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Ingredients
- 2 (10-ounce) flounder fillets
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
- Uncle Bubba's Crab Cake Mix, recipe follows
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- Cooking spray
- 1 (1-inch) slice Crab Butter, recipe follows
- Fresh parsley, for garnish
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Sprinkle flounder with salt and pepper. Using a fillet knife, carefully open the flounder by cutting along the left and right sides of the seam down the middle of the fish to make pockets. Lay the cut sides back.
Stuff the flounder with the Crab Cake Mix, and press the sides down to cover the filling. Sprinkle with paprika.
Coat a glass baking dish with cooking spray. Place the fish in the dish and bake for 20 minutes. Without removing the dish from the oven, turn the oven to broil and broil for 5 additional minutes. When the fish is done, remove it from the oven. Slice a medallion of crab butter and place it on top of the grilled fish. Sprinkle fresh parsley on top for added color.
Crab Cake Mix:
- Recipe courtesy Uncle Bubba
- 1 1/2 tablespoons butter
- 3 green onions, green tops, thinly sliced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley leaves
- 1 small green pepper, finely chopped
- 1 egg
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 1/2 tablespoons spicy mustard
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 10 saltine crackers, crumbled medium to fine
- 1/2 pound lump crabmeat, picked clean of shells
- 1/2 pound claw crabmeat, picked clean of shells
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
In a medium skillet, melt the butter and saute the onions, garlic, parsley and peppers until soft. Let cool.
In a mixing bowl, combine the egg, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, heavy cream, mustard, lemon juice and mayonnaise together. Gently mix in the saltine crackers and crabmeat. Add salt and pepper, if needed. Set aside to stuff in flounder.
Yield: 24 ounces
Crab Butter:
- 2 ounces claw crabmeat, picked clean of shells
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon seafood base
- 1 green onion, thinly sliced
Fold the crab, butter, seafood base, and onions together in a medium bowl and mix until smooth. Remove from the bowl and shape into a log on a piece of parchment paper. Roll up and place in the freezer. Reserve for flounder.
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By HOTCAK3
raleigh,nc
on April 23, 2013
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I didn't follow the recipe to the T. I didn't make the Crab Butter it seemed to difficult and not needed. I used Lays potato chips instead of saltine crackers. I used 1/3 less fat Philadelphia cream cheese instead of heavy cream. Flounder from local fish market and crab meat from Wal-Mart. I'm so in love with this recipe I plan on making it for friends.
By pittsburghpal
Pittsburgh, PA
on October 10, 2012
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I made this last evening to rave reviews and not a morsel left on the plate. I added some crushed red pepper seeds to the stuffing because we like a little heat. Can't wait to make this again.
By jennij3333
Evans, GA
on March 24, 2012
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After reading all these wonderful reviews, I was expecting a lot more from this recipe. I prepared it as written, but I found the stuffing to be TOO crabby, and it just didn't have enough stuff holding it together. Also, you could get away with making half the Crab Cake recipe, because making it as the recipe states, you end up with a lot extra (and this was using 4 big pieces of flounder. There just wasn't enough flavor going on in the crab stuffing. I'm giving this 3 stars because my husband said it was good. I just didn't enjoy this one at all. I ended up tossing mine in the trash.
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