22 Best Fish & Seafood Recipes [Easy Dinner Ideas]

The best seafood recipes for your dinner table. Delicious ideas including shrimp, crab, salmon, and more.

Best Fish Seafood Recipes

Dig into brown sugar-glazed salmon encrusted with macadamia nuts; fennel grilled shrimp skewers drizzled with raspberry vinaigrette, or creamy pink dipping sauce crusted roasted shrimp made to taste like lobster.

These easy meals are perfect for those days when you’re short on time and looking for something up healthy but delicious. With these scrumptious shrimp, crab, fish, and other seafood recipes, your taste buds won’t be bored with this big bunch of menu choices!

Seared Ahi Tuna Salad

ahi tuna salad recipe

Tuna steak is an underrated fish cut that deserves more love, as proven by this ahi tuna salad. It is a healthy, fresh dish featuring seared ahi tuna steaks resting on a bed of edamame, radish, and mixed salad greens.

Salads like this are best paired with Asian-inspired flavors like wasabi, ginger, sesame oil, and edamame, so this recipe is served with a sharp Asian dressing. Fresh veggies like cucumbers, bok choy, radishes, and red cabbage take it to an entirely new level.

Toasted Coconut Tilapia with Pomegranate Salsa

Toasted Coconut Tilapia with Pomegranate Salsa

When you are craving the best seafood recipes, the tilapia will be a pleasant delicacy when it is prepared according to this recipe. The tilapia will be tender and will be elevated to a sense of fabulousness with the addition of toasted coconut.

Then when you pair the fish with the splendid pomegranate fruit, orange juice, cilantro and other fresh ingredients, your taste buds will be very eager to dive into this wonderful dish.

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Lemon & Butter Triggerfish

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Triggerish is an underrated type of fish that is as versatile as it is delicious. While it can grilled or pan-fried, our triggerfish recipe oven bakes it in a rich lemon butter sauce to squeeze out every last drop of flavor.

Simply tent your fresh triggerfish fillets in aluminum foil and bake in the oven for ten minutes. The final result will be a creamy, sweet fish that’s similar to the taste of crab.

Chilean Sea Bass

chilean sea bass fillet steak with potatoes and spinach in lemon sauce

Chilean sea bass is an incredibly delicious flakey white fish that pairs perfectly with marinades and butter sauces thanks to its firm flesh. The perfect example of this is our pan-seared Chilean sea bass recipe, which marinates the fish in a soy sauce and sugar glaze before pan-searing it in lemon butter.

Chilean sea bass is notoriously difficult to track down, but luckily it can be easily replicated with other more common types of fish. For the best results, try halibut, cod, or trout.

Pan-searing the fish provides the best results. It develops crispy skin while maintaining a firm but flaky white flesh inside. It has a soft and tender texture and doesn’t have the same overwhelming ‘fishy’ taste that other similar species do.

Boom Boom Shrimp

boom boom shrimp recipe

In boom boom shrimp, skewered shrimp are fried in a flour-cola batter and served with a tasty sauce. Mayonnaise, sweet chili sauce, ketchup, and sriracha make up the decadent sauce to create an addictive flour.

From the golden brown fried shrimp to the creamy sweet-and-spicy boom boom sauce, our boom boom shrimp is the perfect snack or party treat, and only takes 20 minutes to throw together.

Greek Shrimp & Farro Bowls

Greek Shrimp & Farro Bowls

If you are the type of person who is looking to get more grain and vegetables in your diet, because you notice that you are eating so much meat and seafood, the good news is that this recipe allows you to have the combination of the delicious seafood that you love, along with the addition of grain and vegetables.

You will enjoy making this dish, as there is the shrimp that is juicy and sweet, which you just cannot live without. Then you will also be surprised at how well the zucchini, peppers, grain and lemony yogurt blend to provide a pleasant distinctive taste to this amazing dish that is quick and easy to prepare, which is a great option when you have a very busy schedule.

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Shrimp Scampi Pizza

Shrimp Scampi Pizza

When you love a pizza crust and pizza topping, this pizza allows you the best world of pizza and seafood; as it combines shrimp with the cheese. This pizza adds some cornmeal to the bottom to add another interesting layer of texture.

Also, the fact of the shrimp being cooked along with a bit of lemon juice and lemon zest adds a nice balance of freshness to the pizza. Moreover, once the pizza comes out of the oven, it is topped with some Italian parsley, which adds to the amazing flavor indeed.

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Shrimp Quesadillas

Shrimp Quesadillas

If you love quesadillas, you can change them up a bit by using shrimp instead of chicken or beef. The mixture of these quesadillas is undeniably scrumptious with shrimp, bell peppers, onions, cheese and garlic.

The crispy tortillas encase this wonderful and aromatic filling. This is an easy meal to prepare and is ultra satisfying every time. You can serve these impressive quesadillas with sour cream that will set them off just right.

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Shrimp Egg Fried Rice

Shrimp Egg Fried Rice

You really need to try this recipe. Once you taste how sensational it is, this will be a recipe that you will want to make over and over again. The good news is that this is an easy recipe for when you want something that is quick and tastes good when you do not want to bother with a lot of time in the kitchen. Shrimp makes this dish superiorly divine.

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Blackened Salmon Caprese Skewers

Blackened Salmon Caprese Skewers

If you are looking for something that has a wonderful robust flavor and that can make an ordinary day seem a bit more festive, then you will want to try these delightful blackened salmon caprese skewers. You will truly love making this dish every time. All the flavors combine to provide a dining experience that is out of this world.

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Caramelized Salmon

Caramelized Salmon

If you notice that you and your family have been eating the same thing over and over again and now you want a change in the menu, this is an exquisite and delicate dish that is so tantalizing. Also, salmon is healthy for you, which you can feel good about eating. But you will be indulging your sweet tooth as well, as sugar is used in the caramelization process.

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Shrimp & Tofu Pad Tai

Shrimp & Tofu Pad Tai

When you crave restaurant-style Pad Thai, then this is the recipe for you. This is a terrific recipe that is not too complex, which will make it enjoyable for you to complete.

You will appreciate that you can have your meal done in less than thirty minutes, which is great if your spouse unexpectedly invites friends over for supper and does not tell you. This recipe combines bean sprouts, shrimp, tofu, chicken, and even cilantro, which all add to the intrigue of the tastiness of this dish.

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Seafood Pasta

Seafood Pasta

If you love both pasta and seafood, then you will be happy with this dish. It is a joyful dish that makes a nice hearty meal. The sauce is creamy and adds to the beauty of this recipe. This is a recipe that will make great leftovers to take with you to the office the next day for lunch.

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Flounder Meunière

Flounder Meunière

Maybe you have been overlooking flounder fish for a while. Now it is time to incorporate it into your menu once again. It is not an overpowering fish, which is why it is tasty and pleasant. This recipe will be a terrific selection for when you are having a dinner party as well.

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Garlic Butter Lobster Tails

Garlic Butter Lobster Tails

When you are in the mood for something that tastes sublime and is somewhat indulgent, then garlic butter lobster tails need to be on your menu.

When you and your family have been busy all week and have not had much time to interact because of different schedules, you can make a special night when you add this delicacy to your meal. This will truly impress your spouse and show that you put some effort into making the meal and time together enjoyable.

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Herb-Roasted Salmon with Fingerling Potatoes

Herb-Roasted Salmon with Fingerling Potatoes

Combine roasted salmon and potatoes to make a filling and blissful meal. Bring in the tarragon to add an earthy flavor to this dish, along with cilantro and other tasty ingredients. This meal is quick and it will pair nicely with a salad of your choosing. Green beans or corn also make great additional side dishes to serve with this hearty meal.

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Cornmeal Crusted Fish Sticks

Cornmeal Crusted Fish Sticks

When you have been used to eating fish sticks that you buy already made at the grocery store, then it is time to elevate the quality of your fish sticks by making this recipe. The fish sticks are sensational, tasty and real crowd pleasers. They are fun to dip in your favorite sauce. They can be a meal or a snack, which is why this is a great recipe for different situations.

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Honey-Mustard-Glazed Salmon Steaks

Honey-Mustard-Glazed Salmon Steaks

There is something about honey mustard that makes everything taste better. This recipe blends well with the usage of the honey mustard and the salmon. This is a nice family meal. This is also a great dish to bring if you are invited as a guest somewhere and are supposed to bring part of the meal.

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Garlic Butter Shrimp and Rice

Garlic Butter Shrimp and Rice

When you are looking for something that is hearty and light at the same time, then this is the recipe you need to try. The garlic butter flavor will make this dish divine. This is a sort of comfort food and it will be something that the whole family will truly enjoy.

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Caramelized Teriyaki Salmon

Caramelized Teriyaki Salmon

Salmon is far easier to cook at home than you might think. And I don’t just mean good. I mean restaurant-style good. This teriyaki salmon is all the proof you need.

This recipe uses rice vinegar (you can use apple cider vinegar or lemon juice if you need a rice vinegar substitute), sugar, and sake to take the fish cut’s flavors to an entirely new level. Paired perfectly with grains and vegetables, and topped with a rich teriyaki sauce, this is one hell of an addictive fish.

Bacon-Wrapped Scallops

Bacon Wrapped Scallops

It would be a rare occasion to find someone who does not love bacon. So here is a recipe that allows you another wonderful way to use bacon in a creative and tasty manner. Scallops wrapped in bacon are much more decadent.

After you try this recipe, you likely will not be able to eat scallops just plain again. They will be wrapped in bacon every time, because they are so awesome this way.

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Honey Garlic Butter Scallops

Honey Garlic Butter Scallops

This Greek-style seafood dish takes everything we love about one of favorite proteins and elevates it with decadent caramelization. Start by pan-frying scallops in honey garlic butter with orzo before serving on a bed of herb-infused rice and topped with feta cheese.

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