There is no great thing to flex than the cooking and serving styles in front of your guests. Whenever we go out, the most thing that attracts us is their food presentation and serving etiquette. The way they set up the plates and their dishes pave the way for their success. Nowadays, seafood is makings its name all over the world. Serving a platter of seafood is the social norm of all of us. Serving a seafood platter when you have guests around is the best thing you can do right now. But, before you jump on that, know that setting the right plate of seafood is not an easy task. You have to fill the dish in such a way that helps you not make it look messy. It will not be wrong to say that preparing a seafood platter will need some strategies and appropriate techniques. Today we are jotting down a recipe that can help you set the best kind of seafood platter for your gatherings. So, grab all the seafood from the fish fridges and get it ready with us now.
Recipe Name: Seafood platter
Cook time: 25 minutes
Prep time: 30 minutes
Total time: 55 minutes
Yields: 6 persons
Ingredients:
One cup of extra virgin olive oil
Two cloves of garlic cloves (chopped)
Two tbsp. of basil (chopped)
Two lemons (juice)
four swimmer crabs (half, claws cracked)
four small whole lobsters (cut in half, cleaned)
ten green prawns (peeled, tails intact)
250g clams
Ten scallops in the half shell
Two tbsp. parsley (chopped)
For avocado cream
Two avocados (ripe, peeled, stoned, and chopped)
Half cup of cream (thickened)
One clove of garlic (chopped)
One lime (juice)
For seafood sauce
200ml of mayonnaise
One lime (juice, zest grated)
One tbsp. of chili sauce
One tbsp. of tomato sauce
Instructions:
At first, to make avocado cream, you need a food processor. Take a blender or food processor and add ingredients to it. After blending all the items, you need to make sure you season them with a pinch of salt and black pepper.
Now is time to make the seafood sauce. Take a bowl and add mayonnaise, lime juice, chili sauce, and tomato sauce to it. Whisk all the ingredients together and season it with black pepper and salt.
Now take a small bowl and add oil, garlic, basil, lemon juice, and zest. Mix all of the ingredients. Now take your seafood and marinate them with the prepared seasoning.
After that, put a barbecue hotplate on medium to high heat. Heat a barbecue hotplate to medium-high.
After heating the hotplate, you can cook lobsters and crabs on it. Make sure you cook them for the whole two minutes. Now, add scallops in them. Cook them for three to four minutes, and after that, transfer them on the seafood platter. Sprinkle the seafood with parsley and pour the sauces. Make sure you pour seafood sauce and avocado cream on top of your platter.