Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, stuffed flounder fillets. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook stuffed flounder fillets using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Flounder Fillets:
- Take 4 large flounder fillets rinse and pat dry
- Make ready 1 large shallot minced
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves minced
- Get 1 stalk celery minced
- Prepare 1 jalapeno seeded and minced
- Take 3-4 red, yellow, or orange mini sweet peppers seeded and minced (depends on how big they are)
- Make ready *The small peppers are sweeter and the flavor is milder which pairs well with the delicate fish and sweet crab meat. I wouldn't recommend green bell peppers
- Take Zest of one lemon
- Take Slice the same lemon into wedges and reserve for serving
- Make ready 8 oz container of crab meat
- Make ready 1 Tbsp canola oil or any neutral flavored oil
- Make ready to taste Salt and Pepper
- Prepare 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
- Take 1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese
- Make ready non stick vegetable spray
Place the stuffing mix into a bowl, and stir the onion and celery into it along with the butter in the pan. Turn a simple flounder fillet into something special with a crab cake-like topping. A mixture of crabmeat, crushed crackers, mayonnaise, and seasonings like Old Bay and Worcestershire make for a flavorful stuffing, the perfect complement to flounder's mild taste. Place two large fillets of flounder in your baking dish, and place half of your crab imperial mixture on top of each fillet.
Step by Step to make Stuffed Flounder Fillets:
- Start with cleaning and filleting your fish. We had 2 big flounder and filleted both. We only used the 4 biggest and meatiest fillets for this recipe, which is the top side of the flounder. If you get yours from the market make sure to ask for the top fillets only. Don't worry… we didn't waste the bottom fillets. I fried them up the next night, but I get to that dish another day. Rinse the fillets and pat dry. Make sure there are no bones left behind.
- Open the crab meat and pour into a bowl. Gently pick through it for any pieces of shell. Set aside.
- Have all your other ingredients prepped (the peppers, shallot, celery, and garlic should all be minced very small and all the same size.) Preheat a skillet over medium heat. Once heated add one tablespoon canola oil, shallots, peppers, and celery. Stir until they just start to soften and add the garlic and lemon zest. Add a pinch of salt and pepper and continue to cook for just another minute or two. You want everything soft but not fully cooked through. It will finish in the oven with the fish.
- Remove from heat and let cool. Then mix in with the crab meat.
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with foil for easy clean up. Spray foil with non stick vegetable spray.
- Prepare the fillets by making a slit down the middle of the flesh. Make sure you don't cut through the skin. Sorry I don't have a picture of me actually cutting the fillets, So use the red line as a guide from the picture below. Once you have your slit down the middle gently work your fingers between the skin and flesh going outwards. This will create a pocket for your stuffing.
- Lightly salt and pepper the fillets inside and out. Stuff your fillets with the crab and veggies. Place on your foiled baking sheet. Place in oven for 10 minutes.
- Mix the breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese together and set aside. When the 10 minutes is up take fish out of oven and top with breadcrumb mixture. Lightly spray with vegetable spray to moisten breadcrumbs. You could use olive oil or butter, but I was taking the lighter option.
- Place back in oven and turn your broiler on. Keep your eye on it. It can burn very quickly. Once it turns golden brown it's done. Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes.
- Serve it up with your favorite sides and a lemon wedge. We did roasted asparagus and a few seared scallops.
- Enjoy!
Take the remaining two fillets and split them in half, placing one-half on each side of the stuffing, leaving the top visible. Combine remaining ingredients; pour over fish. Sprinkle flounder with salt and pepper. Using a fillet knife, carefully open the flounder by cutting along the left and right sides of the seam down the middle of the fish to make pockets. Stuff the flounder with the Crab Cake Mix, and press the sides down to cover the filling.
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