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Rolled Stuffed Fish Fillets With Avgolemono Sauce

Here's how you make Rolled Stuffed Fish Fillets With Avgolemono Sauce
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  • Servings: 4
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 25-35m
    • The following recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 3 cups water
  • 1 carrot, chopped
  • 1 cup yellow onions, chopped
  • 1 bay leaf
  • Peppercorns (a few)
  • 6 ounces shrimp (shelled and deveined, 12 shrimp)
  • 6 tablespoons butter (or margarine)
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1/4 cup yellow onion, minced
  • 1/4 cup green bell pepper, minced
  • 1/4 cup breadcrumbs (flavored)
  • 1 tablespoon minced parsley
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon pepper
  • 4 (1 1/2 to 2 pounds) sole fish fillets (or flounder or other similar white fish)
  • FOR AVGOLEMONO SAUCE
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 cup broth (reserved from cooking shrimp)
  • 6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Bring 3 cups of water to a boil in a large pot. Add carrots, onions, bay leaf, and peppercorns, and boil for 5 minutes. Reduce heat, and add shrimp. Cook for 3 minutes, or until they turn pink. Remove shrimp and reserve 1 cup of the broth for the Avgolemono Sauce.

  • Step 2: Preheat oven to 350-degrees Fahrenheit.

  • Step 3: Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet. Stir in garlic, onion, and green pepper and saute until onion is golden. Dice 8 shrimp and add to the skillet with the breadcrumbs, parsley, salt, and pepper. Stir and remove the skillet from heat.

  • Step 4: On boned side of each fillet spread 2 tablespoons of shrimp mixture. Roll fillets carefully and tuck any extra mixture into end of rolled fillets.

  • Step 5: Melt 4 tablespoons butter. Use 2 tablespoons to coat a 10 x 6 x 2-inch baking dish. Arrange fillets flat side down in the dish. Brush with remaining melted butter. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes.

  • FOR AVGOLEMONO SAUCE PREPARATION

  • Step 6: Beat the eggs until creamy. Add lemon juice and beat.

  • Step 7: Very slowly add warm broth reserved from cooked shrimp; beat until thick.

  • Step 8: When fish is baked, place on a platter and pour sauce over all.

  • Step 9: Garnish each fillet with a whole shrimp.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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