Recipe for
Mock Seafood Platter
Prep Time:
10 minutes
Cook Time:
30 minutes
This seafood platter makes use of economical ingredients such as crab sticks and fish bites to make a platter that's attractive but won't break the bank.
Ingredients
(Serves: family of 5)
125 g box
SPAR
crab sticks, thawed in the fridge
½ a 800 g box frozen, bite-size battered fish eg Smackeroos
2 boxes
SPAR
crumbed calamari rings or prawn tails
500 g Half-mussels, topped with 100 g wedge blue cheese, grated
1 bag
SPAR
Shells, prawn flavoured snacks
1 tub
SPAR
low-fat salmon flavoured cream cheese thinned down slightly
with
SPAR
creamy mayonnaise
1 pack of
SPAR Freshline
mini garlic loaves
2
SPAR Freshline
lemons, quartered
Method
Pre-heat oven to 220ºC. Set the oven shelf one above centre.
Place fish chunks and crumbed calamari rings/prawn tails, spaced apart, on a large baking tray. Bake for 20 minutes. Towards the end of this oven time, place the thawed crabsticks in a colander and pour over boiling water, drain and place alongside the now-baked seafood on the same oven tray, covered with foil and set aside on a hot tray or in a warmer drawer.
Reduce oven to 180º C.
Bake the tray of cheese-topped mussels on the one-above centre shelf, at the same time as the foil-wrapped garlic loaves on the centre oven shelf. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes until the cheese is bubbling and brown.
Meanwhile, arrange the prawn flavoured shell snacks, lemon quarters and the salmon dip on a large serving platter.
Add all the hot baked seafood and opened garlic loaves onto the platter, and serve immediately.
Prep Time:
SPAR Oven chips may be used instead of the Shell crisps, and baked in a separate tray alongside the fish and calamari tray in Step 2.