I spent much of my career running Australia’s largest recreational cooking school, Sydney Seafood School at Sydney Fish Market. I love the quality and diversity of Australian seafood and I’ve learnt a bit about preparing it from my chef friends over the years, we even wrote a book on it! Here are some of my favourite seafood recipes.
Crustaceans are easy to prepare and versatile. Most of these recipes suit prawns, bugs, rock lobsters, marrons or yabbies.
Oysters, scallops, mussels, pipis, vongole and other clams hide a tasty nugget of meat inside their shells – and they're quick and easy to cook.
Octopus, squid and cuttlefish are great barbecued or stir-fried quickly, or in long slow flavourful braises.
Australia has a huge variety of fish species to discover. Use these fish recipes for inspiration and start exploring.
Whether it's plate-sized trout or larger whole fish, they make a stunning presentation and are easy to cook once you know how.
Let’s not overlook the excellent (and convenient) preserved and smoked seafoods used in many classic dishes.
Are prawns Australia's favourite seafood? They’re quick, versatile and tasty. With my cooking tips, you'll get succulent results every time.
Salmon is great in all sorts of recipes. Its flesh stays moist, its skin crisps beautifully and its pretty pink colour looks lovely on the plate.
Meaty red-fleshed tuna is delicious raw, seared, rare or cooked through; from sashimi-grade to off-cuts it has so many different uses.
Smoked or fresh, whole or filleted, freshwater rainbow trout are among the most versatile and easy fish to cook.
From Greece and Turkey, through the Levant to North Africa, so many delicious dishes combine seafood with rich Middle Eastern flavours.
Asia's many cuisines are rich in seafood dishes. Here are a few of my favourite Asian seafood recipes to get you started.
For the firepit, gas powered barbecue or small hibachi, here are my favourite seafood BBQ recipes; you can even cook them on a char-grill pan if need be.
Here's how to cook with seafood. From the best way to store and boil prawns to cooking them for sushi, cleaning crabs and stripping squid.
