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Fried whiting with beer batter.

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Beer batter, seafood sauce, and more essential recipes for Good Friday

From oysters Kilpatrick to a creamy pot pie, these Easter recipes are all about good-quality seafood and the sauces and dressings that bring them to life.

28 recipes
Fish burger.

Adam Liaw’s foolproof fish burgers

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Dive right into this creamy seafood pie.

RecipeTin Eats’ Good Friday seafood pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • RecipeTin Eats
Marie Rose sauce is a classic accompaniment to seafood.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s classic seafood sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s classic beer-battered fish and chips.

Adam Liaw’s classic beer-battered fish and chips

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Morgan McGlone's four ingredient chicken salt.
EASY

Chicken salt

  • < 30 mins
  • Morgan McGlone
Cold Kilpatrick oysters.
EASY

Cold oysters Kilpatrick

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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RecipeTin Eats’ prawn cocktail salad
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ prawn cocktail salad

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
If you don’t like spice, they’re delicious with the garlic parsley.
EASY

Baked scallops with garlic-parsley butter and ’nduja

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Adam Liaw Masterclass recipe: Prawn cocktail.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s prawn cocktail

  • < 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
Swedish prawn rolls.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s Swedish prawn rolls

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chillies keep the chill at bay in this quick and easy feast.

Tomato chilli mussels

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
No-fuss seafood chowder pot pies.
EASY

‘No fuss’ seafood chowder pot pies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
The Builders Arms fish pie is a year-round favourite.

The Builders Arms’ fish pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Andrew McConnell
Curried fish gratin.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s curried fish gratin

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Buttermilk oven baked fish with green apple slaw.
EASY

Oven-baked buttermilk snapper with green apple slaw

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Barbecue fish burgers with easy tartare sauce.
EASY

Barbecue fish burger with easy tartare sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Snapper schnitzel with grilled lettuce and dill tartare.

Snapper schnitzel with charred lettuce and easy dill tartare sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Steamed snapper with fried ginger, chilli and Vietnamese mint.
EASY

Steamed fish with ginger, chilli and mint

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Roasting tomatoes intensifies the flavour, which pairs perfectly with the black barley.

Karen Martini’s simple crumbed fillets

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Tuna cakes.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ tuna patties

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Baked snapper fillets

Baked snapper fillets with preserved lemon butter, green peas, fennel, almonds

  • < 30 mins
  • Shane Delia
Fried whiting with beer batter.
EASY

Fried whiting with beer batter

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Pan-fried whiting

Pan-fried whiting with burnt butter and herb salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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Salmon and creamed spinach en croute.
EASY

Salmon and creamed spinach en croute

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's fish pot pies

Neil Perry’s fish pot pies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Easy salmon en croute.
EASY

Jamie Oliver's easy salmon en croute

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jamie Oliver
Seafood pie with potato crust.
EASY

Seafood pie with potato crust

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry