Baked Flounder with Shrimp-and-Crab Stuffing

Ingredients
1-1/2 cups soft bread crumbs
1/4 cup butter or margarine
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1/2 cup chopped green onions
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
2 cloves garlic, minced
8 ounces fresh or frozen shrimp, cooked, shelled, and coarsely
chopped
6 to 8 ounces fresh crab meat or frozen crab meat, thawed
2 tablespoons snipped parsley
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 1- to 1-1/4 pound dressed flounder (with head and tail)
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
Lime slices (optional)
Green onion (optional)

Directions
1. In a 10-inch skillet cook bread crumbs in the butter or margarine
over medium heat until golden brown and crisp. Remove crumbs to mixing
bowl.

2. In the same skillet melt butter or margarine. Add green onions,
celery, green pepper, and garlic. Cook over medium heat until
vegetables
are tender. Add vegetables to bread crumbs.

3. Stir chopped shrimp, crab meat, parsley, salt, red pepper, and
black
pepper into bread mixture.

4. Rinse fish and pat dry. To cut a pocket, place flounder on a board,
dark side up. Make a slit in the center of fish, cutting lengthwise
along backbone. Cut a pocket on both sides of first cut.

5. Stuff fish loosely with bread mixture. Place fish in a greased
15-1/2
x 10-1/2 x 2-inch baking dish. Brush fish with butter. Bake in a 400
degree F oven about 20 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a
fork.
Transfer fish to a serving platter. Garnish the cooked fish with lime
slices and green onion, if desired. Makes 4 servings.

Tip: To serve stuffed flounder, cut crosswise across the top of the
fish
and stuffing to the backbone. Then, holding the knife horizontally,
cut
around outside edge of fish. With a spatula, lift off the meat and
stuffing. To remove backbone, slide a knife under backbone, starting
at
tail, and lift if away from fish. Use a fork to help lift bone. Cut
fish
into serving-size pieces and serve with stuffing.



Nutritional facts per serving
calories: 470, total fat: 28g, saturated fat: 16g, cholesterol: 285mg,
sodium: 889mg, carbohydrate: 12g, fiber: 1g, protein: 43g, vitamin C:
43%, calcium: 12%, iron: 18%
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