Flounder fish is often underestimated for its taste, especially when it is just fried. Cooking in an oven will allow delicate dietary meat of sea fish to fully reveal its taste. Moreover, you can bake flounder in the oven in whole or in slices of fillet, in foil and sleeve.
Pick your recipe
The secrets of cooking flounder in the oven
Before baking flounder, it is important to properly carve it to get rid of the not too pleasant smell of sea fish.
Flounder goes well with onions, it is this vegetable that helps eliminate the very unpleasant marine aroma, because of which fish are often neglected. Also, when baking, it is recommended to add potatoes and other vegetables: carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes.
Preliminarily, to eliminate a specific smell, it is advisable to soak the flounder carcasses in milk. The standard set of seasoning for fish helps to cope with it. Any citrus fruit, especially lemon, also helps to remove the iodine flavor and improves the taste of fish meat.
When cutting flounder, it is not necessary to remove the head if you are going to cook a dish in the oven. You can bake the whole carcass, or you can divide it into portions or cut it into fillets.
Whole baked flounder
Small instances of fish are better to bake whole, flounder meat is juicy. This recipe is suitable for baking both in foil and in the sleeve.
You will need:
- flounder carcass - 1.6 kg;
- vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- butter - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- lemon - 1 pc.;
- a bunch of parsley, dill;
- pepper and salt to taste.
To cook a flounder tasty, it is important to follow the entire process step by step. First, take the butter out of the refrigerator and leave it at room temperature so that it softens a little.
Cut the carcass, free it from the insides, head and fins. Rinse thoroughly. Put the fish on the board with the light side up, make several transverse cuts on it, based on the size of the carcass, usually 2-3 is enough.
Mix pepper with salt and grate flounder with this mixture, especially trying to get the seasoning into the cuts. Transfer it to a cup, sprinkle with juice from half a lemon and set aside to stand for 15 minutes. Cut the remaining half of the lemon into thin slices.
Turn on the oven to heat and set the temperature to 220 ° C. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and put the prepared flounder on it whole. Place the pan in the oven and bake the fish for 25 minutes first.
After that, take out the baking sheet, insert the lemon circles into the slots on the carcass. Re-bake the fish for another 25 minutes. While the flounder is cooking, chop the greens and add the butter to it. Rub the whole mass well.
Remove the finished flounder from the oven, remove the lemon wedges. Smear the surface of the carcass with an oil-dill mixture and place the fish again for baking in the oven for 2-3 minutes.
Oven baked flounder in the sleeve
This is not only a tasty, but also a healthy diet dish, which is also quite easy to prepare.
You will need:
- 2 carcasses of flounder;
- 1/2 lemon
- 30 ml of soy sauce;
- 1 bay leaf;
- 2 cloves of garlic.
Cooking process
Make several cuts on the flounder carcasses with a knife. Pour soy sauce on the skins, trying to get it inside the cuts. Squeeze the juice from half a lemon and sprinkle fish on it.
Pass the garlic cloves through the press and coat the carcass obtained with the gruel. Leave them to marinate for 15 minutes.
After that, put the flounder in the sleeve, then you can put finely chopped lemon peel. In the sleeve, make 2-3 small holes for air to escape and lay the sleeve on a baking sheet.
Prepare a flounder in a sleeve in a preheated oven at a temperature of 200 ° C, the baking time of the dish is 15-20 minutes.
How to cook flounder in onion foil
Flounder for this simple recipe is very juicy.
You will need:
- 500 grams of flounder fillet
- 1 lemon
- 1 onion;
- salt, olive oil, any greens, ready-made spices for fish.
Rinse the flounder fillet in running water, dry and cut into portions. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice out of it. In a separate small bowl, mix salt, pepper, ready seasoning for fish.
Rub the slices of fillet with salt, a mixture of spices, pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice. Leave the flounder to marinate for 30 minutes. At this time, chop the onion rings and scald it with boiling water to bring down the main bitterness. Hold for a minute in water and wring out.
At the bottom of the baking sheet, line the sheets of foil, coat them with oil. Make the first layer a pillow of onion rings. Spoon the pickled fish on top of the onion. Mix the remaining lemon juice with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and brush the skin of fish with this mixture.
Wrap the edges of the foil so that there are no holes for the exit of steam. Bake flounder for 20 minutes in a preheated oven at a temperature of 200-220 ° C. After that, reduce the temperature in the oven to 180 ° C and bake for another 10 minutes.
After the time has passed, remove the form, open the foil and put the flounder in the oven for another 5 minutes, so that a delicious crust appears. After this, the dish will be ready, you can serve it to the table.
Flounder in sour cream with potatoes, baked in foil
Flounder according to this recipe can be baked whole or made in portions.
You will need:
- 1 kg fillet or 1 carcass of flounder;
- 300 ml sour cream;
- 1 kg of potatoes;
- 1 large onion;
- 1 pod of red hot pepper;
- vegetable oil, seasoning for fish, salt to taste.
Cooking process step by step
Cut the flounder carcass and cut into portions if desired or leave it whole. Rinse and peel the potatoes, cut them into slices or slices. Free the pod of hot pepper from the seeds and cut into rings, add it to the potatoes and mix.
Cut the onion in half rings and scald with boiling water. Put sour cream in a deep bowl, add onion rings there, mix. At the bottom of the baking dish, lay the foil, grease it with oil.
Spread the carcass or pieces of flounder on the foil, sprinkle with spices and salt. Cover the fish with a mixture of sour cream and onions. Lay potato slices on top and next and wrap foil.
Bake the flounder for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C in a preheated oven. Despite the fact that in this recipe there is no cheese, no one bothers to add it if desired. To do this, remove the baking sheet from the oven 5-10 minutes before the end of baking, unfold the foil and sprinkle the carcass of the fish with grated cheese. Set again for 5-7 minutes until it melts. But if you bake flounder in the sleeve, you have to do without cheese.
Oven baked flounder with vegetables
This is a full meal for dinner. Flounder with vegetables is cooked quickly and looks appetizing.
You will need:
- 1 kg carcass of flounder;
- 200 grams of carrot, onion, sweet pepper.
- 1 cream cheese
- 300 grams of tomatoes;
- 1 lemon
- vegetable oil, seasoning for fish, salt, parsley to taste.
Peel the flounder carcass and cut in portions, grate the meat with seasonings and salt. Squeeze the juice from the lemon, sprinkle them with pieces of fish for pickling. Prepare the vegetables - grate the carrots on a coarse grater, chop the onion in half rings, chop the peeled bell pepper with a stripper. Slice the tomatoes. Finely chop the greens.
Put the vegetables and herbs in a cup and mix. Dice the cheese or grate it, only before that it needs to be frozen in the freezer. Add cheese to a cup of vegetables.
Lay baking paper on a baking sheet, oil it and put pieces of flounder. Cover the carcass with the collected vegetable mixture. Put a baking sheet in the oven preheated to 200 ° C, cook the flounder with vegetables for 40 minutes.
If the top of the fish fries too much, cover it with foil. Serve the prepared flounder with vegetables on the hot table, accompanied by fresh herbs.
Oven baked flounder: a simple recipe in milk
This recipe refers to the traditional northern way of cooking fish. Roasting flounder in milk makes the dish dietary, delicious, soft and juicy.
You will need:
- 1 whole flounder;
- milk;
- set of spices: curry, allspice, peas, juniper berries and salt to taste.
Such a spice as curry did not appear in the recipe from the North at all, but this seasoning perfectly removes the fish smell from the carcass, so you should use it. Although, if desired, you can take basil or other seasonings similar in effect.
Prepare the flounder for baking, grate curry and salt. Put the carcass on a baking sheet or pan. If caviar is found in fish during cleaning, put it next to it and bake.
Pour the flounder with milk so that it slightly covers the carcass. Add juniper berries and allspice peas. These spices also help eliminate the unpleasant smell of fish.
Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 190 ° C. Flounder will be baked for 30-40 minutes.
Wine baked flounder
You will need:
- 1 flounder;
- 1/2 lemon
- 1 tbsp. a spoon of paprika;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
- 40-50 ml of dry white wine;
- 1 onion;
- salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Prepare the flounder and rub it with pepper and salt. Put the carcass on a baking sheet. On top of the fish, put thinly sliced circles of lemon and onion, as if wrapping it.
Melt the butter and add paprika and wine into it, mix and pour the flounder with the resulting mixture. Place the pan in the oven preheated to 200 ° C for 30-40 minutes.
Flounder in the oven in a crust of spices
The fish cooked according to this recipe is very spicy.
You will need:
- 1 flounder;
- 2 teaspoons of cumin, coriander seeds, paprika, fennel;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil;
- zest of one lemon;
- a small bunch of fresh cilantro.
Grind and mix all spices and seasonings together. Sprinkle the prepared carcass of flounder with salt, then grease with olive oil and gently rub with a mixture of spices. Put the fish on a baking sheet and put it in the oven for 30-40 minutes at 190 ° C.