Halloween Seafood Ideas

Here's some great Halloween Seafood ideas for the pescatarians in your party. 

Food is a major part of any party and it's good to be able to make something a bit different and also cater for different diets. People are always stuck for fish and seafood halloween ideas - I've had loads of emails asking me, so thought I'd get a few things that might help creative juices flow. 

Once the kids (little and big) have got back from the Trick or Treat, then it's food time.

If the weather's good, then it's ideal to have a barbecue but it's also good to have some other dishes.

Use cauldrons for serving soup or try the neat coffin shaped bread bowls to serve chowder.

What a great idea - fish fingers, home made or shop bought, with a triangle of tomato to make the finger nail. Dip in 'blood' - okay, tomato ketchup!  

Just take some fish fingers and slice up some tomato or red bell pepper for finger nails. 

You could use the salsa recipes for Rubio's Fish Tacos at this link and let people make tacos with their 'fingers'. 

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Yuk! No - it's a shrimp cracker spread from Meaghan at 4SonsRUs.

Is this gross enough for your kids?

She has a super blog featuring all kinds of recipes, crafts and DIY tips. 

Or you could make a batch of smoked salmon dip and serve it in a brain or skull mold. 

Halloween Seafood Ideas - presentation 

It's not always *what* you serve when it comes to themed parties, it's more *how* and the skull, brain, witches cauldron and coffin bread soup bowls give a Halloween theme which is unmistakeable. There are links which take you to Amazon below (I do earn a small commission if you buy through my link, at no extra cost to you) but have a search around the site as there are masses of ideas. You could use these to make jelly for dessert - you can get individual ones and I've seen coffin shaped bread tins which you could use. Have a good mooch around and see what grabs your attention. 

You can buy brain shaped molds from Amazon

or you could use a Skull Mold also from Amazon.

This shrimp recipe from Genius Kitchen is a variation of the shrimp spread. 

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It's one of those things that people will either love or hate! Halloween seafood ideas are not always simple - this looks simple, but will take a while to create. It looks very impressive and I for one, would be very happy with this on the table. 

You could make this as long or short as you like - just shell and dress crabs and then line them up on a platter. 

There's two videos here from Rick Stein showing you how to clean a crab. 

Or of course, you could buy them ready dressed and save yourself a ton of time! 

I manage quite well dressing crabs using a metal skewer and the handle of a teaspoon, but you can buy lobster and crab crackers and picks. You might want to do that if you're serving whole crab to a crowd, so they can use them to pick the meat.

Again, there's a huge range at Amazon which you can get delivered within a few days.

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This is a super easy seafood chowder recipe which cooks in the crockpot or slow cooker. You can leave it there to serve or put it into a Witch's Cauldron (Dutch Oven) and you can serve it in coffin shaped bread bowls.

You use an uncut loaf, cut it into three, trim, hollow out, baste with butter and then bake. They don't go soggy and people can then eat the serving bowl, leaving you with just the spoons to wash - YAY!!

The full instructions are here at Diamonds for Dessert. Sadly, this link no longer works, but I'll describe a method for you of making these coffin bread bowls. 

1. Take an uncut loaf (make it yourself or bought, doesn't matter) and cut it into three or four pieces - depending on the size of the loaf.

2.Trim the corners to make a coffin shape.

3.Then scoop out the centres, leaving a border.

4.Brush melted butter over all the cut surfaces.

5.Place on a baking tray and place in a medium oven (gas mark 5, 375F or 190C) for five to ten minutes, until the sides are golden brown.

Let them cool to regain some rigidity and then they're ready to serve the soup in. It doesn't matter if they're cold as that will give them a bit more stability when the soup goes in. I would only put the soup in directly before you're serving otherwise, it might go soggy and leak.

You can cut out the 'R I P' letters from the bread you've scooped out and bake them alongside the coffin bowls. 

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You could serve any soup you like and add some shrimps on skewers to serve alongside any meat you have on the barbecue - there's a simple recipe here with some ideas for marinades. 

It's very weather dependent (certainly in the UK where I live) on what you can serve as food for Halloween get togethers. You could broil (grill) the shrimp skewers indoors if the weather is not good enough to cook outside. 

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