20+ Sauces for Seafood

Looking for a great way to step up all types of seafood? These Sauces for Seafood are made with the freshest ingredients to take your dinner to the next level.

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Whether dipping crab legs into a buttery sauce, dunking fish sticks into a delightful dipping sauce or enjoying one of your favorite seafood dishes at a seafood restaurant, these seafood sauce recipes are the best.

If you know me, you know I am the queen of delicious sauces. Easy sauce recipes are some of my favorite ways to take seafood recipes to the next level. Drizzling a spicy sauce on top of my fish tacos or dipping king crab legs into a garlic butter sauce are a couple of my favorites.

While each of these seafood sauces is different in their own way, here is a list of a few items that are nice to have on hand when making homemade sauces in general.

  • lemon juice
  • red pepper flakes
  • hot sauce
  • old bay seasoning
  • olive oil
  • worcestershire sauce
  • black pepper
  • white wine
  • chili powder
  • lemon pepper
  • garlic powder
  • soy sauce
  • brown sugar
  • minced garlic
  • fresh herbs
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Crab Cake Sauce Recipe

Look no further for this sauce to serve with crab cakes. It is light, flavorful and the perfect addition to any seafood dish for dipping or drizzling.
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Cilantro Sauce Recipe

Cilantro sauce is a quick and easy recipe that will brighten tacos and fajitas as well as any protein you're serving. Use it as a dip, too!
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Savory Seafood Sauce Recipe

This take on the viral Bloves Sauce is a savory seafood sauce that you can use on all sorts of protein and vegetables!
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Peri Peri Sauce Recipe

Get ready to be wowed by this chile-based Peri Peri Sauce recipe that can elevate nearly anything that's savory on your plate!
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Honey Garlic Sauce

If you want a sweet and savory sauce for your proteins and vegetables, this EASY Honey Garlic Sauce recipe is the sauce for you!
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Coconut Shrimp Dipping Sauce

If you like both heat and sweet, this Coconut Shrimp Dipping Sauce that coats your crunchy fried shrimp is what you're looking for!
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Shrimp Scampi Sauce

Shrimp Scampi Sauce is a luscious garlic butter sauce with the addition of crisp white wine that's perfect with pasta, proteins, and bread!
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Boiling Crab Sauce

A signature sauce at the Boiling Crab Restaurants, this EASY copycat Boiling Crab Sauce recipe is perfect for any seafood you want to add it!
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Crab Butter (Drawn Butter)

This EASY Crab Butter is a simple drawn butter mixed with bright lemon zest and slightly spicy seafood seasoning. Perfect for dipping crab!
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Ginger Sauce Recipe

If you're looking for a savory sauce for proteins and vegetables this EASY Ginger Sauce recipe is the way to upgrade nearly any meal!
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Beer BBQ Sauce Recipe

Looking for an EASY Beer BBQ Sauce to pair with your favorite brews at your next cookout? Look no further than this delicious sauce recipe!
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TGI Friday’s Whiskey Glaze

Formerly known as TGI Fridays Jack Daniel's Sauce, this Whiskey Glaze is perfect for serving with meats, sandwiches or for dipping!
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Cocktail Sauce Recipe

With only 7 ingredients, you can have the BEST homemade Cocktail Sauce Recipe ready in only 5 minutes! Perfect for shrimp and seafood!
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Teriyaki Sauce Recipe

Whether used as a marinade, dipping sauce or even a glaze, this homemade Teriyaki Sauce recipe is full of flavor and perfectly sweet!
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Tartar Sauce Recipe

With only a handful of ingredients, you can have the BEST homemade Tartar Sauce recipe ready in only 10 minutes! It's so easy to make!
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Thai Sweet Chili Sauce Recipe

A sweet and spicy Asian condiment perfect for dipping, marinating, basting or whisking into sauces, soups and salad dressing.
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Spicy Aioli Recipe

With only 4 simple ingredients, this homemade Spicy Aioli recipe will make you rethink mayonnaise. An EASY way to upgrade any sandwich!
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Homemade Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe

Sweet and Sour Sauce is an amazing dipping sauce. This EASY recipe will make you think it came from your local Chinese takeout!
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Homemade Tzatziki Sauce Recipe

If you're looking for a bright, creamy sauce to use as a healthy dip or part of a meal, this homemade Tzatziki Sauce recipe is it!
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Storage

While each delicious seafood sauce recipe will have a different method of storage, most of them will stay good in the refrigerator for up to five days in an airtight container. But check each individual recipe to make sure.

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Jessica is a cookbook author and Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School certified recipe developer. See her work in Parade Magazine, Better Homes & GardensMashed, AllRecipes AllStars and The Daily Meal Food + Travel and more!

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