dish with the fish in the oven for another 10 minutes to brown the cheese crust.
When the crust turns golden brown, remove the dish from the oven. It needs to cool down a bit. Place portions on serving plates and serve. Sprinkle with herbs and add a few fresh tomato slices. You can add a side dish to the fish, for example, delicious mashed potatoes. Bon appetit!
Whole cooked flounder
Flounder in the oven, recipes with photos of which help to visually evaluate the final appearance of the dishes, usually does not require preliminary preparation. You can bake it whole using a small amount of herbs and spices.
What ingredients will you need?
To prepare the whole flounder you will need:
- 1 flounder, about 1 kg in weight, cleaned;
- fine sea salt and pepper;
- 1 small fennel bulb, thinly sliced;
- 1 clove garlic, thinly sliced;
- 1 small red onion, cut into thin half rings;
- 1 kumquat (or tangerine slice), cut into four parts;
- 3-4 slices of lemon;
- 1-2 tbsp. l. white wine.
Step-by-step cooking process
To cook a whole flounder in the oven, you need the following:
- You need to preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Next, you need to rub the fish with a small amount of pepper and salt.
- Place 2-3 sheets of aluminum foil on a large baking sheet, then spread half the fennel, garlic, onion and kumquat on it in an even layer (the same area as the fish will occupy).
- Then you need to place the flounder on top of the vegetables and spread the rest of the above components on it.
- You need to add lemon slices on top, and then lift the edges of the foil, forming sides.
- Next, pour wine over the fish and vegetables and wrap the foil up, but not airtight or tightly. There should be a lot of air inside the package.
- After this, the baking sheet must be placed in the oven and baked for 15-25 minutes, or until the fish is completely soft. The foil must be unfolded very carefully so that the juices do not leak out.
Rules for serving and decoration
It is necessary to remove the kumquat, and arrange the remaining ingredients into portioned plates, add the fish cut into pieces and pour over the juice that has melted during the cooking process.
How to deliciously cook flounder in the oven - step-by-step recipe
Flounder meat is so tender that it is difficult to spoil it with anything when baking. It always turns out to be 5+. But still, there is one trick that will help the fish to be as saturated with spice juices as possible and become incredibly aromatic, piquant and very tasty. If you also try to decorate it beautifully when serving it, there will simply be no limit to the admiration for your talents. Guests and family will praise you in every possible way, ask for recipes, and this will further strengthen your authority as a super-cook.
Let's take for the recipe:
- Flounder – 1 piece (1 kg)
- Lemon – 1 pc.
- Onions – 2-3 pcs.
- Salt - to taste
- Mixed peppers - to taste
- Lettuce and basil for garnish
- Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil – 100 ml
Preparation:
1. First of all, prepare all the ingredients that will be used for the recipe: fish, lemon, salt and pepper, onions and tomatoes, basil, lettuce and vegetable oil.
2 If you are preparing a fish for baking, you need to cut off its head and remove the insides. Rinse the carcass thoroughly.
Removing fins and tail is at your discretion. When frying, these formations must definitely be removed, but for baking they will not interfere.
On the contrary, a whole fish with a tail and fins will look beautiful on a serving dish, so we will not remove them in this recipe.
3. And here is the same little trick that I wrote about at the beginning of the article. Several cuts need to be made along the body of the carcass so that the spices penetrate better into the fish meat.
You can make cuts in different ways: only on one side of the carcass or on both. You can make oblique cuts, or cross-shaped ones. But they don’t have to be deep, that’s the main thing.
Make cross-shaped cuts on the dark skin side. Then turn the fish over and repeat the same cuts on the light side.
4. Now sprinkle the carcass well with salt and pepper well. Pour lemon juice generously over both sides of the flounder.
5. Rub the spices in with your fingers, trying to get them deeper into the meat as you make cuts. Leave the flounder to marinate for 15 minutes.
6. At this time, you need to make a vegetable bed on which the fish will be baked. Then it will never burn.
To do this, cut the onion into slices and divide them into separate rings, which we will soon place on a baking sheet.
The fish has already been marinated and you need to blot it with paper napkins to get rid of excess liquid.
7. Place onion rings on the bottom of the baking sheet. There is no need to salt them. Place the flounder on the onion.
8. Pour sunflower oil generously over the fish and place in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 20-30 minutes.
9. During this time, the fish will be well baked and should be served beautifully. Place fresh lettuce leaves on a plate. In some places, dilute the green coloring with purple basil leaves. Place the prepared flounder carcass on the salad. Arrange the baked onion and sliced tomatoes and lemon wedges.
This is how you can beautifully serve flounder both for your beloved family and dear guests. The fish turns out very tasty because it is saturated with the aromas and taste of a mixture of peppers and lemon. The meat is tender and juicy. Bon appetit!
Crispy flounder with fresh salad
Served over an arugula and fennel salad, this crispy oven-baked fish is delicious and light. This is a versatile and quick dish, ideal for dinner.
What ingredients will you need?
To fry crispy flounder, you will need the following.
For fish:
- 1 egg;
- 4 flounder fillets (from 120 to 200 g each);
- 0.5 tbsp. flour;
- 2 tbsp. l. water;
- black pepper;
- 1 tbsp. breadcrumbs;
- olive oil;
- sea salt.
For the salad:
- 2 tbsp. l. balsamic and red wine vinegar;
- half a clove of garlic, mashed to a paste consistency;
- 0.25 tsp crushed red pepper;
- salt;
- 0.5 tbsp. olive oil;
- 120 g arugula;
- half a red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 small bulbous fennel, thinly sliced.
Step-by-step cooking process
This simple dish is prepared in several stages:
- It is necessary to heat the oven to 220°C.
- In a small bowl, lightly beat the egg with 2 tbsp. l. water, add pepper and salt.
- Next, you need to place the flounder fillets on a baking sheet, tucking the thin edges of each piece down.
- The top part of the fish must be sprinkled with flour, then brushed with the egg mixture, and then covered with breadcrumbs.
- Next, place the baking sheet in the oven; cook the flounder for about 8-12 minutes, until it becomes opaque inside.
- After this, you need to remove from the oven and turn the fish over, leave it on the baking sheet for 30 seconds.
To make the salad you need:
- Combine the balsamic and red wine vinegar, garlic, pepper flakes and a pinch of salt, mix well, and then slowly pour the oil into the mixture.
- Next, place the arugula, onion and fennel in a large bowl and add the dressing prepared in the previous step, stir and add salt if necessary.
Rules for serving and decoration
The dressed salad should be divided equally between four plates and a piece of fish should be placed on top of each serving. This dish should be served immediately.
Cooking flounder with vegetables in the oven - PP recipe
If you cook flounder on a bed of vegetables and season it with olive oil, you will get a surprisingly tasty and healthy dish. Any vegetables go well with fish. The dish is light, containing many vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, and fatty acids. For people who adhere to a healthy lifestyle, this is a great way to maintain proper nutrition, strengthen the immune system, and keep their body in excellent physical shape.
Let's take for the recipe:
- Flounder – 3 pieces (300-500 g each)
- Bell pepper – 200 g
- Onions – 100 g (small)
- Cauliflower – 200 g
- Broccoli – 200 g
- Green beans – 200 g
- Cherry tomatoes – 250 g
- Lemon – 0.5 pcs.
- Olive oil – 5-6 tbsp.
- Spices for fish – 2 tsp.
- A mixture of peppers, thyme, dry garlic 0.5 tsp each.
Preparation:
1. This recipe uses frozen vegetables. The flounder is cleaned and the dark skin is removed from the top of the carcass. On the underside, the skin is left unchanged. The carcasses are washed well.
2. Place the vegetables in a baking dish or baking sheet. Cut large onions in half. Mix well, distributing them evenly over the entire surface. Season with salt and add a mixture of peppers. Sprinkle with dry garlic and drizzle with olive oil.
3. Place whole cleaned flounder carcasses on the vegetables. Prepare fish spices and half a lemon. Spices will give the fish a pleasant taste and aroma.
Sprinkle the carcasses with them and add salt. Drizzle with remaining olive oil. Sprinkle with lemon juice.
5. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Place foil on top of the pan and seal the edges. Place in the oven for 30-40 minutes. After the allotted time, remove the foil and bake for another 7-10 minutes to form a golden brown crust.
Remove the aromatic dish from the oven. Let it brew a little and serve it hot right in this dish. The result was a very tasty, tender fish. The vegetables were well baked and aromatic. The dish is light, dietary, and absolutely everyone likes it. Bon appetit!
Baked flounder
- Flounder fillet - 0.5 kg;
- Onions - 2-3 pieces of medium size;
- Olive oil - 2 tbsp;
- Salt and spices - according to taste preferences;
- Lemon - ½ pc.
Baked flounder: step-by-step cooking recipe
- Filet the fish. To do this, clean the scales from the fish, cut off the head, fins and tail. Then cut the fish lengthwise along the belly, remove the backbone and bones. With a sharp movement of your fingers, remove the skin from the fish. Cut the fillet into portions.
- Marinate the fish. Rub with spices and salt, sprinkle with lemon juice and leave for 30 minutes at room temperature.
- Turn on the oven at 190 degrees.
- Meanwhile, cut the onion into half rings and place on a baking sheet lined with foil. Place flounder pieces on top, drizzle with olive oil and wrap in foil. In foil, the flounder meat will remain juicy and tasty.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes, then remove the top layer of foil and bake for another 10 minutes. The fish pieces will be covered with a delicious crust.
Serve hot with fresh vegetables or mashed potatoes.
Flounder fillet baked in the oven in pieces
Freshly frozen flounder fillets without hard skin are available for sale, which are very convenient to use. You can make a wonderful dish from it for lunch or dinner in the form of baked pieces with vegetables under a cheese crust and sour cream or mayonnaise. Nutritious, healthy and very tasty. If you bought this fillet, let's cook it!
Let's take for the recipe:
- Flounder fillet – 700 g
- Carrots – 4-5 pcs (400 g)
- Onions – 2 pcs (250 g)
- Hard cheese – 200 g
- Large tomato – 2 pcs (350 g)
- Mayonnaise – 100 g
- Sour cream – 100 g
- Salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
1. Rinse the flounder fillet pieces, dry on a paper towel and place in a bowl.
Peel the carrots and peel the onions. Place 100 grams of sour cream and mayonnaise in a bowl. Prepare the rest of the ingredients.
2. Cut the tomatoes into half slices. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Cut the onion into half rings and mix with grated carrots.
Prepare a convenient baking dish, grease the bottom with vegetable oil and place a vegetable pillow consisting of a mixture of carrots and onions on it. Add a little salt and pepper.
3. Place pieces of fish on the vegetables. Season them with salt and pepper as well. Place tomatoes on top of the flounder. Lightly salt.
Place the refractory pan in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes to bake. At this time, grate the cheese and mix it with sour cream and mayonnaise.
4. After 40 minutes, remove the pan from the oven. Place a layer of cheese with a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream on top of the baked tomatoes. Distribute it evenly over the entire surface.
5. Place back in the oven and bake until golden brown, about 7-10 minutes.
A wonderful dish is ready. Very aromatic, light, tasty. Prepare flounder fillet with vegetables under a cheese crust for your family. This dish will be greeted with a bang!
With vegetables
This is another option for preparing the main dish and side dish at the same time. This makes a delicious, light dish that can be served with a spicy sauce.
What ingredients will you need?
To cook flounder with vegetables, you need:
- 2 whole flounders (300-400 g each);
- 1 large tomato;
- half an onion, thinly sliced;
- olive oil;
- fine sea salt and pepper;
- 30 g butter;
- boiled rice;
- fresh greens.
For the sauce:
- 0.25 tbsp. red wine vinegar;
- 1 tsp. salt;
- 5 cloves garlic, chopped;
- quarter red onion, finely diced;
- 1.5 tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped;
- 0.5 tbsp. olive oil;
- 1 jalapeno, minced.
Step-by-step cooking process
To bake fish with tomatoes and onions, you will need to follow these steps:
- You need to preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Next, you need to clean the flounder and rinse in clean water, then wipe dry and place on a baking sheet lined with foil.
- Next, make 3 diagonal cuts into the skin of each flounder, being careful not to cut all the way through.
- The butter should be thinly sliced and spread over the surface of each flounder.
- Place tomatoes and onions cut into rings on top, drizzle everything with olive oil and season generously with pepper and sea salt.
- Bake the dish for 20 minutes. at 200°C until the fish is cooked through and the vegetables are very soft.
- At this time, you need to make the sauce by mixing all the ingredients for it together.
Rules for serving and decoration
The finished fish should be cut into pieces and placed on portioned plates along with onions and tomatoes. The dish should be served with boiled rice and herbs, sprinkled with spicy sauce.
A simple recipe for making flounder with potatoes
Very often, potatoes are a side dish for fish. We are all used to this and find this dish very tasty, satisfying and healthy. Today we will prepare flounder baked with potatoes in the oven. Look at the preparation of the dish and be sure to prepare this dish at home for your loved ones. They will be very pleased and will definitely ask for more. It's so delicious!!!
1. Prepare the flounder in the usual way. It is often sold without the head and cleaned of entrails. You just need to rinse it well. Cut off the fins and tail. Cut into portions.
2. First, marinate the fish for 10 minutes. Salt it. Add black pepper and lemon juice. Spices neutralize the possible unpleasant odor that often occurs when baking flounder.
3. While the fish is marinating, cut the onion into half rings and the potatoes into circles. If you have a figured knife, you can make beautiful cuts. But this is optional. The main thing is that it tastes good.
Place the onion on the surface of the mold greased with vegetable oil, then distribute the potatoes evenly.
4. Arrange the flounder pieces the way you like. Apply sour cream thickly on top. Then use a silicone brush to evenly cover the fish pieces. And pour a little water on the potatoes, about 100 ml.
5. Cover the pan with foil and place in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 25 minutes to bake. Then remove the foil and let the fish brown.
Treat your loved ones to delicious and simple food. There are no frills in this dish. As easy as pie. But very tasty, satisfying. Just beautiful.
Stuffed flounder
Flounder fillet stuffed with vegetables and crab meat is an unusual dish with an original taste. Adding breadcrumbs and cheese makes it even richer and richer.
What ingredients will you need?
Cooking stuffed flounder requires the following ingredients:
- 4 large flounder fillets, washed and dried;
- 1 large shallot;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 1 stalk of celery, chopped;
- 1 jalapeno, seeds removed, minced;
- 0.5 tbsp. diced sweet pepper;
- zest of one lemon;
- 240 g crab meat (imitation can be used);
- 1 tbsp. l. rapeseed or other odor-neutral oil;
- sea salt and pepper;
- 0.5 tbsp. breadcrumbs;
- 0.5 tbsp. grated parmesan cheese;
- non-stick oil spray.
Step-by-step cooking process
This unusual dish is prepared as follows:
- You should start by cleaning and rinsing the fish fillets.
- Next, you need to chop the crab meat and put it in a bowl, and then prepare all the other ingredients (pepper, shallots, celery and garlic should be very finely chopped and the same size).
- Then you need to heat the frying pan over low heat, and then place 1 tbsp in it. l. rapeseed oil, shallots, peppers and celery, stir and fry until they begin to soften.
- Next, you need to add garlic and lemon zest to the pan, pepper, salt and continue cooking for another 1-2 minutes. All ingredients should be soft, but not completely cooked.
- Remove the pan from the stove, cool the fried vegetables and mix with crab meat.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C, line a baking tray with several layers of foil, and spray with non-stick oil spray.
- Each flounder fillet must be cut in the middle, but not completely (the skin should remain intact).
- Then you should carefully run your finger along the cut, forming a cavity for placing the filling.
- Next, you need to pepper and salt the fillet inside and out, fill it with a mixture of crab meat and vegetables and place it on prepared foil on a baking sheet, put it in the oven and bake for 10 minutes.
- After this time, mix the breadcrumbs and Parmesan together, remove the fish from the oven and sprinkle with the above ingredients and spray with oil spray on top.
- Then the flounder must be put back in the oven for a few minutes. It is necessary to monitor the condition of the fillet: as soon as it acquires a golden brown hue, you should immediately remove it.
- After baking, you need to leave the fish to stand for 10 minutes and only then serve.
Rules for serving and decoration
Fish prepared in this way is so satisfying that no side dish is required. It should be served warm, garnished with lemon wedges, and accompanied by crusty bread.
Dietary video recipe for cooking flounder in the oven
Flounder is ideal for dietary nutrition. It is low-calorie, containing only 90 kcal per 100 grams of product. It contains a lot of iodine, which stimulates thyroid function, accelerates metabolism and fat burning.
It is not expensive, so it can be prepared very often. You can eat it plain or with a side dish of vegetables. Delicious - mmm... lick your fingers)))
Watch this short video on the easiest way to prepare this healthy fish.
Dear friends! Tell us in the comments, do you cook flounder at home? If so, what is your favorite recipe? Well, if you have previously ignored this fish, perhaps you liked my recipes and will try to cook it. As always, I wish you great culinary success. Be creative, cook deliciously for the benefit of the health of your family and friends.
Bye bye)))
How to choose flounder
It is better to give preference to chilled fish. When choosing, pay attention to the following properties:
- flounder has a faint odor that should not be interrupted by extraneous aromas;
- the fish's eyes should be clear and its gills should be pink;
- the skin should be rough, but not slippery; if you press it with your finger, it returns to its original appearance;
- Flounder fillet is rich in valuable minerals and vitamins; this fish also contains omega-3 acids, which are necessary to preserve the youth and beauty of the skin.