Fish is one of the most wholesome dishes. This product can be cooked, fried, stewed. Especially tasty fish is obtained if baked. We offer a recipe for making flounder in the oven. Oven baking can be done in various ways: in a sleeve, in foil under a vegetable "coat" or in a special marinade sauce.
Flounder in the oven: recipe with sour cream
In order to bake tasty flounder with sour cream, you will need:
- flounder carcass weighing about 1.5 kg;
- 200 g sour cream;
- a few tablespoons of butter;
- some flour (about 50 g);
- pepper, salt, seasonings to taste.
How to cook flounder in the oven? Start by preparing the fish. Gut and clean it. Divide into portions. Rub them with salt, pepper a little. If you want, you can add seasoning. Take a refractory mold or stewpan. Lubricate with oil. Lay out the pieces of fish. Sprinkle a little oil and lemon on top. Cover the form with parchment, foil or a lid. Flounder in the oven should remain for about an hour. During this time, it should be periodically watered with the resulting juice, which will be collected at the bottom of the tank. Now prepare the fish sauce. Fry flour using butter. She should not be reddened. Pour in the sour cream gradually. Do not stop stirring the sauce. Put the right amount of salt, pepper. Put the mass in a water bath. The sauce should remain warm. As soon as the fish is baked, you need to remove the skin from it (you can not do this if you like fried skin). Pour the sauce into the fish slices. Flounder in the oven should stand for about 10 minutes.
Tip
If you suddenly bought a Black Sea flounder, which has a characteristic taste and smell of iodine, then before cooking, it is recommended to soak it in milk for half an hour. Other flounders, Mediterranean and Atlantic, have a more pleasant taste. There is no need to soak them.
Baked flounder with tomatoes
To bake a flounder with tomatoes, you will need:
- one flounder carcass weighing about 1 kg;
- some ripe tomatoes;
- lemon;
- pepper, salt;
- greens.
Cooking technology
Clean the carcass of the fish, you can cut it into portions, you can leave the whole. Rub the flounder with salt, pepper, and spices. Squeeze out the lemon juice and fill it with fish. Refrigerate for a couple of hours. Prepare the tomatoes - cut them into cubes. Chop greens. Take a non-stick container, lightly grease. Put the fish in it. Put tomatoes on top. Flounder in the oven should be baked for half an hour. Then sprinkle with herbs and serve.
Flounder in the oven in a foil with tomatoes, sour cream and cheese
This recipe will require the following ingredients:
- flounder weighing about 1 kg;
- a slice (per 100-150 g) of cheese;
- 2 tomatoes;
- a few spoons of sour cream;
- lemon (zest and juice);
- dill, salt, pepper.
Cooking technology
Prepare the fish. Rub it with salt, sprinkle with pepper, pour lemon juice on it. Mix chopped dill with sour cream and zest. Lay out each carcass (or a separate portioned piece, if the fish is large) on a sheet of foil. Smear the sauce, put a layer of tomatoes on top. Sprinkle with cheese and wrap the ends of the foil. Bake the flounder for half an hour.