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Light & Elegant: Summer Seafood Dinners to Savor π‘
Published 10 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
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Think soft flickers of candlelight, a hint of citrus in the air, something light and flaky on your fork... β This is seafood for summer evenings, designed to melt the day right off your shoulders.
Summer Seafood Dinners
Let it flake, melt, swirl, and hush the day right out of you.
This flounder with lemon butter sauce is easy, healthy, quick, elegant, family-friendly, and requires that you clean up only a single skillet. That's to say nothing of its crisp brown crust and flaky perfection.
The secret to these pan-seared scallops in butter is to cook them in a hot skillet with ripplingly-hot oil and occasionally baste them with butter. That's it. Simple, quick, and impressive. Twenty minutes from fridge to table.
These crab cake burgers, made with plenty of crab, pimento, Old Bay seasoning, and a little egg, mayo, and crackers to bind, are an enduring summer classic.
Shrimp with chorizo is startlingly simple, considering how impressive it is. Shrimp, smoky sausage, garlic, chile, and lemon come together in just about half an hour. Serve it as a main for twoβor share it tapas-style with friends.
Tuna salad with white beans is an elegantly simple dish that can be prepped in minutes. Full of protein and healthy fat, it will leave you satisfied but not sluggish.
These salmon cakes are pan-fried and served with an avocado dip and chimichurri sauce. Certain to banish all memories of the less-than-stellar fish cakes of your youth.
These Baja-style tempura fish tacos are as authentic as they come. White fish is dunked in a quick chile-lime marinade and then battered and pan-fried until crisp before being tucked in soft tortillas and topped with slaw and banana mango salsa.
Most people I know have a love-hate relationship with salmon. Hereβs one way to make everyone fall in love: add smoke, bourbon, and sweet tea. Youβll need to cure the salmon the night before, but the process is totally worth it. I like to start smoking as the fire is burning down from a different smoke and there arenβt many coals left.
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