Sauteed Flounder with Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce

This buttery Sauteed Flounder with Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce is full of lemon flavor. The flounder is breaded and topped with a superb garlic lemon butter sauce with capers. It’s a delicious weeknight dinner ready in 15 min with just 6 ingredients! It’s a perfect main dish for your Italian Christmas Eve dinner!

This is a good restaurant quality dinner you can make at home in just fifteen minutes but, for a fraction of what you’d pay in a good restaurant! 

I like to make different fish recipes to add some variety to our usual chicken and beef dinners. This recipe is great when you want something different but, not complicated because you just don’t want to fuss with dinner. 

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*The full printable recipe is in the recipe card at the bottom of this post. 

Ingredients

• fresh flounder fillets
• extra virgin olive oil
• salted butter
• lemon (juice and zest)
• Italian seasoned bread crumbs
• garlic cloves (use four if they’re large cloves)
•  nonpareil capers with juice jars
• salt and black pepper

Sauteed Flounder with Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce

Flounder Fillets

Flounder is a mild white fish that tastes wonderful flavored with lemon. You’ll need four fresh flounder fillets to make this flounder recipe. They should weigh in total about one to one and a half pounds.

If you have frozen flounder, thaw it in the refrigerator first.

Bread Crumbs

Use 1/2 cup of seasoned Italian bread crumbs for this recipe. Seasoned bread crumbs add a little more flavor than the unseasoned. The bread crumbs add some texture to this dish and the little crunchy edges will be tasty. 

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

I almost always use extra virgin olive oil in my cooking. It’s pertinent in adding flavor to my Italian recipes. You good quality extra virgin oil because the flavor makes all of the difference. It should be dark green in color.

Lemon Zest

Lemon zest adds more lemon flavor to this fish recipe. It’s a great flavor combo to the capers.

Fresh Lemon Juice

You’ll need to squeeze about two tablespoons of juice from the lemon. Use a little less if you only want a hint of lemon flavor.

Mince Garlic

The minced garlic cooking in the olive oil will become fragrant and add a lot of the flavor to this dish. If you don’t have fresh garlic cloves, you can sprinkle some garlic powder to the flounder filets at the same time you add the salt and pepper. 

Capers

Use two 3 oz jar of capers in their brine. They give this recipe a bold, zesty, tartness that’s reminiscent of green olives. 

Cooking Time

The cooking time is only about 8 minutes (or fewer) in total for the flounder. The other two minutes is for the minced garlic. 

Total Time

The total cooking time for this whole recipe is only 10 minutes! The fish doesn’t take long at all to cook, which is why it’s a great weeknight dinner you can make fast. 

What to Serve with Fried Flounder

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This dinner is a quick and simple, restaurant quality weeknight dinner. You’re going to love the lemon flavor in this tasty fish dinner. Make this fried flounder dish for The Feast of Seven Fishes Italian Christmas Eve Recipes, for Lent or any time you want a delicious and easy fish recipe.

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This recipe was updated on May 6, 2024.