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Let's go cray cray: 50 sensational Christmas seafood recipes

Luxurious lobster, oysters on ice, prawns on the barbie and silky smoked salmon generously draped over anything. Christmas is no time to hold back.

39 recipes
Forget an extravaganza. Serve up something homemade and heartfelt.

Seafood boil with champagne, lobster and prawns

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's grilled scallops with herb butter.
EASY

Adam Liaw's roasted scallops with tarragon butter

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Prawns with green mustard mayonnaise.
EASY

Adam Liaw's prawns with green mustard mayonnaise

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Crayfish laksa

Crayfish laksa

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew Blake
Adam Liaw's insalata di mare.

Adam Liaw's Italian seafood salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Serve the prawns on a platter for guests to help themselves to.
EASY

Poached king prawns with creme fraiche

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Steamed Ballina king prawns with sea parsley, spring onion and ginger dipping sauce.

Steamed king prawns with sea parsley, spring onion and ginger dipping sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Barbecue prawns with two brilliant sauces.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Barbecue prawns with chimichurri and Marie Rose sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Coriander and mustard roasted salmon with coriander, finger lime and kohlrabi salad

Coriander and mustard roasted salmon with finger lime and kohlrabi salad

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
King prawn asparagus and avocado salad

Neil Perry's Christmas king prawn salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's seafood antipasto.

Rosetta's seafood antipasto

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Barbecued salmon scattered with festive "tapenade".

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Christmas barbecue salmon

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
What’s more Aussie than prawns on the barbie.
EASY

Barbecue prawn recipe: Buried prawns with salt and herbs

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Kylie Kwong's poached lobster.

How to poach a lobster or crayfish

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Prawn crackers.
EASY

Prawn crackers with salmon roe, nashi and roasted chilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
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This salmon topped with tahini sauce, walnuts, mint and pomegranate is great warm or cold.
EASY

Side of salmon with walnuts, tahini, mint and pomegranate molasses

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Lobster rolls with yuzu mayo and potato chips.

Boxing Day yuzu mayo lobster rolls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Lobster tail salad with truffle oil

Lobster tail salad with truffle oil

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Let your guests DIY with this Swedish-inspired party platter.
EASY

Adam Liaw's prawn party

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
This whole barbecued fish would be a showstopper on any summer table.

Rosheen Kaul's barbecued sambal snapper

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rosheen Kaul
Prawn, scallop and ocean trout ceviche

Prawn, scallop and ocean trout ceviche

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
Prawn, avocado and grapefruit salad

Prawn, avocado and grapefruit salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Brigitte Hafner
Prawn cocktail.
EASY

Prawn cocktail canapes

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Bloody Mary prawn cocktail
EASY

Bloody mary prawn cocktail

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Prawn cocktail
EASY

Prawn, scallop and crab seafood cocktail

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Lobster alla plancha.

Lobster alla plancha with saffron aioli

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Potted crayfish and toasts

Potted crayfish and toasts

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Stephanie Alexander
Lobster sandwiches for Valentine's.
EASY

Lobster sandwiches

  • < 30 mins
Matt Moran's Christmas starter: Oysters with chardonnay dressing.
EASY

Oysters recipe: Christmas oysters with chardonnay dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Matt Moran
oysters with salmon roe, Luke Mangan, 'what I cook when...' PIC BY MARK CHEW, TAMM
EASY

Oysters with salmon roe

  • < 30 mins
  • Luke Mangan
Neil Perry's seafood couscous

Neil Perry's seafood cous cous

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Crispy potato and herb cake with smoked salmon

Scrambled eggs with champagne and smoked salmon

  • < 30 mins
  • Lynne Mullins
Simple smoked salmon canapes.
EASY

Smoked salmon canapes

  • < 30 mins
  • Jeremy and Jane Strode
Smoked salmon tartlets

Smoked salmon tartlets

  • 2 hrs +
Smoked salmon pate

Smoked salmon pate

  • < 30 mins
  • From the Gluten Free Finger food cookbook by Rick Grant
Chilli prawn sandwiches.
EASY

Chilli prawn sandwiches

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/goodfood/recipes/the-decadent-christmas-seafood-collection-20171205-gzz5vg.html