77 seafood sauce recipes

Flounder Florentine with fish fillets rolled around a spinach, rice, and almond filling, baked in cream of mushroom sauce. An elegant make-ahead seafood dinner.

Bold tomato-anchovy sauce clings to al dente spaghetti in this rustic Italian seafood pasta with tuna. Ready in 45 minutes for easy weeknight dinners that taste like coastal Italy.

Irish scallop pie with sweet sea scallops, mushrooms, and a sherry-laced cream sauce blanketed under golden mashed potatoes. A pubby seafood twist on cottage pie that bakes up bubbling and rich.

Scallop and shrimp dumplings pack a gingery seafood filling into pan-fried potstickers, crisp on the bottom and tender on top. Served with a bright ginger-garlic dipping sauce for dunking.

Grilled sea bass over citrus couscous with a reduced orange-onion sauce, coriander and a hit of Tabasco. Bright Mediterranean-style seafood dinner.

San Antonio seafood cocktail sauce made with picante sauce, ketchup, and fresh lemon juice. A Tex-Mex twist on classic cocktail sauce served with chilled shrimp, scallops, or crab.

Seafood lovers will adore this succulent dish where marlin steaks are cooked to perfection in a savory sauce.

Pesto-crusted salmon and sea scallops bake together over a bed of garlic butter sauce. A 5-ingredient seafood dinner with herby green pesto, golden breadcrumbs, and silky scallop sweetness.

New Orleans-style whole artichokes stuffed with oyster souffle and topped with oyster sauce. A dramatic, savory showpiece for seafood lovers.

Stir-fried scallops with snow peas in a light miso and garlic sauce thickened with arrowroot. A quick, clean-flavored seafood stir-fry ready in 15 minutes.

Crispy beer battered soft shell crabs soaked in milk, fried golden, and served with a punchy Asian dipping sauce of fish sauce, lime, honey, and chili. Restaurant-worthy seafood at home.

Vanilla is the secret ingredient in this cross-cultural sauce, which is also delicious served with grilled or roasted meats, poultry or seafood.

Broiled swordfish steaks topped with a lemon, oregano, and sweet red pepper sauce. Cooked over white wine for a bright, Mediterranean-style seafood dinner.

Classic cocktail sauce with horseradish heat, tangy ketchup, and fresh lemon for shrimp or crawfish. This bold, zesty sauce balances sweet tomato with sharp horseradish bite and works for any cold seafood platter.

Stuffed mushrooms with whole littleneck clams topped with a spicy horseradish, mayo, and hot sauce mixture, then broiled until golden. A bold seafood appetizer.

Skordalia, a classic Greek garlic sauce made with mashed potatoes, olive oil, lemon juice, and bread. Pungent, creamy, and served with seafood or vegetables.