French Fridays with Dorie – Almond Flounder Meuniere
May 4, 2012 in fish
So the reason Frozen Friday happened a day early this week is because I wanted to participate in French Fridays with Dorie. I actually want to participate every week but then… sardines and lamb and other things I don’t like/can’t afford make their way onto the schedule.
This week’s I was especially excited about because it’s fish coated with ground almonds – and I love anything coated in almonds. Seriously, you could cover cardboard in ground almonds and I’d tell you it was the greatest thing you’d ever cooked.
This was ridiculously simple. You just brush one side of the fish with egg yolk, coat it in an almond meal and flour mixture and then fry it in brown butter. That’s it. It took less than 10 minutes and I felt like I was having such a fancy lunch!
If you can’t tell, I loved this and plan on making it again with the rest of the fish I bought. I squeezed a ton of lemon juice over the top and it was absolute perfection!
(I used tilapia because there is no water in Colorado and therefore no fish besides tilapia. Unless, of course, you want to pay $20/pound. And I don’t. I’d rather buy nailpolish.)
The members of French Fridays with Dorie don’t share the recipes because want to encourage you to check out Around My French Table but a quick google search may just bring up the recipe for you. Hint hint, wink wink.
What a beautiful plate of food! Tilapia is a good choice and I bet was delicious with the almonds. Glad to have you back with us!
Looks delicious. I thought about Tilapia, too, but went with flounder anyway.
Funny you love almond coated stuff… I’ve never had anything nut coated I always thought especially on fish that it would be to over powering… it wasn’t loved it.
sounds wonderful! I keep forgetting to participate! I guess I have too much going on on Fridays, too. I need to bookmark the page in the book and make this SOON!
Tilapia is always a good choice in my opinion. Yum! Looks like a beautiful lunch!
I was surprised by how fast this one was, myself. I also used tilapia. Flounder was nowhere to be found.
Flounder makes me think of the little mermaid. Can we use swordfish instead? lol jK I love how simple this is!
This was really cute – made me laugh about the fish in Colorado and buying nailpolish instead. I feel that way about lamb and sardines, I’d rather buy just about anything but either of those items. Love the photos, it does look like quite a lovely lunch and great treat!
I live on the east coast, but tilapia is still often the most affordable option. Miraculously, flounder was on sale this week. Your fancy lunch looks delicious, and it’s nice to have you join us this week.
We have lots of tilapia here ..fresh and frozen but since there are flounders around, I bought them to make this dish…super yummy ! and yours looks good. I saw cranberries in your rice ..mmm yummy!
this is easily a dish that I could prepare for so many people so quickly and be so pleasing to most! Can’t wait to make this one again!
Yeah, I think I would rather have a really cool nailpolish color than 20$ flounder too :-)
Lovely job!
I agree that this was really easy and yummy! And much cheaper than last week’s lamb recipe.
I love tilapia!!! I couldn’t find flounder and I’m surrounded by water in Seattle. My halibut was still over $20.00 a pound…next time tilapia for sure. YUM!
Looks delicious! I think this would work with many types of fish. Nothing wrong with saving your $ for nail polish!
How lovely! I can’t believe I’ve never made it, but it’s one of those things I’ve ordered in restaurants and adored.
Your lovely plate of tilapia/rice is beautiful and looks as tasty as you said it was. Yes, the only fish you could coax out of those Colorado rivers are trout and I don’t think they would “marry” well with this coating. I couldn’t find flounder. Didn’t want to pay the sole tariff. Settled on Skai.