Sea fish

Seafood recipe ideas

Sea fish is better than freshwater fish for a balanced and healthy eating.
We should choose seafood many times in a week if our aim is to eat low fat recipes and save-the-heart food.
There are a lot of recipes and various ways for cooking sea fish.
Italy, surrounded by the Mediterranean sea, has a great tradition of delicious seafood.
Sea fish can be poached, steamed, pan-fried or deep-fried, grilled, barbecued or baked.
It can be used in fillings, mousses, patés and terrines or as main ingredient for pasta sauce, risotto, appetizers.
Another freat thing about sea fish: it cooks quickly!

Traditional Italian seafood recipes


Anchovies in green sauce Baked grey mullet Baked salmon Baked sardines, Sardinia-style (Sardinia) Boiled salt-dried cod (Venetia) Boiled salmon Fried & marinated fish (carpione) Grouper fillets with peas and saffron Marinated row anchovies Salmon carpaccio Salmon, Scandinavian-style		Salt cod, Basilicata-style (Basilicata) Salt cod, Florence-style (Tuscany) Salt cod, agghiotta style (Sicily) Salt cod casserole with celery root (Trentino, reworked) Stewed monkfish Marches-style (Marches) Stockfish with mushrooms (recipe written by Gino Larosa) Stockfish, Mammola-style (recipe written by Gino Larosa) Tuna, Alghero-style (Sardinia) Tuna with peppers

Italian seafood pasta or rice


Penne with fish sauce, Roma-style		Spaghetti with tuna, Roma-style

Our original home cooking: main dish with fish

Our original home cooking: seafood pasta and rice


Caviar-flavored egg fettuccine Fresh fusilli with tuna & olives Lasagne with fish sauce Noodles with fresh salmon		Rice timbale with stone bass balls Rice salad with chick peas and tuna in oil Rice with aubergines and tuna Spaghetti with capers and anchovies


Anchovy pie Baked cod on a bed of lemons Baked fresh cod Baked gilthead Baked sea bass Boiled cod Boiled mackerels Boiled stockfish, Venetian style Braised swordfish, no tomato Brill on spicy tomatoes Citrus fruits-flavoured grouper fillets Coated swordfish steaks in the oven Cod, miller's style Fish soup without bones Fried sea-bream Gilthead with olives		Grilled and marinated salmon Marinated tuna Plaice fishballs with flat beans Polenta & salt cod Potato and cod pudding Salmon in red wine Salmon salad Sautéed fresh tuna Sardine flat balls Steamed salmon fillets Swordfish with mushrooms Tasty salt cod Turbot fillet rolled and stuffed with broccoli and salmon