Seafood appetizers: 4 quick and easy ideas – Italian Cuisine


Do you want to bring some sea to the table? From tuna to salmon, from shrimp to scallop, with these 4 fish-based starters, you will not go wrong and you will make a great impression!

Summer, desire for sun, lightness and … sea, even at the table! Who claims that cooking the fish it is expensive in terms of energy, time and money, you are wrong: with few ingredients – even cheap ones – and in a short time you can get some pretty good dishes.

Like the appetizers that we are about to propose: 4 original ideas, really easy, fast and original!

Below you will find the recipes, in the gallery, however, some Advice for matching and storing dishes.

Bruschetta with tuna

Let's start with something you sure already have at home, like these alternative bruschetta. Get: 150 grams of goat cheese, 180 grams of gorgonzola, 1 baguette, 3 cans of tuna small (or 1 large), chives to taste. Do this: First, add the two cheeses in a bowl and mix well, to obtain a homogeneous cream (if the gorgonzola is not appreciated, it can be omitted from the recipe). Drain the tuna and chop it coarsely, then finely chop the chives, then cut the baguette into rounds and toast them lightly. Now stuff the bread discs with a layer of cream cheese, on which you will put the tuna into pieces and a sprinkling of chopped chives. Arrange the stuffed discs on a large plate and serve on the table.

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Rice cakes with shrimp and avocado

When naming the crackers, always seems to eat something tasteless. But with this dish you will change your mind. Get: 8 rice cakes, 8 shrimp, 1 avocado, 1 cucumber, 200 gr of spreadable cheese, 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, chives to taste. Do so: start with prawns, the most laborious to prepare. Sauté them in a pan with a drizzle of oil for a few minutes, until they turn orange. Then clean them, removing the head, shell and intestines. Now switch to the avocado: after having peeled it and removed the stone, cut it into slices. Cut the cucumber into slices as well. Finely chop the chives. Now assemble the ingredients: on each biscuit, spread a layer of cheese, then the cucumber, the avocado slice, finally the shrimp. Sprinkle with the mince and serve. If you don't like the biscuits, use crackers.

Fans of salmon, kiwi and grapefruit

Salmon is a truly versatile fish that requires little processing to be consumed. Get: 200 g of smoked salmon, fresh goat cheese, chives, extra virgin olive oil, black pepper. Do this: spread the salmon slices on a sheet of baking paper. You will need to form a rectangle of 20 × 10 centimeters by overlapping them. Spread the surface with the goat cheese that you have previously seasoned with extra virgin olive oil and pepper. Roll the salmon with the help of parchment paper, transfer it to the plastic wrap and put it in the fridge for an hour. Then remove the film, cut the roll into rings, and serve with a drizzle of oil, chopped chives and some bread sticks or crispy bread.

Scallop pulp with green pesto

There scallop it's a clam appreciated, but little used in the kitchen. Try it like this, obtaining transportation: 6 scallop pulps, 4 cherry tomatoes, 1 clove of garlic, 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, parsley, basil, thyme and salt to taste. Do so: sear the scallop pulp in a non-stick pan, until the surface turns golden. Then prepare the pesto, putting the aromatic herbs, garlic and two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in the blender. Chop everything, until you get a liquid cream. Wash the tomatoes, cut them into cubes. Now assemble on a serving dish: as a base a spoonful of pesto, then the scallop pulp, on top a teaspoon of diced tomatoes. Enjoy your meal!

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