Flounder fish has juicy, tender and aromatic meat, even true gourmets can appreciate it. In this regard, there are many recipes for cooking this delicious fish. The most common recipe is fried flounder, and flounder in batter is also popular. However, it is very high-calorie, yes, as doctors say, not very useful. How to kill two birds with one stone - treat yourself to a delicious fish and at the same time make the dish not only tasty, but also healthy.
If you really like fish, but don’t want to eat fried fish, then flounder baked in the oven with lemon is what you need. This is a very tasty and healthy dish.
You will need: about 1 kg of flounder, 1 lemon, 70 gr. butter, a few stalks of parsley, salt.
Before starting to clean the flounder, we recommend scalding it with boiling water.
We begin to clean the flounder: from the side of the eyes, we must cut off the head obliquely, open the abdomen and remove the insides.
Then it is necessary to scrape off the scales from the lower, light side of the fish.
On the dark side of the flounder, the skin is usually peeled off. However, if a flounder is baked in the oven, you can not remove it, but make small cuts - it will simply be removed after the fish is baked.
We scrape the blood from the vertebrae, cut off the fins, and wash the flounder’s carcass with cold water. Then we wipe it dry with a paper towel.
The oven must be heated to 180 ° C.
Flounder needs to be salted and placed in a baking dish. Then on top of it you need to add a few cubes of butter.
Set the dish with flounder in a preheated oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.
Lemon needs to be washed and cut into slices. You also need to wash and chop the parsley.
Then we take the fish out of the oven, sprinkle it with lemon juice, add sliced lemon slices, finely chopped parsley and a few slices of butter to it on top. Again we put the flounder in the oven for 5 minutes. When the time is up, we take the dish out of the oven.
Oven baked flounder is ready. We cut the finished flounder fillet and put it on plates and serve with boiled potatoes, sliced from various fresh vegetables or salad. Enjoy your meal! Trout fillet is cooked in the same way. Baked in the oven, this fish will also delight you and your guests.
It is also easy to prepare and flounder baked in the oven, according to the following recipe.
You will need: flounder gutted and headless 900-1000g, half a lemon, 4 large or 8 small potatoes, 2 tablespoons of white wine, better than dry, a mixture of herbs suitable for fish, coarse sea salt and black pepper or a mixture of different peppers to taste, which must be ground before use.
How to cook: potatoes need to be peeled, washed well, dried a little and folded into a suitable baking dish. Then it should be sprinkled with pepper and salt, pour a little water and put in the oven for 15 minutes for baking at a temperature of 200 degrees. Pull out the baked potatoes and put them in a dish.
Flounder needs to be washed well, dried with a paper towel. Take two strips of foil, fold them cross-on-cross, pour a sufficient pinch of salt in the middle . Flounder should be put on salt , sprinkled with herbs, pepper and salt, overlaid with lemon, which must be sliced very thinly and sprinkled with wine.
All this must be carefully wrapped in foil and placed in a well-heated oven. Bake the flounder for 15 minutes at a temperature of about 180 degrees, then remove from the oven and carefully deploy. Next, you need to bend the foil. Put potatoes in a flounder under the barrel so that it is slightly saturated with fish juice and put again in the oven for 10 minutes.
Then you need to get the form and quickly serve the dish on the table. Flounder baked in the oven according to this recipe - this dish is very tasty, fragrant and not very high-calorie.