List of seafood dishes
Seafood dishes are food dishes which use seafood as primary ingredients, and are ready to be served or eaten with any needed preparation or cooking completed. Many fish or seafood dishes have a specific name, while others are simply described or named for particular places. Bisques are prepared with a variety of seafoods.
Seafood dishes
Mixed seafood dishes
- Baik kut kyee kaik – Burmese fried noodle dish with squid and prawn
- Bánh canh – Vietnamese soup with thick rice noodles including crab, prawn, fish cake, or shrimp
- Bisque – Cream-based soup of French origin, made from crustaceans
- Bún mắm – Vietnamese vermicelli soup, with shrimp, shrimp paste, or fish paste
- Bún riêu – Traditional Vietnamese soup, with fish, crab, or snail
- Ceviche – Latin American dish of marinated raw seafood
- Chowder – Category of soups
- Cioppino – Fish stew originating in San Francisco, with Dungeness crab, clam, mussels, squid, scallops, shrimp, and/or fish
- Crawfish pie – Louisiana dish
- Curanto – typical food in Chilean gastronomy based on baking seafood underground
- Espetada – Portuguese skewer dish that often uses squid or fish, especially monkfish
- Fideuà – Seafood dish from Valencia, Spain, similar to paella but with noodles instead of rice
- Halabos – Filipino process of cooking shrimp, crab, lobster, or fish
- Hoe – Korean raw food dishes consisting of a wide variety of seafoods
- Hoedeopbap – Korean dish
- Kaeng som – Thai, Lao, and Malaysian curry dish based on fish, especially snakehead, as well as using shrimp or fish eggs
- Kedgeree – Indian-British fish and rice-based dish traditionally using haddock
- Maeuntang – Korean spicy fish soup
- Mie cakalang – Indonesian dish from North Sulawesi consisting of skipjack tuna in noodle soup
- Moules-frites – Belgian dish of mussels and fries
- Namasu – Japanese dish of thinly sliced uncooked vegetables and seafood
- New England clam bake – Communal dining tradition from New England, method of cooking shellfish
- Paella – Rice dish from the Valencian Community, Spain, with mussels, shrimp, and fish
- Paelya – Philippine rice dish, similar to paella but differs with usage of glutinous rice
- Paila marina – Chilean seafood soup or stew, notable for usage of unique varieties of seafood such as giant barnacles, piura tunicates, and Chilean mussels
- Piaparan – Filipino dish using chicken or seafood
- Plateau de fruits de mer – French seafood dish
- Seafood basket
- Seafood birdsnest – Chinese cuisine dish
- Seafood boil – Type of social event involving the consumption of seafood
- Seafood cocktail – Shellfish appetizer
- Seafood pizza – Variety of pizza with seafood toppings
- Stroganina – Siberian dish of sliced raw fish
- Sundubu jjigae – Korean traditional soft tofu stew
- Surf and turf – U.S. dish of seafood and meat
- Sushi – Traditional Japanese dish of vinegared rice and raw seafood
Clam dishes
- Clams casino – a clam "on the halfshell" dish with breadcrumbs and bacon. It originated in Rhode Island in the United States and is often served as an appetizer in New England and is served in variations nationally.
- Clam cake – also known as clam fritters
- Clam dip – a dipping sauce and condiment
- Clam liquor – a liquid extracted during cooking and opening of clams. Undiluted it is called clam broth.
- Clam pie – Savory meat pie prepared using clams
- * White clam pie – a pizza variety
- Clam soup – a soup prepared using clams as a main ingredient
- * Clam chowder – a well-known chowder soup
- * Jaecheop-guk – a clear Korean soup made with small freshwater clamsFabes con almejas – a clam and bean stew that originated in the principality of Asturias in the 19th century as peasant fare. It is a lighter variation of Asturian fabada whose primary ingredients are sausage, beans and pork.
- Fried clams – New England seafood dish
- New England clam bake – also simply called a "clam bake"
- Clams oreganata – an Italian American seafood dish served most commonly as an appetizer
- Clam sauce – used as a topping for pasta
- Spaghetti alle vongole – Italian and Italian-American dish of spaghetti with clams
- Steamed clams – Seafood dish consisting of clams
- Stuffed clam – American seafood dish
Crab dishes
- Bisque (food) – a smooth, creamy, highly seasoned soup of French origin, classically based on a strained broth of crustaceans. It can be made from lobster, crab, shrimp or crayfish.
- Black pepper crab – one of the two most popular ways that crab is served in Malaysia and Singapore. It is made with hard-shell crabs, and fried with black pepper. Unlike the other popular chilli crab dish, it is less heavy due to the absence of a sauce.
- Bún riêu – Bún riêu cua is served with tomato broth and topped with crab or shrimp paste.
- Chilli crab – a seafood dish popular in Malaysia and Singapore. Mud crabs are commonly used and are stir-fried in a semi-thick, sweet and savoury tomato and chilli based sauce.
- Corn crab soup – a dish found in Chinese cuisine, Chinese cuisine, and Canadian Chinese cuisine, it is actually cream of corn soup with egg white and crab meat or imitation crab meat added.
- Crab cake – a variety of fishcake which is popular in the United States composed of crab meat and various other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, milk, mayonnaise, eggs, yellow onions, and seasonings. Especially popular in the Mid-Atlantic state of Maryland.
- Crab dip – typically prepared with cream cheese and lump crab meat.
- Crab ice cream – a Japanese creation, it is described as having a sweet taste. The island of Hokkaido, Japan, is known for manufacturing crab ice cream.
- Crab in oyster sauce – a Chinese seafood dish of crab served in savoury oyster sauce. It is a popular dish in Asia, that can be found from China, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia to the Philippines.
- Crab in Padang sauce or Padang crab – an Indonesian seafood dish of crab served in hot and spicy Padang sauce. It is a popular dish in Indonesia.
- Crab rangoon – deep-fried dumpling appetizers served in American Chinese and, more recently, Thai restaurants, stuffed with a combination of cream cheese, lightly flaked crab meat, with scallions, and/or garlic.
- Curacha Alavar – Filipino spanner crabs in coconut milk with various spices
- Deviled crab – a crab meat croquette. The crab meat is slowly sauteed with seasonings, breaded, rolled into the approximate shape of a rugby football or a small potato, and deep fried.
- Echizen kanimeshi – a type of ekiben from Fukui Prefecture, on the coast of the Sea of Japan
- Ganzuke – a variety of shiokara, salted fermented seafood in Japanese cuisine
- Gejang – a variety of jeotgal, salted fermented seafood in Korean cuisine, which is made by marinating fresh raw crabs either in ganjang or in a sauce based on chili pepper powder. A similar dish exists in China.
- Ginataang alimango/Ginataang alimasag – Filipino black crab or flower crab in coconut milk with calabaza and spices
- Ginataang curacha – Filipino spanner crabs in coconut milk
- Halabos – Filipino crabs cooked in saltwater with spices
- Inulukan – Filipino black crabs in coconut milk and taro leaves.
- Kakuluwo curry – a traditional Sri Lankan crab curry.
- Kanijiru – a traditional Japanese crab soup
- Kare rajungan – a traditional Indonesian of a blue crab in a curry sauce. It is a delicacy from Tuban, East Java.
- Ketam Masak Lemak Cili Api campur Nenas – a traditional Malaysian crab dish which crab is cooked with green spicy chilli and coconut milk together with pineapples. The sweetness of the crab meat is intensified by adding the pineapples.
- Kani Cream Korokke – a Japanese take on the traditional French croquette; can be made with either real or imitation crab meat.
- Njandu roast – Kerala style crab roast.
- Pastel de jaiba – Chilean crab pie.
- She-crab soup – a rich soup, similar to bisque, made of milk or heavy cream, crab or fish stock, Atlantic blue crab meat, and crab roe, and a small amount of dry sherry.
- Soft-shell crab – a culinary term for crabs which have recently molted their old exoskeleton and are still soft.
- * Taba ng talangka – traditional Filipino fermented crab paste. It can be eaten as is over white rice, but can also be used as a condiment or as an ingredient in various Filipino seafood dishes.
- West Indies salad – a variation of crab meat ceviche that originated in the Mobile, Alabama area.
Fish dishes
Carp
- Fisherman's soup – Hungarian fish stew
- Masgouf – fried carp dish from Iraq
Catfish
- Catfish stew – Catfish dish from the American South
- Mohinga – rice noodle and fish soup from Myanmar
Cod and saltfish
- Bacalaíto – Seafood dish from Puerto Rico
- Bacalhau à Brás – Portuguese salt cod dish
- Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá – Typical fish from Porto, Portugal
- Bacalhau à Zé do Pipo – Bacalhau casserole
- Bacalhau com natas – Salt cod casserole
- Bacalhau com todos – Portuguese salt cod dish
- Baccalà all'abruzzese – Italian dish
- Baccalà alla lucana – Christmas dish of cod and red peppers from Basilicata, Italy
- Baccalà alla vicentina – Venetian food dish
- Bolinhos de bacalhau – Portuguese and Brazilian dish of fish balls
- Brandade – Emulsion of salt cod, olive oil, and potatoes
- Esgarret – Valencian cod dish
- Esqueixada – Catalan fish salad
- Fish and brewls – Newfoundland dish of cod and hardtack
- Stamp and Go – Jamaican fritter of saltfish
Eel
Flatfish
Milkfish
Salmon
Sharks and rays
- Bake and shark – Trinidadian street food dish of shark
- Hákarl – Icelandic dish of fermented shark
- Sambal stingray – Barbecued stingray with sambal
- Shark chutney – Shark dish from Seychelles
Lobster dishes
*Octopus dishes
*Oyster dishes
*Shrimp dishes
- Balchão – Goan dish with shrimp, prawn, and shrimp