Unfortunately, in our area, flounder is most often available only frozen. However, no less excellent dishes are obtained from it, which in taste are not inferior to fresh fish.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Flounder is a very healthy and tasty fish, especially if baked in the oven. You can cook it, of course, in a variety of ways: fry, stew, boil, bake on charcoal … All dishes are tasty and healthy, but the most useful and affordable way of cooking for everyone is baking in the oven, with which, I am sure, all fans of this seafood will agree … Therefore, we will prepare the flounder in exactly the same way.
You can bake flounder in a culinary sleeve or food foil, alone or with various vegetables. In this review, we will cook it in splendid isolation, simply putting it on a baking sheet and smearing it with mayonnaise, and if you wish, you can use any sauce. It will turn out to be very tasty, aromatic and appetizing. Delicate white fish meat will delight any strictly gourmet. And one of the main advantages of flounder is the relatively low content of bones, which allows it to be cut into fillets if desired. Equally important is the flattened shape of the carcass, which will also allow you to experiment with it, but we'll talk about this later.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 56 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Flounder - 4 pcs.
- Seasoning for fish - 1 tsp
- Mayonnaise to taste
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Vegetable oil - for greasing the baking sheet
Step-by-step cooking of baked flounder in the oven with mayonnaise:
1. Defrost the flounder first. Do this naturally without hot water or microwave ovens. Then wash it under running water and dry it with a paper towel. You can cut off the fins, tail and head if you like. But I don't, because households love to "crunch". Grease a baking sheet with a thin layer of vegetable oil and lay out the fish.
Note: Flounder has a specific smell that not everyone likes. It publishes a dark part of the skin on one side of the carcass, because on the other hand, she has fair skin. If this smell does not bother you, then the skin can not be removed. If you feel an iodine aroma and a slight bitterness, then it is better to remove the dark part of the skin. How to properly clean the flounder, you can find on the site a detailed article with accompanying photos.
2. Sprinkle the carcasses with salt, ground pepper, fish seasoning and mayonnaise. Adjust the amount of mayonnaise yourself. If you are not afraid to eat fatty foods, then you can grease the fish abundantly on all sides. If you want a more dietary dish, you can exclude mayonnaise altogether from the recipe. Also, lemon juice will help to reveal the taste characteristics of the dish. Therefore, before baking, you can sprinkle the fish with it. In addition, lemon juice will remove the unpleasant aroma that frightens off many.
3. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and send the fish to bake for half an hour. It cooks very quickly, so be careful not to dry it out.
4. Serve the finished carcass to the table immediately after cooking, since it is tasty, juicy and fragrant when freshly prepared. For more flounder flavor, you can sprinkle the finished carcass with a small amount of lemon zest before serving.
See also a video recipe on how to cook flounder in the oven.
