Seafood Dip Recipes

Whether you're snacking for one or feeding a crowd, Food & Wine has incredible seafood dip recipes for every appetite. Check out our short list of recipes which include creamy spinach-and-shrimp dip, warm piquillo and crab dip, smoked trout dip with a sweet onion vinaigrette and more.

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Deviled Crab Dip 

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Make this creamy crab dip from chef Joe Kindred in a large baking dish for a crowd, or divide into 6-ounce ramekins for individual servings.

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Smoked Trout Dip with Sweet Onion Vinaigrette

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This outstanding version of the Midwestern classic smoked fish dip gets extra flavor from the sweet onion vinaigrette that's drizzled on top.

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New England-Style Crab Dip with Brown-Butter Crumbs

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Boston chef Matt Jennings tops this simple, crab-packed dip with supercrispy brown-butter breadcrumbs.

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Creamy Spinach-and-Shrimp Dip

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This is a variation on a cocktail-party classic.

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Warm Piquillo and Crab Dip

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For this classic tapa, Jose Garces stuffs his delicious crab salad into individual piquillo peppers and roasts them until hot.

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Lump Crab Salsa

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Most crab dips are full of mayonnaise, but Michael Symon's lighter version is more like a salsa since it's prepared without mayo and laced with flecks of shallot, cilantro, jalapeno and red bell pepper. "Although I love mayo," he says, "I'm not a fan of it with crab, since it tends to muddle the flavor. If I'm spending big bucks on crab, I want it to be the star."

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Coconut-Crab Cocktail

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When FoodNation takes Bobby Flay to San Francisco, he gorges on Dungeness crab. Here he combines morsels of sweet crab with Asian flavors--lush coconut milk, piquant lime juice and aromatic cilantro--then serves it with salty chips.

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Seafood Dip Recipes

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Deviled Crab Dip

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Smoked Trout Dip with Sweet Onion Vinaigrette

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New England-Style Crab Dip with Brown-Butter Crumbs

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