Great Frying Flounders!
 

I've never done this before.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I want it to come out very crunchy-- but not burned.

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The best thing to do if you don't want it burned is to take it out before it gets burned. If you fail to do this it will get burned :smack

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Ariel will be heartbroken.

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Isn't it like Halibut?

I prefer it grilled or broiled but you can bake it. If you bake it then it won't be crunchy...

Never had pan fried though

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ANY fish tastes better fried in beer!

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Ask Alton Brown.

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http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/f...ipe/index.html

Ingredients

4 skinless flounder-fillets
Salt and pepper, to taste
Flour, for dredging fish
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 tablespoons butter, divided
1 lemon, juiced
1 small bottle capers

Directions

Wash fillets in cold water and pat dry. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Dredge fillets in flour. Place oil and 2 tablespoons butter in flat, heavy-bottomed skillet and heat on medium-high until butter melts. Keeping heat at medium-high, cook fish on 1 side about 3 minutes (more or less, depending on size of fillets), until deep brown and crispy. Turn fish and cook on second side, about 3 minutes. Turn fish only once.

Remove fish to serving platter. Turn off heat. Into hot skillet, whisk in remaining 1 tablespoon butter. Add lemon juice. Pour in capers, liquid and all. Whisk. Pour thin sauce over fish fillets. serve at once.

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you mean a beer batter?

Anyone have a recipe? I notice Krusteaz has a batter in the baking section at Vons, anyone try it?

We have Seafood restaurants here, like fish and chips places but better, that will batter whatever kind of fish you want and fry it. One though uses a dry mix though and I don't care for it

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For a crispy dry coating add corn meal. When I was a kid I used to make it with flour, corn meal, garlic salt and pepper. Works ok for chicken too but use less corn meal

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I don't think the sell it anymore.

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Already have!

And he just confirmed the obvious.

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If you want it crispy, you will probably want to use breadcrumbs, like the ones from Progresso. I never use Ketchup on my fish - yuck!

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Fried Flounder

Ingredients

Fresh Flounder Filets
Flour (1/4-1/2 cup)
1 egg, lightly whisked
splash of milk
breadcrumbs (1/2 cup)
Salt & Pepper
Olive Oil/Butter
lemon, for serving

Directions

In a small bowl, combine egg and milk.
In separate bowls/plates, place flour (season with salt and pepper) and breadcrumbs.
Wash flounder filets and pat dry with a paper towel.
Dredge the flounder in the flour, then the egg mixture, and then the breadcrumbs (make sure to shake off all of the excess flour/breadcrumbs/egg)
Heat a few tablespoons of olive or butter (or a mix of both) over medium-high heat.
When oil/butter is hot, add the flounder to the pan and cook a few minutes on each side.
Serve with lemon slices and ketchup!

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There's some stuff called Fish Fry. I use it on catfish. Works great.

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Ok, I can't think of the brand. I get it at Kroger.

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My fish came out terrible.
I wasted four Flounder filets.
Thanks for all the advice.

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Sorry, which recipe did you use?

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Actually, I changed my mind at the last minute and instead of frying it, I tried to bake it.

Wrong decision.

I didn't even let my dog eat it.

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:(

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How did you do them?......oh okay, I see you
baked them. What kind of seasoning did you
put on them?

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I go to Sams and buy their already breaded flounder in the frozen section. Then I bake it in the oven till done. It comes out crispy. But you can fry this just the same.

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:nod

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:killinme


Sorry Jermyn. I couldn't resist.

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Oh, I have to have ketchup AND lots of tabasco sauce!
Occassionally, I like the tartar sauce. :nod

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A dog eats it's own vomit and you wouldn't let him eat the flounder? If you wasted four filets, that is why.

I don't see how baking them would have ruined them. You either didn't season them right or baked them too long (hardened). You can put lemon juice on them and they would have been great. It's hard to mess up a flounder filet. That is some good fish.

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Salt, pepper, butter or olive oil and lemon. That's all I need. :thumbsup

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1) Defrosted four fish filets labeled as Flounder, but I guess you really don't know what you're getting when you buy fish these days.

2) Coated the filets in a pre-seasoned corn meal flour made by Zatarains.

3) Dipped the flour-coated filets in egg whites, thoroughly beaten with a tsp of lemon juice added-- and this I believe was the undoing of my meal. The recipe for crispy baked flounder called for grated lemon zest, but all I had was lemon juice.

4) Dipped the twice-dipped filets into a third mixture of crushed fried french onions, tortilla chips, crushed garlic, dried onion bits and parsely.

5) Place the tripple-dipped seafood products onto a oil-slicked pan and bake them for 15 minutes at 400 degrees.

6) After 15 minutes, I had four breaded globs of seafood product.

7) I baked the fish for an hour at 450 - 465 degrees, trying to get the seafood product to firm and flake like fish should. The coating was slightly burned-- but only slightly because I kept checking on them.

8) The seafood product never really firmed and flaked like fish is supposed to. I ate some of it, threw the rest away and ate some oodles of noodles with cheese and fresh crushed garlic added.

9) Washed it down with strawberry lemonade.

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No need for apologies.

I laughed too after I re-read what I posted.

However, I wasn't laughing as all this was unfolding.

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Yep, you're right. The lemon juice was where it went wrong.

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Until tonight, I didn't think it was even possible to melt fish.

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Fish are more delicate than you realize.

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I need to get married.

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:foottap

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Why?

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There are a thousand reasons.
Reason number 1,001 is so that I can have some home-cooked fried fish and black eyed peas.

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Yes, why? :foottap

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Next time pan fry with a low flame. Simple stuff.

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Together? :smack

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What?
:heeheehee

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hahaha

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Yes!