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Shrimp & whitefish ceviche with saffron and epazote.
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Next time you make it, get some tortilla chips and dip it like salsa. It's the best way to consume.
For TexMex that's fine, but for good ceviche or tiradito, I prefer it plain. Same principle with sashimi, but there's even more interesting flavors going on, such as the key lime juice, cilantro, sliced red onions, and aji limos (or similar).
The key concept I'd say is that everything harmonizes in to an ultra 'fresh, bright' taste.
Tell me you at least put some Valentino's on top!
That to me illustrates pretty nicely that "ceviche" can range anywhere from appetizer / TexMex - level snack food all the way to fine-dining level food. Like I say, I've been lucky enough to eat some of the very best.
Yeah, I subscribe to the "maker it your own" philosophy.
And I'll be dead ass with ya, I have never made traditional ceviche. I bought 2 red onions today, and will only be using 1& 1/2 for the chili. Can you hook a homie up with a good receipt? (The picture only has sweet onions.)
Word, I gotcha.
I started typing up a recipe, and it quickly turned in to an article. Let me get back to you...
(haha, you'll understand when you read it)
Hey sorry for coming back months later, but I am super curious about that article. I got some cheap salmon flanks I'm looking to experiment with.
No probs. I think I already shared some of that article somewhere, but I did some more work on it, which is here:
MARINADE: Prepare it in advance. For general purposes, that would involve squeezing a bunch of (key) limes (and maybe a lemon or two, to taste) into a good-sized container, then adding thinly-sliced red onions and thinly-sliced fresh peppers, as hot as you can stand. For me that's habaneros, for someone else that might be jalapeños, for someone else it might ghost peppers.
SELECTING YOUR SEAFOOD. With many ceviches, a whitefish is used so as to create more of a low-key, uniform taste, but with many others, the sky's the limit.
FOOD SAFETY. Wild animals tend to be riddled with parasites, which is part of the reason why fires and cooking were such a major advancement for sapiens. The fact that we could cook / sanitize the animal flesh that we ate, plus make the veggies we ate safer to eat. Likewise with ceviche, it's important to find seafood that's first been deep-freezed, before selling. That's actually just standard practice for grocery stores, even if consumers never had a clue. But try to verify that with your seller, whenever possible.
DISCLAIMER: The method above worked for me, but I'm not a long-time ceviche chef. I'm just someone from a certain area where good ceviche is appreciated. Therefore, I'd recommend looking over at least a couple other detailed ceviche recipes, comparing notes so as to understand all the possibilities.
Bruh, thank you so much!