Flounder, dressed with a seafood stuffing mix of shrimp and crab.

Stuffed Flounder

If you've ever visited along a coastal area like the Gulf Coast where I live, you've probably seen lights bobbing around right along the shoreline at night, and may have wondered what exactly was going on. If you've ever actually lived along the coastline, you've probably done it at least once in your lifetime.

Floundering. And no, not the kind of floundering where you have struggles or indecision! I'm talking about the kind of floundering that requires, at the least, a bright lamp like a Coleman lantern, a fishing gig, a bucket or a stringer, and, well... a lot of patience.

Back in my younger days, we gals would usually tag along behind the guys, being anything but quiet, and thanks to the little minnows tickling at our ankles, irritating the fellas with our jumping around and giggling.  I can't even count the number of tourists who would approach us curious about what we were doing.

If we were lucky, we went home with a few flounder and a dozen soft shell crabs for the night, and more often than not, those flounder would end up dressed with a seafood stuffing and baked or broiled, just like this.  Those days were some fun times for sure, but these days The Cajun brings home the flounder, sans the giggling disturbance, and we still enjoy those flounder stuffed most of the time.

In fact, as he was eating this Stuffed Flounder, he was absorbed in his meal and not saying a word. Thinking something was wrong, I asked if it tasted okay. He said "Oh yeah, it's delicious! It's just that stuff like this is why I love living here," and that my friends, is the God's honest truth.

If the only seafood you've ever eaten is imported, and you've never had fresh seafood right off of the shorelines of this country, you haven't eaten seafood in my opinion. C'mon down sometime and try some. We'd love to have ya!

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Recipe: Stuffed Flounder

©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish

Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 30 min |

Yield: About 4 to 6 servings

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Ingredients

• 4 to 6 flounders (about 1 pound each), cleaned
• Seafood Stuffing Mix
• Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
• 1 to 2 lemons cut into wedges
• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) of butter, melted and divided

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Line a large baking pan with foil and spray it generously with non-stick cooking spray. Prepare stuffing mix; set aside.

Cut a slit lengthwise head to tail, down the dark side of the flounder and make pockets on both sides of the slit by using a sharp fillet knife to carefully cut along the back bones of the fish. Cut all the way to the upper and lower fins, without cutting through. Sprinkle the flounder with salt and pepper and fill the cavities of each flounder with the stuffing mix, placing each onto the prepared pan. Squeeze lemon juice over the top, and drizzle with about half of the melted butter.

Bake uncovered at 350 degrees F for about 30 minutes, or until fish flakes easily, basting with the remaining butter about halfway through. To brown more on top, place the tray under the broiler with the oven door ajar, very briefly, just long enough to brown the top of the stuffing. Serve with wedges of lemon on the side and a generous side salad.

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 A Henckels 7-inch Fillet knife makes an easy job of preparing a flounder for stuffing.

How to Prepare Flounder for Stuffing:

This video shows the process to completely debone a rather large flounder for stuffing, which is actually the most efficient way to go and leads to the least amount of waste of the meat. At home, generally we only do the second half of this process, making a slit in the flounder and then, using a fillet knife, cutting carefully along the bones and out toward the fins to open up the flounder. After cooking, we first eat the outer flesh and stuffing down to the bone, lifting out the bone in one piece, and then eating the lower portion of the flounder from under where the bones were.  Flounder are very bony fish, so be careful of all bones either way you go, but most especially of the tiny bones around the fins.

Posted by Mary on April 11, 2011

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