
Liven Up Fish and Seafood with These Sauces and Condiments
Fish and seafood don't always have to be served with the traditional accompaniments of lemon wedges, dill sauce or cocktail sauce. Although these options are tried and true and still make fish and seafood delicious, there are plenty of other sauces and condiments that will liven up your dishes and add a flavor boost that is both unique and exciting for the palate. Try something new, change things up and enjoy a different flavor experience with our top favorite sauces and condiments for fish and seafood.
1. Sweet Chili Orange Sesame Sauce
Our Sweet Chili Orange Sesame Sauce is a fantastic marinade or glaze for broiled salmon and is a delicious dipping sauce for coconut shrimp and crumbed fish. Toss sweet chili sauce with fried calamari or serve over crab cakes. It also can be warmed up on the stove top and served over crispy pan fried tilapia or cod (dust fish in a little flour and cook in a hot oiled pan, once golden on each side, pour your warm sweet chili sauce onto your fish, let simmer for a minute or so in the pan, remove and garnish with fresh cilantro, green onions and a squeeze of fresh lime). So good!
Pictured Below: Sweet Chili Salmon Bowls with Avocado Cilantro Lime Sauce
2. North African Chermoula Sauce
Chermoula is a bold lemon-y Moroccan marinade or spice blend that is traditionally used for fish and seafood. It's made with preserved lemon, fresh cilantro and is packed full of spices including coriander, cumin, paprika, ginger and saffron. It's a classic marinade for Moroccan fish tagines with potatoes, tomatoes and olives and is delicious over pan fried white fish such as mahi mahi or halibut.
Pictured Below: Pan Fried Halibut with Chermoula Butter Sauce
3. Kiwi Lime Salsa Verde
This salsa is fresh, tangy and vibrant, the kiwi does not make it sweet (in case you are wondering) and it's full of fresh lime, cilantro and smoky charred jalapenos! Salsa Verde is the salsa to use on all your Mexican inspired fish and shrimp tacos. From Baja style beer battered fried fish tacos to simple grilled fish tacos, it adds a spicy fresh kick. It's also delicious served with fried calamari.
Pictured Below: Grilled Fish Tacos with Kiwi Lime Salsa Verde
4. Thai Orange and Ginger Relish
Thai Orange and Ginger Relish is a spicy tangy relish made with fresh orange and citrus, Thai curry spices, pickled carrot, ginger and cilantro. We like to serve it with a white fish "en papillotte" style, which simply means wrapped in parchment paper or foil and baked in the oven. It's healthy, clean, low calorie and delicious. You can also add this relish to a fish curry with coconut milk or use as a condiment for shrimp tacos.
Pictured Below: Thai Orange Ginger Baked Cod In Foil
5. Bruschetta Caponata Relish
Bruschetta Caponata is a Sicilian eggplant tomato relish with green olives, capers and garlic. It's wonderful served over roasted white fish with olive oil and fresh chopped oregano. It also can be used as a pasta sauce for a fish or seafood linguine. Simply toss your cooked linguine with butter, fresh herbs, olive oil and a little salt and pepper, add your choice of seafood or cooked fish (clams, shrimp or fish), top with caponata relish and shaved parmesan. Voila!
Pictured Below: Grilled Tuna Caponata Linguine Pasta
6. Ginger Soy Sauce
Our Ginger Soy Sauce has a nice balance of sweet and citrus with tamari, rice wine vinegar, fresh ginger and garlic and makes a mouthwatering sticky sweet Asian glaze for salmon, white fish and tuna. You can also add this sauce to sesame seared scallops for a ginger soy glaze or use it as a "ponzu style" dipping sauce for shrimp dumplings, potstickers and sushi.
Pictured Below: Ginger Soy Salmon Recipe
7. Mango Chutney
Mango Chutney with it's fruity, gingery and spicy flavor profile is a fun delicious way to jazz up fish and seafood. You can use it like a salsa and spoon it over grilled fish for a light summer meal or you can use it as a finishing sauce by adding it to your fish in the last few minutes of cooking in the oven (just until it's bubbly and a little sticky). Adding a few fresh ingredients to your mango chutney, like fresh mint or cilantro and a squeeze of lime really livens it up when using it like a salsa especially for fish tacos! We also love it with baked curry spiced salmon and as a dipping sauce for coconut shrimp.
Pictured Below: Coconut Shrimp with Mango Chutney Dipping Sauce
8. Japanese Sesame Miso Sauce
Our Japanese Sesame Miso Sauce is made with dashi, toasty sesame, tahini, miso and mirin and it makes a delicious Japanese style glazing marinade for cod, mahi mahi, salmon and halibut. It's also fantastic as a Japanese sesame dressing over tuna poke bowls.
Pictured Below: Broiled Cod with Japanese Sesame Miso Sauce
9. Vietnamese Mint Lime and Chili Sauce
This Vietnamese "nuoc cham" style sauce is a bright sweet tangy sauce with medium chili heat. It's made with fresh sweetened lime, chili, fresh mint, garlic, sesame seeds, rice wine vinegar and fish sauce. It's traditionally used as a dipping sauce for savory Vietnamese pancakes and fried fish and makes a zippy sweet and spicy dipping sauce for shrimp, rice paper rolls, spring rolls and shrimp dumplings. Use it as a dressing for an Asian shrimp and noodle salad.
Pictured Below: Shrimp Rice Paper Rolls with Vietnamese Mint Chili Lime Nuoc Cham Sauce
10. Jamaican Jerk Pineapple Chutney
Liven up all your island style fish and seafood recipes with our Jamaican Jerk Pineapple Chutney. Made with grilled pineapple, fresh lime, aromatic jerk spices and chili, this chutney adds a flavor pop to Jamaican jerk pan fried fish, blacked fish tacos and shrimp and rice dishes. Add some fresh mint, lime and cucumber to this chutney for a pineapple style salsa perfect for swordfish.
Pictured Below: Grilled Swordfish with Jamaican Pineapple Chutney Salsa and Tequila Lime Crema