Adam Liaw's tomato spaghetti marinara.

Recipe collection

30 seafood pastas for summer

Pretend you're holidaying on the Amalfi Coast with these pasta dishes that are easy,breezy (add a bit of) lemon squeezy. And if you choose a recipe with shellfish,heed Adam Liaw's tip and remove some molluscs from their shells,so"you're eating a bowl of pasta,not a bowl of shells".

30 recipes
Remove half the mussels from their shells for easy eating.

Adam Liaw's linguine with mussels,capers and cream

  • Adam Liaw
Prawn pasta,heavy on the herbs,with'pretend fancy sauce'and optional zucchini flowers.

Prawn pasta with pretend fancy sauce

  • <30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Perfect summer pasta:Linguine with spanner crab and coriander seeds.
EASY

Neil Perry's spanner crab linguine with crushed coriander seeds

  • <30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Tomato spaghetti marinara.
EASY

Adam Liaw's tomato spaghetti marinara

  • <30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Vary this go-to pasta dish by adding some cherry tomatoes or even a sprinkling of toasted breadcrumbs.
EASY

Linguine with spicy tuna,olives and capers

  • <30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Speedy spaghetti with prawns.
EASY

Spaghetti with prawns and lemon pepper butter

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Prawn spaghetti

King prawn spaghetti with prawn oil

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Spaghetti with spanner crab and pangrattato
EASY

Neil Perry's spaghetti with spanner crab and pangrattato

  • <30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Spaghetti with prawns,clams and chilli.

Spaghetti with prawns,clams and chilli

  • <30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Squid ink pasta with scallops,chilli,tomato and garlic.

Squid-ink pasta with scallops,chilli,tomato and garlic

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Adam Liaw's orecchiette with crab.

Adam Liaw's orecchiette with crab,tomato and chilli

  • Adam Liaw
Angel hair pasta with prawn,pea and lemon sauce.

Angel hair pasta with prawn,pea and lemon sauce

  • <30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Penne with lobster and prosciutto.
EASY

Penne with lobster and proscuitto

  • <30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Midweek mussels:Big bowls of mussels,risoni,peas and bacon.
EASY

Mussels with risoni pasta,peas and bacon recipe

  • <30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Squid ink pasta with vongole,chorizo and roasted prawn oil,and a pear,parmesan and rocket salad on the side.

Chorizo and vongole with squid ink pasta and prawn oil

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
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Seafood all'acqua pazza (cooked in"crazy water").
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura's seafood all'acqua pazza

  • <30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Fennel and orzo risotto with garlic prawns.

Fennel and orzo risotto with garlic prawns

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Spaghetti with prawns,basil and pistachios.
EASY

Spaghetti with prawns,basil and pistachios

  • <30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Spaghetti marinara.

Spaghetti marinara

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Caroline Velik
Spaghetti

Spaghetti with mussels,prawns and chilli

  • <30 mins
  • Neil Perry
This black fideua is so surprising in its fresh sweetness that it will leave your palate a bit confused but wanting to go back for seconds.

Squid ink fideua

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Spaghetti with tuna,pistachio and mint.

Neil Perry’s spaghetti with tuna,pistachio and mint

  • <30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Spaghetti with broad beans and cuttlefish.

Spaghetti with broad beans and calamari

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Spaghetti with blue swimmer crab and prawns.

Spaghetti with blue swimmer crab and prawns

  • <30 mins
  • Brigitte Hafner
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The Blue Ducks'dramatic black pasta dish is flavour-packed.
EASY

Squid ink pasta with swordfish recipe

  • <30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Adam Liaw's squid and thyme linguine.

Linguine with squid,brussels sprouts and thyme

  • <30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Squid ink fettuccine with crab and chilli.

Squid ink fettuccine with crab and chilli

  • <30 mins
  • Frank Camorra
Spaghetti with prawns,anchovy and capers
EASY

Spaghetti with prawns,anchovy and capers

  • <30 mins
  • Maurice Esposito
Adam Liaw's pasta salad:Smoked salmon and cornichons with yoghurt,sour cream and dill.
EASY

Smoked salmon and cornichon pasta salad recipe

  • <30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Seafood risoni with tomato.

Seafood risoni with tomato

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Luke Mangan