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11 clawsome recipes from under the sea

Feeling lobstressed? Looking for ways to feel crabulous? Check out these crustaceous creations! With these delicious recipes, it's easy to become a hermit - but don't be shellfish, make and share these recipes now.

Arragosta alla Catalana (rock lobster Catalan style)

Source: Danielle Abou Karam

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Known as Sardinia's gnocchi, malloreddus are a small pasta perfect for soaking up flavour as they do with this fresh crab cooked in a salty lemon butter.
Malloreddus, crab and preserved lemon butter
Source: Danielle Abou Karam

This dish is from the city of Alghero on Sardinia’s North Western coast, where the best rock lobsters (also called ‘spiny lobsters’) are found.
Arragosta alla Catalana (rock lobster Catalan style)
Source: Danielle Abou Karam
A Singaporean specialty, among locals this dish is arguably more popular than the chilli crab that visitors to Singapore love. There are many different variations of this dish – some creamy, some spicy – but Adam Liaw's version keeps it quite simple.
White pepper crab
Source: Danielle Abou Karam
An easy throw-together seafood pasta with a good lug of lobster oil for a decadent shellfish flavour topped with tarragon and chives.
Shellfish spaghetti
Source: Danielle Abou Karam
Yumi Stynes' family used to holiday every year in Robe, South Australia, a town internationally famous for its rock lobsters.This is, in my opinion, the best way to eat crays.
Christmas lobster hand rolls
A bit of wow factor at a dinner party is achievable, even for novices and especially if you get your guests involved. Source: Adam Liaw
Many of the top three-star restaurants all over France served this dish 40 years ago. It’s a great classic French dish to learn and perfect for a special occasion. You can use prawns as an alternative to yabbies.
Yabby bisque (Bisque d’ecrevisses)
Yabby bisque (Bisque d’ecrevisses) Source: Taste le Tour with Gabriel Gaté
Yotam Ottolenghi says he spent many hours on a fishing boat yearning for a single silly lobster to walk into their nets before crafting this salad recipe. "Without it, the whole scene, and a whole precious day, would be caput. Seriously, I was very close to complete desperation when a lobster finally arrived on the boat, to be followed shortly by another beautiful specimen. I was beside myself with excitement and looked like a bit of fool to my fellow fishermen, I’m sure of it."
Lobster, fennela and grape salad
Source: SBS Food
Korokke can be found in street stalls, handed to you in a paper wrapper, crisp and piping hot. It’s a treat in the cold weather, when customers huddle on the footpath outside the stall while they savour their crunchy (or carb-y) warmth.
Crab croquettes (kanikorokke)
Source: Alana Dimou
This is a cooking-from-scratch recipe: you’ll make a fresh curry paste, cook a whole crab, and – optional, but recommended – make fresh naan to soak it all up.
Crab curry
Crab curry Source: Asia Unplated with Diana Chan
The chilli-spiked sauce is the perfect match with crisp-battered crab.
Soft shell crab with ribbon salad
Source: New Holland
The best way to cook your yabby according to chef Peter Gilmore is boiled in salted water for three minutes. And this recipe sees after-school pikelets all grown-up.
Yabbies with buckwheat pickletes
Yabbies with buckwheat pickletes Source: Food Safari Water

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Published 20 July 2021 2:14pm
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