Do you want to replace the seafood in your diet with vegan alternatives? You may be able to find substitutes in your local grocery stores or online stores. And you can also use different ingredients to replicate flavors, textures, and tastes right at home.
Start Here
- How to Make Vegan Seafood Dishes Without the Fish
If you have been missing seafood, you can have those tastes back again and leave the fish in the sea where they belong. Here are 4 tips on how to have those flavors of the sea without the fish.
Source: One Green Planet
- Homemade Vegan Sushi Recipes
Learn how to make vegan sushi at home. These vegan sushi recipes will have you making this awesome treat quickly and easily.
Source: Veggies Don’t Bite
Vegan Seafood Recipes
- Vegan Seafood Recipes
More than one hundred vegan seafood recipes to satisfy your taste buds broken into categories like caviar, clams and scallops, crab, fish fillets, lobster, salmon, shrimp, sushi, tuna and more.
Source: Fish Feel
- Vegan Fish and Seafood Recipes
This collection is full of the great vegan fish and seafood recipes. From Vegan Lobster Rolls and Vegan Tuna Sandwiches to Vegan Fish n Chips and vegan seafood recipes, you’re sure to find a recipe that you’ll love.
Source: Veggie Desserts
Vegan Seafood Substitution Guide
We compiled this list of some common vegan seafood substitutions.
| Clams | Mushrooms (King oyster, White button, Shiitake, or Cremini), Seitan, Soy curls |
| Crab | Hearts of palm, Jackfruit |
| Crab cakes | Artichoke hearts, Chickpeas, Hearts of palm, Jackfruit, Tempeh, Tofu (Firm or Extra firm, crumbled) |
| Fish | Eggplant, Seitan |
| Fish and Chips, Fish Fillets, Fish Sticks |
Banana blossoms, Jackfruit, Tempeh, Tofu (Firm or Extra firm) |
| Lobster | Hearts of palm, Mushrooms (Lobster or Oyster), Tofu (Firm or Extra firm) |
| Lox / Smoked Salmon | Bell peppers, Carrots, Tomatoes (peeled and the seeds removed) |
| Octopus | Hearts of palm, Mushrooms (King oyster, Shiitake, Dried Shiitake – reconstituted and water squeezed out) |
| Oysters | Eggplant, King oyster mushrooms |
| Scallops | Eggplant, Hearts of palm, King oyster mushroom stems, Seitan, Tofu (Extra firm), Turnips |
| Shrimp | Artichoke hearts, Hearts of palm, Jackfruit, Mushrooms (King oyster, Oyster, Shiitake), Seitan, Sweet potatoes and flour, Tofu (Extra firm) |
| Squid / Calamari | Hearts of palm, Mushroom stems (King oyster, King trumpet), Seitan, Soy curls, Tofu skins (aka Yuba) |
| Sushi Fillings | Asparagus, Avocado, Beets, Carrots, Chickpeas (mashed), Cucumbers, Eggplant (cooked – plain or marinated), Fried tempura-style vegetables, Green onions, Jackfruit, Lettuce, Mango, Mushrooms (sautéed – plain or marinated in soy sauce/Tamari), Peppers, Pickled vegetables, Purple cabbage, Radish, Spinach – baby, Sprouts, Sweet potatoes, Tempeh, Tofu (sautéed – Firm or Extra Firm), Tomatoes |
| Tuna | Tomatoes (peeled and the seeds removed), Watermelon |
| Tuna salad | Chickpeas, Jackfruit, Seitan, Tempeh, Tofu (Firm) |
Related VegResources Guides
Guide Updated February 1, 2021