World Food Champion reveals the easiest kind of seafood to cook, and the one type of fish you should avoid
Cooking seafood can be a daunting task, with many Aussies choosing to leave it to the professionals.
But ordering seafood when eating out can cause your bill to skyrocket, so it might be time we start learning to cook it at home.
Thankfully, chef and World Food Champion, John McFadden, has shared his top seafood cooking tips – including the easiest dish to tackle.
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John McFadden took out the 2022 title of World Food Champion. Supplied
"I like cooking with scallops because it's fast," McFadden tells 9honey Kitchen.
"The thing is, with seafood, it's delicate. So, you know, you've got to understand your cooking temperatures and times, you know, you get it right.
"You know, you let the seafood do what it does best, and that's just shine because the quality that we have here, it's first class."
He says that scallops are the easiest type of seafood to cook. Getty
In 2022, McFadden was the overall winner at the World Food Championship, often regarded as one of the most intense food competitions in the world.
He also took out the crown in the seafood category in both 2022 and 2023.
He explains that if you're working on a budget, a whole fish is the best way to go.
"Whole fish on the bone is always quite affordable because, you know, with filleted fish you're paying for that labour and the full weight of the fish, where anything whole works really well," he shared, adding that mussels also work well on a budget.
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If you're working on a budget, McFadden says to go for a whole fish. Getty
However, despite advocating for a cheap meal, McFadden says that there is one budget swap we should avoid.
"Without a doubt fresh fish cooks up a lot better than frozen fish," he says.
"You don't lose all that moisture content and you still have those natural flavours.
"When something's been thawed, there's a lot of water lost in the protein, and that can tend to come out and dry out the protein when it goes to cook."
If you want to catch McFadden in action, you can see him cook some of his award winning seafood dishes at the Home Cooking Show in Sydney this month.
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