5 Ways to Make Flounder

Flaky, delicately sweet flounder is a quick and easy fish to cook for weeknight dinners. Its mild flavor and fantastic texture make it the perfect base for a wide range of vibrant dishes. Here, five foolproof flounder recipes.

1. Stuffed Flounder with Frizzled Mint and Ginger 

There are herbs everywhere in this dish. A mix of garlic, serrano chile, cilantro, and chopped mint is stuffed into each fillet and blended into an incredible yogurt sauce.

2. Pan-Fried Flounder with Lemon Butter Sauce 

Jonathan Waxman's recipe for crisp flounder is simple but spectacular. The keys, he says, are to get the fish from a reliable source and concentrate while you cook it. "Get the flounder too hot and it turns to mush, too cool and it goes rubbery."

3. Flounder with Herbed Couscous 

A puree of parsley and scallions mixed with lemon juice and oil both flavors the couscous and acts as a sauce for the fish.

4. Baked Flounder with Parmesan Crumbs 

In this super-simple recipe, flounder fillets are sprinkled with cheesy bread crumbs and baked until golden.

5. Mushroom-Crusted Flounder with Creamed Spinach 

This fast recipe is total comfort food.