Instead, buy flounder from March to November. To cook whole flounders, trim away the fins, head and blood-line, then grill or bake whole with citrus, herbs and butter as you would cook turbot.
Winter flounder—a.k.a. lemon sole when it’s big, and blackback flounder when it’s not—takes its name from the fact that it swims inshore to warmer waters during the winter months.
This is a simple and delicious way to serve fresh flounder - a good source of vitamin D to help counteract winter's lack of sunshine. For more recipes with good sources of vitamin D, check out ...
Flounder is a great fish — an abundant, sustainable species, they require no preparation (no scaling or gutting) and one fish is the perfect portion-size per person.
While shad roe generally steals all of the glory, fresh flounder roe has some merits too. It is comparatively mild in flavor, with finer, more densely packed, practically microscopic eggs.