Sole Meunière

Preparation info
  • Four

    servings.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Craig Claiborne’s Kitchen Primer

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1969

  • About

One of the most delicious ways to cook fish is in the French style called meunière, pronounced “mern-yehre.” The word meunière means miller’s wife and the dish is so called because the fish is dipped in flour before it is cooked. Almost any fish fillets or small whole fish can be cooked meunière-style, but the fish most commonly cooked that way are sole and trout.

This recipe is for sole meunière. To cook other fish in this manner, simply substitute other