Cooking Seafood

How To Fry Flounder

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Recipe for Crispy Deep Fried Flounder

The flounder is a flatfish with both eyes on the same side of their head. The fish is thin and flaky with a sweet taste. Due to their thinness, fish fillets made from flounder are stuffed, rolled, and baked. Here we teach you a simple recipe for deep fried flounder where the coating is made from cornmeal and biscuit mix

Note that you can use “sole” caught off the US Coast as a substitute for flounder. Without further ado, here’s how you fry flounder.

What You Need:

  • Flounder fillets without the skin (8 fillets make 4 to 6 servings)
  • Whole milk/buttermilk (2 cups)
  • Biscuit baking mix/pancake mix (1 cup)
  • Cornmeal (1 cup)
  • Oil (3 cups)
  • Lemon wedges
  • Salt to taste

How To Prepare:

  1. Heat the oven to 2000F. This will keep the fish warm in case you are frying more batches
  2. Take a shallow baking dish and place fillets inside. Cover the fillets with milk. Set aside
  3. Take a mixing bowl to combine cornmeal and biscuit mix. Stir well to blend
  4. Take a sauté pan or a deep heavy skillet, and pour up to 2 inches of oil in it. Heat over 3650F.
  5. Drain the fillets, and coat each piece with the cornmeal biscuit mix. Coat thoroughly on both sides
  6. Fry the fillets, turning once after every 2 minutes. Fry until brown and crisp on both sides. This will take about 5 minutes.

That’s about it! Drain the fillets on paper towels to soak the oil, and then sprinkle salt to taste. Just remember to fry a few fillets at a time to keep the oil warm. Garnish with lemon wedges for best taste.

Fatima M.
Freelance Blogger


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