Oven Baked Flounder Dinner

When you make this Oven Baked Flounder you will look like a chef because no one could make this dish better than you! It’s easy! And you can tweek the ingredients all kinds of different ways and you will still have it turn out great. Growing up in New Jersey there was always fresh flounder available. My Mom rode the bus home from work and on Friday she would stop at the fish store. And about half the time the freshest available was flounder. This is basically how she made it and supper was on the table in well under a half-hour.

How To make Your Oven Baked Flounder

Turn the oven on at 400°F. Rinse off the fillets and pat them dry with a paper towel. Spray a cookie sheet with oil and spread the fillets out on it. You could line the cookie sheet with aluminum foil before you spray it for an easier cleanup. In a bowl 1/4 cup olive oil or melt 1/2 stick of butter and add 1 tablespoon garlic powder, salt, pepper, juice from 1/2 of a lemon and dried parsley flakes. Here’s where you get to do it your own way. With the basic oil or butter then you can add lots of different things that you like. Paprika, Parmesan cheese, honey, red pepper flakes, balsamic vinegar and on and on.

Brush the mixture over the flounder saving some for the veggies. 

For the veggies

Line a small baking pan with foil and put in some potatoes cut into about 3/4 inch cubes and some frozen broccoli florets or carrots. Brush them with the rest of the butter (or oil) mixture and put everything in the oven at the same time.

Seven minutes on bake then three minutes on broil, but, all ovens are different so watch them. When the flounder starts to sizzle around the edges switch from bake to broil and then as soon as they start to get the slightest brown on top take them out. The veggies will keep up with the fish so it all should be ready to go.

You are the chef! A nice dry white wine would go along good with your Oven Baked Flounder. Gammy likes Pinot Grigio so thats what we have (surprised?) And since the oven is on, some of poppop’s easy homemade bread wouldn’t slow things down.

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Oven Baked Flounder Dinner-Quick and Easy

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 2

An easy and fast weeknight Baked Flounder recipe.

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Ingredients

• 4 small Flounder fillets or 2 large
• 1/4 cup olive oil or 1/2 stick butter melted
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 fresh lemon 1/2 in the brushing mix and 1/2 for serving
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder or chopped fresh
• 2 cups broccoli florets
• 4 small red potatoes cut into appx. 3/4 inch pieces

Instructions

• Turn the oven on at 400°F. Rinse off the fillets and pat them dry with a paper towel. Spray a cookie sheet with oil and spread the fillets out on it. You could line the cookie sheet with aluminum foil before you spray it for an easier cleanup. In a bowl 1/4 cup olive oil or melt 1/2 stick of butter and add 1 tablespoon garlic powder or chopped garlic, salt, pepper, juice from 1/2 of a lemon and dried parsley flakes. Here's where you get to do it your own way. With the basic oil or butter then you can add lots of different things to your liking. Paprika, Parmesan cheese, honey, red pepper flakes, balsamic vinegar and on and on. Brush the mixture over the flounder saving some for the veggies.
• Line a small baking pan with foil and put in some potatoes cut into about 3/4 inch cubes and some frozen broccoli florets or carrots. Brush them with the rest of the butter (or oil) mixture and put everything in the oven at the same time.
• Seven minutes on bake then three minutes on broil, but, all ovens are different so watch them. When the flounder starts to sizzle around the edges switch from bake to broil and then as soon as they start to get the slightest brown on top take them out. The veggies will keep up with the fish so it all should be ready to go.
• You are the chef! A nice dry white wine would go along good with your Oven Baked Flounder. Gammy likes Pinot Grigio so thats what we have (surprised?) And since the oven is on, some of poppop's easy homemade bread wouldn't slow things down.
  

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