Broiled stuffed flounder

1 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
1mediumOnion, minced
2Stalks celery, chopped fine
1cupShrimp, cleaned and peeled
1smallCan mushrooms
1Bay leaf
½cupCream salt and pepper
2Flounders, dressed juice of 1/2 lemon
8tablespoonsButter
½poundsCrabmeat
1teaspoonWorcestershire sauce bread crumbs
ounceWhite wine
6tablespoonsCooking oil

Directions

Saute onion in butter until soft; add celery and saute 3 minutes longer. Add shrimp and mushrooms with their juice and saute until shrimp are pink. Add crabmeat, bay leaf, Worcestershire, cream and enough bread crumbs to hold dressing together. Salt and pepper to taste. Add 3 oz wine and stuff fish. Close slits and lace up. Heat 2 tbs butter with 2 tbs cooking oil and put in broiler pan. Place fish in pan. Broil flounder slowly under low flame, basting with butter-oil mixture. As fish begins to brown add ½ oz of white wine to pan to increase basting liquid. When top of fish is golden brown the fish is done. Spoon sauce from pan over fish and sprinkle with lemon juice.