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Discover the very best of seafood for Christmas with delicious recipes, menu suggestions, tips and hacks. Find out which seafood is sustainable and where to buy sustainable seafood this Christmas.

Creating a Christmas Seafood Menu

Choosing Sustainable Seafood for Christmas Lunch

There's nothing quite like enjoying delicious seafood outside with family and friends at Christmas.

Even better is knowing that your seafood is sustainable - meaning there's plenty more fish in the sea for future generations.

To know your seafood is sustainable, just look for the MSC blue fish tick when shopping.

Choose Sustainable Seafood

The MSC blue fish tick means your seafood can be traced back to a certified sustainable fishery.

Time saving tips for storing seafood this Christmas

We teamed up with MSC supporter chef Courtney Roulston to provide you with some time-saving tips for storing seafood this Christmas.

Courtney says, always store raw prawns in some iced water in a bowl in the fridge. This prevents them from oxidising and keeps them fresh. 

For crispy skin on fish, I like to leave the fillets of fish on a try just loosely covered with a Chux cloth skin side up. This is a similar process to getting crispy pork crackle. Having the fish skin dry means you will get really crunchy skin when cooking it. 

Seafood Recipes for Christmas

Wild pan fried salmon with pumpkin purée
Prep time
30 mins
Cooking Time
25 mins
Scout's lobster rolls
Prep time
5 mins
Cooking Time
15 mins
Creamy scallops and shallots
Prep time
0 mins
Cooking Time
10 mins
Wild prawn cocktail with a twist
Prep time
30 mins
Cooking Time
6 mins
Wild tiger prawn salad
Prep time
60 mins
Cooking Time
6 mins
Wild banana prawn bisque
Prep time
0 mins
Cooking Time
60 mins
Wild Swinging Sixties prawn cocktail
Prep time
10 mins
Cooking Time
0 mins
Wild prawn larb
Prep time
0 mins
Cooking Time
30 mins
Wild South Australian pipis with saffron butter
Prep time
0 mins
Cooking Time
20 mins
Wild tuna fish cakes
Prep time
0 mins
Cooking Time
30 mins
Lobster salad with avocado and mango
Prep time
30 mins
Cooking Time
0 mins
Wild scallops soy ginger Vermicelli noodle salad cups
Prep time
15 mins
Cooking Time
15 mins
Wild marinated Western Australian octopus tostada
Prep time
15 mins
Cooking Time
0 mins
Wild chargrilled Western Australian octopus with slaw
Prep time
45 mins
Cooking Time
60 mins
Wild rock lobster and chive omelette
Prep time
15 mins
Cooking Time
5 mins