List of seafood dishes facts for kids

Plateau de fruits de mer (French 'seafood platter') is a seafood dish of raw and cooked shellfish served cold on a platter, usually on a bed of ice.

Seafood on a platter

This is a list of notable seafood dishes. Seafood dishes are food dishes which use seafood (fish, shellfish or seaweed) as primary ingredients, and are ready to be served or eaten with any needed preparation or cooking completed. Many fish or seafood dishes have a specific name ("cioppino"), while others are simply described ("fried fish") or named for particular places ("Cullen skink"). Bisques are prepared with a variety of seafoods.

Seafood dishes

Cioppino is a fish stew originating in San Francisco.

Maeuntang is a hot spicy Korean cuisine fish soup boiled with gochujang (Korean red chili pepper paste), kochukaru (chili powder), and various vegetables.

Shrimp scampi

A seafood birdsnest

Scottish prawns in a platter

Mixed seafood dishes

• Baik kut kyee kaik
• Balchão
• Bánh canh
• Bisque
• Bún mắm
• Bún riêu
• Ceviche
• Chowder
• Cioppino
• Crawfish pie
• Curanto
• Espetada
• Fideuà
• Halabos
• Hoe
• Hoedeopbap
• Kaeng som
• Kedgeree
• Maeuntang
• Mie cakalang
• Moules-frites
• Namasu
• New England clam bake
• Paella
• Paelya
• Paila marina
• Piaparan
• Plateau de fruits de mer
• Seafood basket
• Seafood birdsnest
• Seafood boil
• Seafood cocktail
• Seafood pizza
• Stroganina
• Sundubu jjigae
• Surf and turf
• Sushi
• Tinumok

Clam dishes

Clam chowder is any of several chowders containing clams and broth. Diced potato and onions are also common ingredients. Pictured is New England-style clam chowder.

Crab dishes

Black pepper crab is a popular way to prepare crab in Singapore.

Fish dishes

Lobster dishes

Lobster Thermidor is a French dish consisting of a creamy mixture of cooked lobster meat, egg yolks, and cognac or brandy, stuffed into a lobster shell.

• Ginataang sugpo
• Lobster bisque
• Lobster Newberg
• Lobster roll
• Lobster stew
• Scampi
• Lobster thermidor

Octopus dishes

• Miruhulee boava
• Nakji-bokkeum
• Nakji-yeonpo-tang
• Polbo á feira
• Polvo à Lagareiro
• Pulpo a la campechana
• Akashiyaki
• San-nakji
• Takoyaki

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  Nakji-bokkeum (stir-fried octopus)

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  Octopus cooking in a pot

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  Pulpo a la campechana

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  San-nakji (sliced raw octopus)

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  Takoyaki is a ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and typically filled with minced or diced octopus.

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  Nakji-yeonpo-tang (octopus soup)

Oyster dishes

Oysters Rockefeller consists of oysters on the half-shell that have been topped with various other ingredients (often parsley and other green herbs, a rich butter sauce and bread crumbs) and are then baked or broiled.

• Angels on horseback
• Hangtown fry
• Oyster omelette
• Oyster sauce
• Oyster vermicelli
• Oysters Bienville
• Oysters en brochette
• Oysters Kirkpatrick
• Oysters Rockefeller
• Steak and oyster pie

Shrimp dishes

A prawn cocktail

Squid dishes

Deep fried calamari

• Adobong pusit
• Arròs negre
• Dried shredded squid
• Fried calamari
• Gising-gising
• Ikameshi
• Orange cuttlefish
• Paella negra
• Pancit choca
• Squid cocktail
• Cuttlefish