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Fish recipes

Whole, filleted, fried and steamed — white fish and oily alike. 152 recipes on the site call for fish.

Fish cooks fast and keeps cooking off the heat, so the methods give a cue for when it is done: flakes that separate, flesh that has just turned opaque. Check the storage note before keeping leftovers, since cooked fish keeps for less time than most dishes.

Fish is in 152 recipes from 46 cuisines, among them 113 dinners, 19 appetisers and small plates, 8 quick meals and 7 lunches. The cuisines that use it most here are British (24), American (23), Italian (10) and French (9). Of these, 46 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Air Fryer Cod (15 min), Air Fryer Tilapia (15 min) and Arbroath Smokie (15 min). For 47, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 81 easy, 66 medium and 5 hard.

As written, 54 are gluten-free and 70 dairy-free. Another 6 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

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Fish recipes — all 152 recipes

Beer-Battered Fish and Chips
BritishFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Beer-Battered Fish and Chips

Beer batter that shatters, chips with a fluffy interior, and a proper mushy pea and tartare sauce alongside. The…

2 hr · Medium
Kimbap
KoreanFeatured
Prep
35m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Kimbap

Seasoned rice and a row of cooked fillings rolled in seaweed, brushed with sesame oil and cut into coins. Korea's…

55 min · Medium
Baja Fish Tacos
Mexican
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Baja Fish Tacos

Baja-style tacos with beer-battered white fish, a lime crema and shredded cabbage for crunch. Twenty minutes from…

35 min · Easy
Peruvian Ceviche
PeruvianFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
0m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Peruvian Ceviche

Firm white fish cured for ten minutes in lime juice with chilli, red onion and coriander, served immediately with…

25 min · Easy
Cioppino
American
Prep
25m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Cioppino

San Francisco's Italian-American fishermen's stew — crab, clams, mussels, prawns and firm fish in a tomato and wine…

65 min · Medium
Moqueca Baiana
Brazilian
Prep
20m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Moqueca Baiana

Bahian fish stew of coconut milk, tomato, peppers and coriander, cooked in a clay pot and finished with dendê palm…

80 min · Easy
Egusi Soup
Nigerian
Prep
20m
Cook
105m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Egusi Soup

Ground melon seeds cooked in palm oil with leafy greens, meat and stockfish until they set into rich, savoury curds…

2 hr · Medium
Ackee and Saltfish
Jamaican
Prep
20m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Ackee and Saltfish

Jamaica's national dish: ackee, a fruit whose cooked flesh looks and behaves remarkably like scrambled egg, sautéed…

12.5–24.5 hr+ · Easy
Kake Udon Noodle Soup
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
2
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Lunch

Kake Udon Noodle Soup

Thick, bouncy udon in a clear kake broth of dashi, soy and mirin — restorative, restrained and on the table in…

25 min · Easy
Kerala Fish Curry
Indian
Prep
20m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Kerala Fish Curry

Meen curry from the Malabar coast: fish poached in a coconut milk gravy sharpened with kudampuli, the smoky sour…

65 min · Easy
Shui Zhu Fish
Chinese
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Shui Zhu Fish

White fish poached in a chilli and Sichuan pepper broth, buried under dried chillies and garlic, and finished by…

65 min · Medium
Bacalhau à Brás
Portuguese
Prep
20m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Bacalhau à Brás

Salt cod shredded and folded through straw-thin fried potatoes and softly scrambled egg. Named after a Lisbon tavern…

25–37 hr · Easy
Lohikeitto
Finnish
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Lohikeitto

Finnish salmon soup: potatoes and leek in a light stock, cream stirred in, salmon poached off the heat, and dill…

40 min · Easy
Cullen Skink
Scottish
Prep
15m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Cullen Skink

Smoked haddock, potato and onion in a thick milk soup from the Moray coast. Four ingredients, and all of them have…

45 min · Easy
Arroz de Marisco
Portuguese
Prep
25m
Cook
50m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Arroz de Marisco

Portuguese seafood rice, wetter than a paella and served in the pot, built on a tomato and coriander refogado with…

75–80 min · Medium
Cá Kho Tộ
Vietnamese
Prep
20m
Cook
45m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Cá Kho Tộ

Fish steaks braised in a clay pot with caramel sauce, fish sauce and black pepper until the liquid reduces to a…

85 min · Medium
Sri Lankan Fish Curry
Sri Lankan
Prep
20m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Sri Lankan Fish Curry

Fish simmered in coconut milk with roasted curry powder, goraka and curry leaves — dark, sour and considerably…

50 min · Easy
Chawanmushi
Japanese
Prep
15m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Chawanmushi

A savoury egg custard steamed in a lidded cup, holding prawn, chicken and ginkgo nuts suspended in a set so delicate…

35 min · Medium
Marseille Bouillabaisse
French
Prep
30m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Marseille Bouillabaisse

Marseille's great fisherman's stew: a saffron and fennel broth built from the bones and heads, poured over firm…

90 min · Hard
Norwegian Fish Soup
Norwegian
Prep
20m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Norwegian Fish Soup

Salmon and white fish poached at the last minute in a creamy soup built on fish stock, root vegetables and a splash…

50 min · Easy
Smoked Mackerel Pâté
British
Prep
12m
Cook
0m
Serves
2
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Appetizers

Smoked Mackerel Pâté

Smoked mackerel beaten with cottage cheese, lemon and horseradish into a coarse pâté — twelve minutes, no cooking.

42 min · Easy
Kedgeree
British
Prep
20m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Kedgeree

Smoked haddock, curried rice and soft-boiled eggs — a Victorian breakfast borrowed from khichri and improved by the…

50 min · Medium
Sardines on Toast
British
Prep
8m
Cook
7m
Serves
2
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Quick Meals

Sardines on Toast

Tinned sardines mashed with lemon, chilli and parsley on charred sourdough. Fifteen minutes, about two pounds a…

15 min · Easy
Sayadieh
Lebanese
Prep
30m
Cook
55m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Sayadieh

Fish poached, set aside, and its stock used to cook rice under a mountain of onions taken almost to black. Tripoli…

85 min · Medium
AI-generated illustration of Samke Harra
Lebanese
Prep
30m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Samke Harra

Whole fish under a tahini, chilli and coriander sauce, from Tripoli. The sauce is loosened with the fish stock and…

70 min · Medium
Sayadeya Masreya
Egyptian
Prep
30m
Cook
55m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Sayadeya Masreya

The Egyptian fisherman’s rice: fish fried rather than poached, rice cooked in the frying oil and stock, and the…

85 min · Medium
Kabkabou
Tunisian
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Kabkabou

Fish braised with preserved lemon, olives, tomato and saffron, from the coast. The sauce is finished around the fish…

55 min · Easy
Hout Mechoui
Tunisian
Prep
20m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Hout Mechoui

Whole fish grilled over coals with nothing on it but oil and salt, served with tastira and lemon. The restraint is…

65 min · Easy
Brandade de Morue
French
Prep
30m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Brandade de Morue

Salt cod beaten with potato, garlic, oil and milk into a warm purée. Nîmes makes it without potato and everyone else…

37 hr · Medium
Soupe de Poisson
French
Prep
30m
Cook
55m
Serves
6
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Lunch

Soupe de Poisson

Whole small fish cooked down and forced through a mouli, served with rouille, croutons and grated cheese. Not…

85 min · Medium
Quenelles de Brochet
French
Prep
50m
Cook
35m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Quenelles de Brochet

Pike beaten with choux paste into weightless dumplings, poached and baked in a crayfish sauce. Lyon, and one of the…

2.5 hr+ · Hard
Bar en Croûte de Sel
French
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Bar en Croûte de Sel

A whole fish buried in salt bound with egg white and baked. The crust sets hard, seals completely, and the fish…

55 min · Medium
Baccalà Mantecato
Italian
Prep
25m
Cook
30m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Baccalà Mantecato

Salt cod beaten with oil until it turns into a pale, fluffy cream. No potato, no garlic — Venice is firm about both.

37 hr · Medium
Sarde in Saor
Italian
Prep
30m
Cook
30m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Sarde in Saor

Fried sardines buried in sweet-sour onions with pine nuts and raisins. Venetian sailors' food, and it needs two days…

2 days · Medium
Pasta con le Sarde
Italian
Prep
30m
Cook
35m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Pasta con le Sarde

Sardines, wild fennel, raisins, pine nuts and saffron. Sicily's Arab inheritance on a plate, and the toasted…

65 min · Medium
Cacciucco
Italian
Prep
35m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Cacciucco

Livorno's fish stew, with five kinds of fish for the five Cs in its name, over garlic-rubbed bread. Poor food that…

95 min · Medium
Brodetto all'Anconetana
Italian
Prep
30m
Cook
45m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Brodetto all'Anconetana

The Adriatic answer to cacciucco, sharpened with vinegar instead of wine. Ancona claims thirteen kinds of fish and…

75 min · Medium
Sarde a Beccafico
Italian
Prep
35m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Sarde a Beccafico

Butterflied sardines rolled around breadcrumbs, pine nuts and raisins, packed into a dish with bay leaves and baked…

55 min · Medium
Stargazy Pie
British
Prep
45m
Cook
45m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Stargazy Pie

A Cornish fish pie with the heads of the pilchards poking through the crust to look at the sky. It sounds like a…

2.5 hr · Hard
Fish Pie
British
Prep
30m
Cook
70m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Fish Pie

White fish, smoked fish and prawns under mashed potato, in a sauce made from the milk the fish poached in. The mash…

100 min+ · Medium
Siu Mai
Chinese
Prep
40m
Cook
12m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Siu Mai

Open-topped pork and prawn dumplings in a yellow wrapper, finished with a dot of roe. The other half of the dim sum…

82 min · Medium
Duo Jiao Yu Tou
Chinese
Prep
25m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Duo Jiao Yu Tou

A split fish head steamed under a mound of chopped salted red chillies. Hunan's signature, and it uses fresh pickled…

50 min · Medium
Steamed Whole Fish
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Steamed Whole Fish

A whole fish steamed for twelve minutes and finished with smoking oil poured over raw ginger and spring onion. The…

30 min · Easy
Yong Tau Foo
Chinese
Prep
40m
Cook
30m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Yong Tau Foo

Tofu, peppers, aubergine and chillies stuffed with a fish and pork paste, fried and then simmered in a clear soup…

70 min · Medium
Fish Tikka
Indian
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Fish Tikka

Firm white fish in a yoghurt and carom seed marinade, charred at the edges. Thirty-five minutes and no tandoor…

55 min · Easy
Seafood Chowder
New Zealand
Prep
25m
Cook
35m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Seafood Chowder

A creamy chowder of white fish, mussels and prawns with potato, bacon and celery. The pub-menu classic, in an hour.

60 min · Medium
Baked Cod
American
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Baked Cod

Cod fillets brushed with Dijon and topped with a buttery lemon and parsley crumb, baked at 200°C until the topping…

25 min · Easy
Fish Finger Sandwich
British
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
2
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Lunch

Fish Finger Sandwich

Homemade cod fingers in a crisp panko crumb, fried until golden and piled into buttered bread with tartare sauce and…

25 min · Easy

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