Baked Stuffed Lemon Sole
4
tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 small onion chopped
1 small zucchini unpeeled and chopped
1/2 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
1/2 pound sea scallops chopped
1/2 pound small ("salad size") peeled and deveined coarsely chop) shrimp (if
using larger shrimp
1 1/2 teaspoons Old Bay
1 3/4 cups crushed Ritz (about 1 1/4 sleeves of crackers)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
8 thin lemon sole or other whitefish fillets such as haddock (about 2 pounds
total)
2 tablespoons butter melted
Lemon wedges
In a large skillet, heat the butter and oil. Add the onion, zucchini, and
mushrooms. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring often, until the vegetables are
softened and lightly browned, about 6 minutes. Add the scallops, shrimp and
seafood seasoning and cook, stirring, until the seafood is just cooked through,
3 to 4 minutes. Remove from the heat.
Add the cracker crumbs and season to taste with salt and pepper. (The stuffing
can be made up to 1 day ahead and refrigerated. Leftover stuffing can be frozen.
Bring to room temperature or take the chill off in the microwave before stuffing
the fish.)
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Brush a large glass baking dish generously
with melted butter.
Season the fish fillets on both sides with salt and pepper. Arrange 4 of the
fillets in the baking dish. Cover with stuffing, pressing it in to make an even
layer, and top with the remaining fillets. If some of the seafood stuffing
spills out into the dish, that's fine. Brush the fish with melted butter.
Bake in the preheated oven until the fish is opaque in its thickest part and the
stuffing is heated through, 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the thickness of the
fish. Garnish with lemon wedges for squeezing over the fish.
Brooke Dojny, The New England Clam Shack Cookbook