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Let's Make Ceviche!

Ceviche is very easy to make.  At best it's an uncomplicated dish of fish and assorted seafood mixed with your choice of compliments all marinated in citrus juice.  Any seafood can be used to make ceviche, just make sure that it's fresh as can be.  
 
Today we're making halibut and shrimp ceviche. :)
 
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Ingredients:
 
1 lb halibut filet
1 lb raw shrimp
1/2 cup onion - diced (1/2 a medium)
1/2 cup tomato - diced (1 small roma)
1 medium jalapeno - diced
1 medium thai pepper - diced
2 tbsp minced fresh cilantro
juice of 6 limes
 
Directions:
 
Skin, bone and dice the fish into roughly half inch pieces.  Peel the shrimp and cut into thirds.  Dice up the tomato, onion and peppers.  Add everything to a stainless or glass bowl and then pour in the lime juice.  Stir to combine and add the cilantro.  Season to taste with salt and a bit of pepper powder it you'd like.  That's it!
 
The fish & shrimp:
 
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Other ingredients:
 
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Juicing the limes! 
 
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All mixed up:
 
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I usually let it sit a couple hours so the seafood cooks and the flavors marry.  Here's the dish plated:
 
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Jeff H said:
 
Ahhh, how nice it would be o work where jedi works. To do vodka shots at work. :dance:
 
We used to close the day with a bottle of beer on Friday, but that was 15 years ago. :mope: The lawyers put a stop to that. 
 
 
Oh, and you killed it S-n-F. I've never had that before, but looks great.
yeah i work at small sushi bar owned by my wife's older sister's husband.  Where do you work? Lawyers?  Did someone get injured while drinking at you job?
 
Nice nice nice! I like my onion to marinate in the lime/marinade the longest so they get pickled, then I throw in throw in the other ingreds.
 
JoynersHotPeppers said:
No tomato but yes on everything else, fresh NC shrimp...best in the damn world!
 
What kind of liquid/pasteurization juice mixture do you aim for? ...
 
Lime only? ... other citrus? ... alcohol? ...
 
I am about to order some groceries (it's raining like a mofo) and I want to make sure I don't miss one of the liquid ingredients ...
 
Thanks!
 
grantmichaels said:
 
What kind of liquid/pasteurization juice mixture do you aim for? ...
 
Lime only? ... other citrus? ... alcohol? ...
 
I am about to order some groceries (it's raining like a mofo) and I want to make sure I don't miss one of the liquid ingredients ...
 
Thanks!
I due a almost pure lime only base with just a squirt of fresh orange at the end after the lime has done its magic. 
Here is an oldie similar to SF did...tomato in this one
 
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I attended a ceviche class taught by Jose del Castillo last summer in D.C. He is the guy in this video above at minute 1:16. I make my ceviche exactly the way he taught in the class, and it comes out perfect every time. Aji Limo, limes, red onion, fish, and salt are the only ingredients you need to make amazing ceviche.

Previously I had expiremented making a bunch of different leche de tigres from recipes of other Peruvian chefs and Peruvian friends. Ever since taking that class last year, I cut out all of the extra stuff, and make it exactly like Jose del Castillo. I do throw in some culantro(recao) when I make it, but other than that, I follow his recipe to a T.

I make leche de tigre sometimes while making ceviche, but I spike it with pisco, and put it in a glass to drink as a spicy/sour cocktail. I don't mix it with my ceviche.
 
JoynersHotPeppers said:
I due a almost pure lime only base with just a squirt of fresh orange at the end after the lime has done its magic. 

Here is an oldie similar to SF did...tomato in this one
 
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Yeah, I got a little tomato for mine too ;)
 
I ordered a bunch of lime, a couple of lemons, a couple of navel oranges, some cilatro (fresh) and paste, purple onions, some bells, some poblanos, and I have the pepper pastes (as well as a pretty full cabinet of pepper powders) ...
 
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