Sole Florentine Au Gratin Recipes

SOLE FLORENTINE AUX CHAMPIGNONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven 375°F.
• Cook washed spinach with water still clinging over medium-high heat until wilted; drain. When cool enough to handle, gently squeeze out remaining moisture. Finely chop and place in an oiled casserole.
• Top with the sole filet and sprinkle with Old Bay seasoning.
• In skillet heat oil; add onions,salt, garlic and mushrooms; sauté for 4 minutes; whisk in flour and slowly add chicken broth and cream stirring constantly for 3-4 minutes until thickened; stir in Parmesan cheese.
• Spoon over sole.
• Cover and bake for 20 minutes; uncover and bake another 5 minutes.

SOLE GRATIN WITH TOMATOES, CAPERS AND OLIVES

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
• Lightly brush a 1 1/2 quart oval gratin dish (or something similar in size) with olive oil.
• Lay the fish out on your work surface skin side up. Drizzle with a bit of olive oil and season with a little bit of salt and pepper, to taste. Fold the fillets in half (thick end over thin) and lay them right down the center of the prepared gratin dish, slightly overlapping.
• Crush the drained tomatoes through your fingers into a bowl. Stir in 3 T. of the olive oil, the onion, olives, capers and pepper to taste. Stir in the parsley and spoon some of the mixture right over the fish, letting some of the sauce to fall to the sides.
• Toss the remaining 2 T. olive oil with the bread crumbs until they are evenly moist and then scatter them over the fish.
• Bake until the fish is cooked through and the crumbs get crispy and brown - about 25 minutes.

SOLE FLORENTINE

Steps:

• Melt 4 tbls butter in a large frying pan, over medium low heat. Add the juice of one lemon.
• Put flour on a paper plate.
• In a separate low dish, mix the water with the beaten eggs.
• Dust the filets with flour, then dip both sides in the beaten egg.
• Fry gently on each side until fish laked easily.
• Remove fish to a heated plate.
• Add the rest of the butter and lemon juice to the frying pan.
• Add the spinach, turning gently until just "wilted".
• Serve spinach under each serving of fish.