Ingredient: Lemon Sole
Category: Fish
Season: All
The lemon sole, Microstomus kitt, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae.
It is native to shallow seas around Northern Europe , where it lives on stony bottoms down to about 200 m.
It grows up to 65 cm in length and about 3 kg in weight.
It is a popular food fish .
Lemon sole is not as flavoursome as Dover sole. when it is skinned and filleted, lends itself to dressing up with sauces and other flavours.
Cooking:
Sold whole or as fillets.
Fillets can be rolled and stuffed or made into goujons.
Best cooked whole, grilled, fried or poached.
Several other species of flatfish are known as lemon sole:
English sole, Parophrys vetulus.
Southern lemon sole, Pelotretis flavilatus.
Winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus.
South African lemon sole, Solea fulvomarginata.
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