Stuffed Flounder & Baked Mackerel

Stuffed Flounder

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pounds flounder fillets
• 1 cup crabmeat - drained, flaked and cartilage removed
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped green bell pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon ground dry mustard
• 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• ground white pepper, to taste
• 3 crushed saltine crackers
• 1 egg white
• 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 1 egg yolk
• 5 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1 tablespoon dried parsley

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Rinse the fillets and pat dry with paper towels.
2. Combine crab meat, green pepper, mustard powder, Worcestershire sauce, salt, white pepper and the crushed saltines. Combine the egg white and 1 tablespoon mayonnaise. Stir this into the crab meat mixture.
3. Brush the flounder fillets with melted butter. Place in a lightly greased, shallow baking dish. Spoon the crab mixture over the fillets and drizzle with any remaining butter.
4. Bake the fillets at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
5. While the fish is baking, lightly beat the egg yolk in a small bowl. Stir in 5 tablespoons of mayonnaise. Remove fish from oven and spread this mixture over the stuffing; sprinkle with paprika and parsley.
6. Increase oven temperature to 450 degrees and bake until golden and bubbly, about 6 minutes. 

Baked Mackerel with Potatoes in Garlic Sauce

Basic ingredients 2 fresh mackerels (800g each) 1 lemon olive oil salt 1 tbsp cider vinegar

6 cloves of garlic 1 dried chilli chopped parsley 4 potatoes 1/2 onion

Steps: 1. Clean the mackerel place on a plate lightly sprinkle with salt and pour over a little olive oil 2. Make cuts in the side of the fish and place a slice of lemon in each 3. Bake in a hot oven (200 degrees) for approx 20 mins 4. To make the garlic sauce put a generous amount of olive oil in a frying pan (about 8 tbsp), the finely sliced garlic cloves and the whole dried chilli and fry over a medium to low heat remove the whole dried chilli once the sauce is ready and the garlic has turned golden 5. Peel and slice the potatoes, chop the onion and fry together in a separate frying pan in a little olive oil 6. Remove the fish from the oven open them up and remove the bones and place on a serving plate then sprinkle over the cider vinegar and pour the garlic sauce over the fish 7. Place the fried potato slices and onion around the edges of the fish and garnish with a little chopped parsley before serving