A delicious collection of fish and seafood appetizers, these recipes will looking stunning on any table. Whether your looking for a dinner party recipe, creating a private dinner for two or planning your Christmas holiday menu, we have the perfect fish or seafood recipe for you.
Our appetizer recipes our stunning and delicious, follow our top chef tips to recreating this dishes!

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Fiji Coconut Cured Fish
This cured fish salad is seriously delicious and too stunning not to include in our collection fish and seafood appetizers.
Curing fish is simple to learn, with thinly sliced fish and an acid based dressing that lightly cooks the protein. The finished dish won't disappoint and this salad is a fresh way to start any menu.
Tempura Oysters With Wasabi Mayonnaise
Are these not the perfect oyster appetizer! A delight to the eye and palate, perfect for shared platters and hosting friends over Christmas. These beautiful oysters are sweet, crisp, sharp and refreshing with every mouthful!
Creating tempura batter is a great method to learn and can be transferred to lots of dishes. Let us show you how.
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Smoked Salmon Dip
A great appetizer for making ahead, this smoked salmon dip works perfectly of shared platters. A classic recipe with a few extra ingredients to have your taste buds singing.
Our best advice with this dish, is to make extras! Happy dipping!
Snapper ceviche
Served with tortillas for a great crowd pleasing appetizer. A simple dish to whip up with beautiful fresh flavours. This recipe ticks all the boxes for a great appetizer.
We love using snapper but most firm white fish will work well for ceviche, follow our recipe link below for more tips and tricks to recreating this dish.
Spicy coconut mussel salad
Delicious plump mussels with a creamy, spicy and sweet coconut dressing, perfect shared with friends and a glass of wine.
This dressing brings amazing flavour to beautiful seafood. We are lucky here in New Zealand to have access to fresh green lipped mussels, follow our recipe and see how you can cook up this dish depending on what mussels are available to you.
Warning, once you share this with family and friends you maybe asked to make it for every occasion!
Fresh Oysters With A Mignonette Dressing
A simple French classic, these oyster's will bring sophistication to any occasion. Our dressing brings out the natural deliciousness of oysters.
Let us walk you through preparing oysters and creating this dish.
Clam Tostadas
These clam tostadas are filled with amazing flavour and are a real social seafood appetizer. Perfect for less formal occasions or simple for enjoy with family of the weekend.
Many elements of this recipe can be prepared ahead, for a great build your own option.
A versatile recipe let us show you how to whip up these Mexican treats!
We hope this collection of fish and seafood appetizers have you inspired to whip up delicious dishes that your friends and family will love. There's nothing better than sharing good food with good company, enjoy!
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Our goal is to share simple, tasty dishes created by Chef Shane and partner, Sara. Using Shane's understanding of flavours and knowledge of food, to teach and inspire you to create delicious food everyday and gain a new level of confidence in the kitchen. Sara understands what it's like preparing weekly dinners for a busy family of five and likes to create dishes that are easy, full of flavour, that the whole family will enjoy.
Happy cooking!
Maria San Juan
YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM! Love these recipes! My daughter will surely love this! Thanks for sharing!
Julie
This is a fabulous list of seafood dishes. I’ll have to try them all.
Sara Welch
What a great list of holiday dishes! Will definitely be giving some of these a try; they all look too good to pass up, indeed!
Anjali
All of these recipes look so satisfying and healthy! I can’t figure out which one to make first – it might have to be the Thai Seafood Salad! Yum!
Jacqueline Meldrum
So many ideas for those looking for an alternative on Christmas Day