With the weather heating up and an abundance of fresh seafood on offer, it’s high time for a feast. An Aussie summer just isn’t complete without just-cooked prawns, calamari, salmon and fish, whether they’re battered and fried, grilled or marinated. Here, the Gourmet Traveller food team has compiled a range of summer-perfect seafood dishes to suit everyone from calamari and green mango salad to herbed ocean trout en croûte.

Chermoula flathead with eggplant and tahini yoghurt

Barbecued calamari with chickpeas and preserved lemon (Calamares asado)

Barbecued snapper in banana leaves with sambal belacan

Soy-glazed barbecued prawns with cabbage and daikon salad and chilled soba

Spaghetti con pesce d’acqua dolce (spaghetti with freshwater fish)

Shredded snapper, lime, coriander and avocado flatbread

Soft prawn tacos with coleslaw, avocado and coriander

Mulloway crudo with shaved fennel, pickled shallots and lemon
