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20 simple seafood pastas for a fancy-ish date night at home

Elevate date night with impressive seafood pasta. From Neil Perry’s luxurious lobster spaghetti to a cheeky (and fishy) take on bolognese, these recipes never fail to impress.

20 recipes
Adam Liaw’s marinara seafood pasta.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s pasta marinara masterclass

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
20-minute crispy barramundi with chilli and tomato butter pasta.
EASY

20-minute crispy barramundi with chilli and tomato butter pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s prawn pasta is bursting with flavour thanks to juicy cherry tomatoes.
EASY

Spicy prawn strozzapreti

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Tomato spaghetti marinara.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s tomato spaghetti marinara

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Stokehouse Pasta and Bar’s rigatoni with prawn and calamari marinara.
EASY

Stokehouse’s rigatoni with prawn and calamari marinara

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jason Staudt

Danielle Alvarez’s prawn and tomato orzotto (pasta risotto)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Crispy salmon and miso carbonara.
EASY

Crispy salmon and miso carbonara

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Linguine with mussels, capers, white wine and cream.

Adam Liaw’s linguine with mussels, capers and cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry’s spaghetti with spanner crab and pangrattato.
EASY

Neil Perry’s spaghetti with spanner crab and pangrattato

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Prawn and chillli linguine,
EASY

Prawn and chilli linguine

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Neil Perry’s spaghetti with prawns, clams and chilli.

Spaghetti with prawns, clams and chilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's lush lobster pasta.
EASY

Neil Perry’s lobster and pancetta spaghetti

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
White fish spaghetti bolognese.

White fish spaghetti bolognese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry’s penne with lobster and prosciutto.
EASY

Neil Perry’s penne with lobster and prosciutto

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
10-minute chilli, prawn and corn pasta.
EASY

Chilli, prawn and corn pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
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Nicoise pasta salad with seared tuna.
EASY

Nicoise pasta with seared tuna steak

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
One-pan prawn saganaki with risoni.
EASY

One-pan saganaki-style prawns with risoni

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
EASY

Sicilian-style pasta with swordfish, cherry tomatoes, mint and pistachios

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Adam Liaw’s king prawn spaghetti with prawn oil.

King prawn spaghetti with prawn oil

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Pantry pasta: Bigoli in salsa.
EASY

Bigoli in salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura