Best Baked Flounder Oreganata With Tomato Capers Fennel Sauce Recipes

BAKED FLOUNDER FILET OREGANATA - LIGHTENED!

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190C).
• In a 9 x 6 baking dish, or a 9 x 13 baking dish, spray generously with cooking spray.
• Lay the flounder fillets into the dish, side by side.
• Scatter all the dry seasonings, bread crumbs, grated cheese, and minced garlic on top of each flounder. Add some sea salt and black pepper on top.
• Drizzle each flounder with extra virgin olive oil.
• Gently pour the white wine and 1/2 of a lemon juiced around the fish, not directly on top.
• Save and reserve the other half of lemon juice to add in just before serving.
• Bake uncovered, for 20 to 22 minutes.
• Remove from oven. Pour the other half of lemon juice on top of the filets. Allow the juices to absorb into the fish, and cool down for 2 minutes. Then serve.
• Serves 2 to 4

MEDITERRANEAN FLOUNDER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
• Coat a 10-inch ovenproof nonstick skillet with a low-calorie cooking spray.
• Add olive oil and heat over medium-high heat.
• Add onion, garlic, and celery and cook about 3 minutes. Add tomato, capers, parsley, salt, black pepper, hot sauce, wine, water, and oregano. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover tightly, and simmer 5-6 minutes, or until vegetables are tender.
• Add fish and spoon sauce over it.
• Bake uncovered for 20-25 minutes, or until fish is opaque in the center.
• Remove fish to a serving platter. Arrange pasta around fish. Sprinkle pasta with Parmesan cheese and a bit of black pepper, if desired.

MEDITERRANEAN BAKED FLOUNDER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
• Blanch tomatoes. To do this bring a pot or deep sauce pan of water to a boil. Places tomatoes in the boiling water for about 30 seconds. Remove and immediately put them in a bowl of ice water. Let them chill, you will start to see the skins pull away from the meat. After a minute or two take tomatoes out of water and gently remove skin by rolling your thumbs over the tomatoes. Skins should come off easily.
• Chop Tomatoes into desired size and set aside.
• Put 1 tablespoon of oil in a large saucepan. Place minced garlic and copped onion in the pan. Cook over med. heat until onions become translucent (about 5 min). Add in tomatoes, wine, olives, capers, and 5 or 6 fresh basil leaves (copped). Let stew covered for 5 minutes. Then uncover and add Parmesan cheese, salt, pepper and Italian seasoning. Reduce heat and cook uncovered let cook until mixture becomes a thick sauce (about 15 minutes).
• In a glass baking dish place 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Gently lay cleaned fish into dish. Cut lemon in half and squeeze fresh lemon on top of fish. Put a dash of salt and pepper onto each fillet. Put in over and bake for 12 minutes or until fish is easily flaked with a fork.
• Remove fish from oven. Plate and place tomato sauce over fish. Garish with a fresh basil leave, and a slice of lemon. Add a bit of fresh grated parmesan on top if desired.

FLOUNDER MILANESE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F and place a sheet pan in the oven.
• Dry the fish on both sides with paper towels. Combine the flour, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper on a dinner plate. In a low, shallow bowl, whisk the eggs with 1 tablespoon water. Put the bread crumbs on another plate. Dredge the fish on both sides in the seasoned flour and dust off the excess. Dip both sides into the egg mixture and, finally, dredge both sides in the bread crumbs.
• Heat 1 tablespoon butter and 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large (12-inch) saute pan and cook 2 fillets at a time over medium to medium-high heat for 2 to 3 minutes on each side, until cooked through. Transfer the fish in one layer to the sheet pan in the oven. Add more butter and oil and cook the rest of the fillets, transferring them to the sheet pan as they're done. Toss the arugula with enough Lemon Vinaigrette to moisten. Place one fillet on each plate and pile the arugula salad on top. Heat the capers in the saute pan for 30 seconds and sprinkle over the fish and salad. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan, a squeeze of lemon juice, and the fleur de sel. Serve hot.
• In a small bowl or measuring cup, whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper.

BAKED FLOUNDER WITH TOMATO CAPER SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Make sauce:
• Heat oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sauté onion and fennel, stirring, until golden, about 8 minutes. Add garlic and sauté, stirring, 30 seconds. Add tomatoes and wine and simmer briskly until liquid is reduced by one third, about 5 minutes. Stir in capers, salt, and pepper, then transfer to a 2-quart gratin dish or other wide shallow baking dish.
• Prepare flounder:
• Stir together bread crumbs, butter, salt, and pepper with a fork until combined. Season flounder with salt and pepper, then roll each fillet, skinned side up, into a cylinder and arrange, seam side down, on top of sauce. Gently press bread crumbs onto flounder.
• Drizzle wine carefully around fish into sauce (not over fish) and bake in middle of oven until fish is just cooked through, 20 to 25 minutes.