YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY

    Baked Flounder with Parsnips and Carrots Recipe

    By | Shine Food – Thu, Sep 27, 2012 4:32 PM EDT

    By Jesse Griffiths

    Reprinted with permission from Afield: A Chef's Guide To Preparing And Cooking Wild Game And Fish

    This dish plays off of the natural sweetness of flounder, carrots and parsnips. It is truly a dish of its ingredients, so choose the carrots and parsnips well, because they carry the recipe. Serve this dish as its own course, with no sides, possibly preceded by something with different flavors, like a game terrine or something acidic and pickled. Sole can be substituted for flounder, and the recipe can also work with halibut or haddock. If you choose to pair, drink a sweet white wine with this dish.

    Related: Friday Fish Recipes To Start Your Weekend RightWhat's in that healthy nest of roasted carrots and parsnips? Dinner.What's in that healthy nest of roasted carrots and parsnips? Dinner.

    Servings:     4

    Ingredients
    4 fillets flounder (or other whitefish)
    kosher salt
    4 medium carrots
    4 medium parsnips, peeled
    2 tablespoons olive oil
    6 tablespoons unsalted butter
    2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves, plus 4 sprigs fresh thyme
    zest of one small lemon

    Directions:
    1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
    2. Season the fillets with salt and set aside.
    3. Grate the carrots and parsnips into a bowl, then toss well with olive oil and a pinch of salt.
    4. In another small bowl, mix together the butter, thyme leaves and lemon zest and set aside.
    5. In a gratin dish or on a baking sheet, lay the grated parsnips and carrots out in four piles the size of the fillets. Lay the fillets on top and spread the seasoned butter on each fillet. Top each fillet with a thyme sprig.
    6. Bake the flounder for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the fish easily flakes and is cooked through. Serve immediately.

    Level of Difficulty: Easy
    Prep Time: 25 minutes
    Cooking Time: 25 minutes

    More fish recipes from Food Republic:
    The Best Grilled Fish Tacos. Period.
    Grilled Salmon In Corn Husks Recipe
    Fluke Crudo With Meyer Lemon Recipe
    Fried Whitefish With Aioli Recipe

    SUPPER CLUB PICK

    • Childhood Favorites from the Shine Supper Club
      View Photos
      Childhood Favorites from the Shine Supper Club
      Childhood Favorites from the Shine Supper Club

      My after-school snack was a sacred ritual. I sat on the carpet in my parents' bedroom at a low table, the television turned to "I Dream of Jeannie," and ate a peanut butter and honey sandwich cut into neat squares. I wasn't fussy about crusts. I just loved the sticky pairing of creamy peanut butter with syrupy golden sweetness drizzled from a honey bear in diagonals across the soft white bread. Nothing else--save for maybe apples and peanut butter in a pinch--could have made for as sweet an