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Italian cold seafood appetizers

The question is: what's the best season to prepare and eat a cold starter made with fish, crustaceans and molluscs? almost all year round, without any distinction between winter and summer months even if everyone prefers them when it's hot.

  • Marinated raw anchovies
  • Anchovies in green sauce
  • Salmon carpaccio
  • Raw seafood assorted platter
  • Prawn-and-potato salad with black truffle
  • Fish salad
  • Assorted fish antipasto platter
  • Raw oysters
  • Stuffed hot cherry peppers in oil
  • Soused fish or fried & marinated fish

    How to serve cold seafood starters

    Some examples? What do you think of fish carpaccio? nowadays you can do it with salmon, tuna, swordfish. My husband and I have also eaten shrimp and octopus carpaccio. Delicious! And then there are seafood salad, marinated anchovies, marinated fish, oysters, raw shrimp ... They are traditional, widely-used recipes, of course, but it is equally true that seafood lovers like them a lot.
    I often prepare prawn or scampi salads, with or without added vegetables and sauces.
    They all are tempting, tasty dishes that can be used to assemble an assorted antipasto platter, Italian style too.
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    Assorted fish antipasto platter

    Fish platter to start a typical Italian menu

    Polenta slices topped with anchovies in oil, salt cod sauce and prawns. All these tidbits are combined with swordfish carpaccio and salmon. What about it?

    Anchovies in green sauce

    anchovies in green sauce

    Cold dish. You have to serve them with other tasteful fish tidbits.
    It's a very simple recipe to do at home as long as you have fresh ingredients, especially anchovies.

    Boiled stockfish, Venetian-style

    stockfish dish as starter, cold

    This stockfish dish is very simple to do but tasty. It's ideal to start every fish menu all year round. You can combine it to many other dishes based on fish. I often prepare it for my Christmas Eve dinner menu

    Italian assorted raw seafood platter

    seafood crudités with tuna and shrimps

    Are you seafood lovers? do you like crudités? here's the recipe for you! Its ingredients? fresh tuna, scampi and prawns.

    King prawns salad with black truffle

    king prawns in cold salad

    It's extraordinary the combination between black truffle and prawns. My recipe is simple but delicious. This salad can be served with scallops and sliced fish, in brine or smoked. However it's great in many other combinations.

    Marinated raw anchovies

    marinated raw anchovies

    This is a typical recipe of traditional Italian cuisine, particularly Sicilian cuisine. Marinated raw anchovies are very tasty but you have to use very fresh, fleshy, good-quality blue fish.

    Raw oysters

    raw oysters, how to serve them

    Serve oysters on a bed of ice accompanying them with lemon slices and freshly ground pepper. Everyone will be able to season oysters according to his own taste.

    Salmon Carpaccio

    carpaccio of fresh salmon

    This is a perfect solution for a seafood antipasto (Italian starter) all year round. The only problem is to find very fresh salmon.

    Soused fish or fried & marinated fish

    carpione fish, Italian style

    Fried and marinated fish (carpione) is another classic Italian dish for Christmas and all year round. The recipe is not difficult to do and is suitable to be served together with other fish appetizers.