Spring seafood recipes

When the sun starts to shine, it's time to bring some lightness to your plate. What better to pair with alfresco dining and chilled wine than seafood?

When the days grow longer and warmer, all we want to do is eat lighter, fresher dishes, preferably outdoors. Celebrate the best the ocean has to offer this spring with our collection of tantalising seafood dishes.

Tossed through a salad, served sashimi style or laden upon crispy olive bread, kingfish, ocean trout, clams and more are the perfect accompaniment to bright spring days. Blow away your guests with the likes of mussel pancakes, pickled octopus or a showstopping fillet of cured ocean trout, accompanied by crepes or brioche. Dive in to our favourite seafood dishes for spring.

Fish burger with minty pea mayo and charred lettuce

Fish burger with minty pea mayo and charred lettuce

Trout ceviche and crisp fish skins

Trout ceviche and crisp fish skins

Cured leatherjacket with horseradish vinaigrette

Cured leatherjacket with horseradish vinaigrette

Octopus, frisée and fennel salad with lardons and lentil dressing

Octopus, frisée and fennel salad with lardons and lentil dressing

Green bomb snapper poke

Green bomb snapper poke

Preserved tuna and tomato open-faced panini

Preserved tuna and tomato open-faced panini

King prawns with green salsa

King prawns with green salsa

Onion bialys with sugar-cured trout and green peppercorn cream

Onion bialys with sugar-cured trout and green peppercorn cream

Crab salad with herb mayonnaise and garlic chapons

Crab salad with herb mayonnaise and garlic chapons

Fragrant seafood and burghul parcels

Fragrant seafood and burghul parcels

Tuna K-poke

Tuna K-poke

Busiate with crab, ginger and pangrattato

Busiate with crab, ginger and pangrattato

Clams in garlic brown butter

Clams in garlic brown butter

Chive gougéres with cured trout and crème fraîche

Chive gougéres with cured trout and crème fraîche

Charred broccolini with kingfish, miso and sesame

Charred broccolini with kingfish, miso and sesame

Pickled prawns and fennel with rye crackers

Pickled prawns and fennel with rye crackers

Potato and mussel pancakes with sesame dipping sauce

Potato and mussel pancakes with sesame dipping sauce

Ocean trout in crêpes and brioche

Ocean trout in crêpes and brioche

Pickled octopus

Pickled octopus

Crab and avocado tortillas

Crab and avocado tortillas

Ratatouille with ruby snapper

Ratatouille with ruby snapper

Grilled scallops in the shell

Grilled scallops in the shell

Seafood salad with herbed dressing

Seafood salad with herbed dressing

Pippies in Xo

XO pipis with Chinese broccoli

Grilled fish in banana leaves

Grilled fish in banana leaves with cucumber pickle (ikan panggang dengan acar ketimun)

Lobster BLT

Lobster BLT on toasted rye

Crisp prawn dumplings

Crisp prawn dumplings with green tea salt

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