Seafood recipes that don't need a fishmonger

Seafood is the section of the shop most people walk past, and the reason is almost never taste. It is that fish feels unforgiving — expensive, easy to overcook, and hard to judge without standing at a counter asking someone what came in today.

These lean the other way. The fillets are the ones every supermarket stocks, the cooking windows are short enough that the difference between right and overdone is minutes rather than seconds, and where a recipe genuinely needs a specific fish it says so instead of pretending any white fish will do.

Fish is also the fastest protein in the shop. A good half of what is below is on the table in under half an hour, which is the argument for it on a weeknight.

Our pick

Avocado Boats With Creamy Dill Tuna Salad

Hard to get wrong, and it makes the case for cooking fish on a weeknight better than any argument.

15 min · American · pescatarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, keto, low-carb, high-protein

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