Recipes

These delicious mouthfuls are pure festive indulgence - serve them as canapés at your Christmas party.

An all-in-one-pan salmon traybake, bursting with Thai flavours and fresh vegetables. For a more filling meal, serve with steamed or boiled rice.

A classic dish good at buffets and for large number of guests. Can be prepared in advance.

This easy salad requires only a little cooking, but tastes sensational. If you can't find fresh horseradish, you can add fresh dill to a jar of ready-made horseradish cream.

The smell of cheese in many decent restaurants in France is what differentiates them from similar restaurants in the UK. In this recipe, it will be the smell of the bubbling emmental cheese on the seafood gratin. I thought the accompanying caramelised apple might be a bit too ‘Normande’ for foreign consumption but it was actually really nice.

This fragrant rice dish with seafood, tomatoes and golden raisins makes a wonderful summertime main, drizzled with a parsley, chilli and pine nut butter.

This is a simple fish pie of the kind beloved by children, but with an oaty, buttery cayenne topping. Can be served with cheesy garlic bread and a green salad.

A hearty and creamy seafood chowder brimming with tender fish, prawns, and shellfish, simmered with potatoes, sweetcorn, and aromatic herbs. A warming, comforting dish full of rich, ocean-fresh flavour in every spoonful.

If you can’t get hold of the deliciously meaty black cod fish, you can use a cheaper fish such as pollock. In the Hairy Bikers Far East programme Si and Dave didn’t have an oven on location, so they fried the fish. It can be either baked or fried.

Cooked on the bone for extra flavour, this baked fish served with samphire, veg and seaweed is a celebration of British seafood.