Seafood

Adjust the heat in this riff on Thai tom kha gai to your liking—use one chile for mild heat, two for medium, and three if you want sweat beading on your brow.

Canned coconut milk + bottled mustard = an exquisitely simple sauce for any flaky whitefish.

Yes, you are going to use a whole tin of anchovies here. No, it won’t be too much.

Normally we’d cook meat or fish with the rice so the flavors mingle, but because shrimp cook so fast, we like to pan-fry them and toss with the rice at the very end. 

Crispy chickpeas and gorgeous red endive just made your lunchtime tuna salad a lot more exciting.

Chaat masala adds salty-tangy flavor to this pan-fried fish, and balances the sweet and herby tamarind sauce and cilantro chutney.

Tyna Hoang’s gỏi tôm bắp cải is a colorful salad of cabbage, crunchy vegetables, poached shrimp, and tangy nước chấm.

Creole seasoning is the key to adding a spice cabinet’s worth of flavor in just a few shakes in this one-pot dinner.

Chef Melissa Miranda’s version of the Filipinx fish dish with a velvety-rich tomato sarciado sauce.

Good for dinner at home now, great for (eventual) potlucks in the future.

Shrimp tossed in garlic mayonnaise and griddled on thick bread—as good as a late-night snack, as a handheld appetizer, or a quick weeknight dinner. 

Herbaceous, aromatic, fresh, and—maybe most importantly—simple, this Trini-inspired recipe from Brigid Washington is just the cure for those January blues.

To make this dish vegetarian, skip the shrimp and use cubed pumpkin or squash instead.

The award for best supporting actor goes to this bright, tart root vegetable salad. Slice the daikon and carrots as thinly as possible so there’s tons of surface area to absorb the coconut garlic glaze. 

Tinned sardines add briney flavor (and protein!)—leave them whole or break them up and fold them into the soup.

The fastest route to making salty, fatty, cured salmon at home. 

This classic tuna salad has all the essentials for turning canned tuna into something truly compelling. 

Wrapping a whole snapper in banana leaves keeps the fish super moist—and turns the dish into a total showstopper.

Pretend you’re on the coast—and not your house in the dead of winter—with this bright and spicy aguachile.

This ode to Gullah Geechee cuisine marries crabmeat with corn kernels for a crispy party starter.

Make the most of your mollusks!

Proof that salmon is one of the very best fish in the sea.

The ideal weeknight meal from Maneet Chauhan’s new cookbook Chaat. 

This sour-salty soup was made for using up sweet, late-season tomatoes.