Explore cookbooks and recipe guides from WorldFish and partners that show how fish and other aquatic foods support healthy diets, food traditions and community wellbeing.

Across coastal and inland communities, fish and other aquatic foods are part of everyday life. They provide essential nutrients, support livelihoods and carry food traditions shaped by place, season, family and culture.

WorldFish works with partners to strengthen aquatic food systems through science, innovation and evidence. But the value of aquatic foods is also seen in kitchens, markets, schools and homes, where people prepare meals using the ingredients available to them.

This collection brings together cookbooks and recipe guides developed through WorldFish research and partnerships in Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands, Malawi and Myanmar. Each publication reflects a different context, but they share a common purpose: helping communities use aquatic foods in practical, nutritious and culturally relevant ways.

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Fish for Improving Nutrition Cookbook
Timor Leste

Developed through the Partnership for Aquaculture Development in Timor-Leste Phase 2, this cookbook features tilapia recipes designed for households, school meal programs, hospitals and other public facilities. It includes practical guidance on nutrition, hygiene and food safety, with recipes that use locally available ingredients.

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Solomon Islands Cookbook: Traditional Recipes Using Local Ingredients from the Land and Sea
Solomon Islands

This cookbook celebrates traditional foods and preparation methods from across Solomon Islands. It brings together recipes shared by women from different communities, highlighting ingredients from land and sea and the role of aquatic foods in nourishing island diets.

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Fish Based Recipes
Malawi

This recipe guide focuses on the use of small fish species in meals for pregnant and lactating women, infants and young children. Developed by the Malawi Government, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources and WorldFish partners, it offers practical recipes that support maternal and child nutrition.

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Happy Fish Cookbook
Myanmar

This cookbook features child-friendly family recipes using dried small fish powder. The recipes were designed to be easy to prepare, locally appropriate and rich in protein, iron and other nutrients important for pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children.

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From Research to Recipes

These cookbooks show the practical side of aquatic food systems. They connect research and partnerships with the meals people prepare, share and adapt in daily life.

They also show that aquatic foods are not only produced, harvested or sold. They are part of the food knowledge families and communities pass on through everyday cooking.