Flounder can be caught fishing in the Black Sea. The local species has a characteristic pronounced smell and taste of iodine, therefore, before thermal treatment, the fish should be kept for half an hour in milk. But the flounder caught in the Atlantic or in the Mediterranean Sea does not need such preparatory procedures. It has a fresh aroma of freshly chopped cucumber. The easiest way to cook this flat fish with two eyes on one side is baking. In proud loneliness or with vegetables, in sauce or cheese "hat", in a sleeve or in foil - the recipe for flounder in the oven will not be difficult and as a result will give you a tasty and satisfying dish.
First you need to clean and gut the carcass, remove the fins and head, rinse thoroughly under running water. Then the refractory stewpan is greased with oil and
flounder fish rubbed with salt is placed in it with the white side up
. The recipe prescribes to dip the dish with vegetable oil and cover with a lid before immersion in the oven. The oven should already be preheated to medium temperature. During baking, you occasionally need to water the fish with the resulting juice. In parallel, make the sauce. In a frying pan on a spoonful of oil, brown half a spoonful of flour. Add a glass of sour cream a little to prevent lumps from forming. Salt, pepper and season the sauce in a water bath. We remove the skin from the baked flounder, pour the sauce and put it in the oven for another ten minutes.
Another simple recipe for flounder is to fry the fish in mustard. Cut the carcass into portions, grease them on both sides with this Dijon product and leave for 20 minutes. Take care of the vegetables. Grind two carrots on a coarse grater, cut two onions in half rings, and three cloves of garlic in small pieces. Fry vegetables in vegetable oil with the addition of a spoonful of sugar, a minute before turning off the heat, pour two tablespoons of 9% vinegar into the pan. Further, the flounder recipe prescribes to brew a fish in flour and fry it until it is rosy. You can not salt it - after all, mustard has already done its job. Then lay the flounder pieces on a greased baking sheet. Place vegetables on top of the fish and bake in the oven for another 5-10 minutes.
And here is another Mediterranean recipe for flounder - for it you need to stock up on orange juice. Roll portions of the fish in flour and fry in olive oil (allowed and sunflower oil). After crusting, fill the flounder with juice and simmer for several minutes. Add a pinch of needles of rosemary, black pepper. As a side dish for such fish, boiled rice with saffron is ideally suited.
For those who are on a diet, we offer Munich recipe for flounder. Boiled
fish into pieces
, boil in salted water until tender. In a pan, melt a spoonful of oil, fry a spoonful of flour in it until pink. Then pour a little broth in which the fish was brewed, and add two glasses of beer. Boil the sauce, and at the end we season it with the juice of half a lemon, sugar and salt. The recommended side dish is boiled potatoes. We spread the flounder to it, pour everything with beer sauce.