Cooking For Engineers

[Dilbert]

Stuffed Flounder

Came across a recipe for shrimp stuffed flounder. Long, involved, about 15 ingredients.
Bottom line: flounder is a mild fish, shrimp is a mild crustacean, in the end it was not a recipe I would recommend or repeat.

But the concept is there. Our local fishmonger sometimes has really good size whole flounder. Which he kindly cleaned, skinned and filleted.
To do this roll-up version, you need a big flounder. Those cute little cutlets they have in the supermarket are not up to the task.
For sense of scale, the plate diameter is 11"/28cm.


For a follow-up I invented my own stuffing - ultra simple:
crispy bacon, sauted onion (long saute, very soft), chopped fresh baby spinach.
A splash of balsamic vinegar when the spinach goes in to wilt. Allow to cool.


A trick to stuffing like this is to chop everything to small pieces - big chunks do not assist in getting a neat roll-up. Toothpicks helpful during bake.


Ready for the oven - loosely cover with foil first 25 minutes.
Bake time 30 minutes starting at 425'F/220'C reduced to 375'F/190'C at 15 minutes.


Done deal - pan fired okra (from fozen) + red potato version of hasselbacks

[Dilbert]

did a repeat on this.

here's the fish

[iamkibria]

Thanks for your recipes.