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40 best fish recipes for Good Friday, Easter and beyond

Good Friday means good fish. From whole-roasted John Dory to beetroot-cured ocean trout, we have all the seafood dishes you need for Good Friday this Easter.
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Good Friday is for good fish, and for your Easter feast we have you covered from snacks through to sides of cured salmon and traditional Good Friday white fish recipes to boot.

To start, there’s smoked trout pâté, perhaps, or Jacqui Challinor’s delicious kingfish ceviche with avocado and finger lime. For an Easter showstopper, you could do worse than the impressive of beetroot-cured ocean trout. For some truly autumnal flavours, turn to cooking snapper fillet with mandarin and fennel sauce. Plus, our fancy riff on fish ‘n’ chips with baked barramundi and crispy potatoes is always a winner with a generous squeeze of lemon juice.

Looking for easy fish recipes? Check out Toby Wilson’s fish taco recipe in the video above for a festive Good Friday evening.

Time to go fishin’ – here are our best fish recipes to make (and eat) this Good Friday.

Photo: James Moffatt

Baked barramundi with pepperleaf mayonnaise

A fillet of white fish on a plate with white sauce and potatoes. There is a mint green background.
Photo: Chris Court

Hellenika’s Corfu bianco with John Dory, potato, onions and lemon

Whole fish with sour-orange glaze
Photo: Kara Rosenlund

La Casita’s whole barbecued fish with sour-orange glaze

Photo: John Paul Urizar

Sand whiting with caper and parsley butter

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Pasi Petänen’s potato dumplings with XO trout

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Whole snapper with orange and pistachio sauce

A baked trout on a pink oval platter, garnished with roasted onions
Photo: Alicia Taylor

Coral trout with saffron and Sherry-roasted onions

Sardine toasts with agrodolce
Photo: Chris Chen

Sardine toasts with agrodolce

Photo: William Meppem

Jacqui Challinor’s kingfish ceviche with avocado and finger lime

Kingfish crudo
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Guy Grossi’s kingfish crudo

Photo: Alicia Taylor

Smoked trout pâté

Anchovy and tomato bruschetta

Pinbone’s anchovy and tomato bruschetta

Photo: William Meppem

Beetroot-cured ocean trout with buttermilk and soft herbs

Garfish with sauce chien and habanero
Photo: Mark Roper

Bar Rochford’s garfish with sauce chien and habanero

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Grilled tuna salad with egg, asparagus and anchovy vinaigrette

Poached Murray cod with dill
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Sean Moran’s poached Murray cod with dill

Bodega's fish fingers
Photo: William Meppem

Bodega’s fish fingers

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Flaked trout, blood orange and fennel salad

Baked snapper with pistou
Photo: Mark Roper

Phil Wood’s baked snapper with pistou

Gemfish cooked in vermouth
Photo: Anson Smart

Gemfish in vermouth sauce

Photo: Babiche Martens

Monique Fiso’s grilled fish with herb dressing

Photo: Con Poulos

Giovanni Pilu’s trout with white wine and rosemary

Photo: Anson Smart

Swordfish with agrodolce sauce

Photo: William Meppem

Rainbow trout with almonds, bacon and green beans

Photo: William Meppem

Saint Peter’s cured ocean trout, fennel crème fraîche and brioche toast

Whiting with seaweed butter
Photo: Mark Roper

The Summertown Aristologists’s whiting with seaweed butter

Photo: John Paul Urizar

Ricky & Pinky’s steamed snapper with coriander and ginger

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Baked golden trout with roe

Photo: William Meppem

Barbecued whole fish with lemongrass and lime leaves

John Dory with herb butter
Photo: Mark Roper

John Dory with herb butter

Photo: William Meppem

Smoked ocean trout with beans, peas and mint

Roast snapper with mandarin and fennel sauce
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Roast snapper with mandarin and fennel sauce

Photo: William Meppem

Luca’s steamed trout with seaweed butter

Photo: Mark Roper

Baked fish and clams

Grilled salmon chops with asparagus and lemon relish
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Grilled salmon chops with asparagus and lemon relish

Photo: William Meppem

Slow-cooked ocean trout with peas, and Meyer lemon and fennel salsa

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Snapper with corn salad, burnt butter and shredded nori

Marinated whole snapper baked on potatoes and peppers (Dorada al fondo con patatas)
Photo: William Meppem

Frank Camorra’s dorada al fondo con patatas (marinated whole snapper baked on potatoes and peppers)

Photo: Alicia Taylor

Sugar and fennel-crusted kingfish

Roast ocean trout with cucumber and preserved lemon salad
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Roast ocean trout with cucumber and preserved lemon salad

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