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Name: Mexican ceviche
Prep time: 3 h 9 min
Total time: 3 h 9 min
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: french
Ingredients: 1 avocado; 2 tomatoes; 2 limes; ½ lime; 1 onion; 1 bunch coriander; 200 g fish fillet; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 tablespoon vinegar; salt; pepper; 5 drops Tabasco

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Mexican ceviche

Ceviche is typical of South American cuisine, made with avocados, tomatoes and fish fillet cured in lime juice. This is a personal version of Mexican-style ceviche.

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Last modified on: October 13^th 2010

For 4 people, you will need:

1 1 avocado
2 2 tomatoes
3 2 limes
4 ½ lime
5 1 onion
6 1 bunch coriander
7 200 g fish fillet
8 2 tablespoons olive oil
9 2 tablespoons olive oil
10 1 tablespoon vinegar
11 salt
12 pepper
13 5 drops Tabasco
Total weight: 1,125 grams

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Fulfillment

Preparation	Resting	Start to finish
1 hour 9 min.	2 hours	3 hours 9 min.

Preservation:

Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 15 min.

Shred 200 g fish fillet, using a fork like in this short video.

Stage 2

Do this for all the fish.

Stage 3 - 2 hours

Put the fish in a bowl and pour over it juice of 2 limes, salt and pepper.

Cover with plastic film and put in the fridge for at least 2 hours.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

After this time, put the fish in a strainer and leave to drain. Discard lime juice that drains off.

Stage 5 - 10 min.

Peel 1 avocado, cut into small pieces, put in a bowl with juice of ½ lime, salt, pepper, 5 drops Tabasco and 2 tablespoons olive oil.

Crush roughly with a fork.

Stage 6 - 20 min.

Peel tomatoes, cut into small dice. Salt and leave to drain in a strainer.

Peel, wash and chop onion.

Stage 7 - 2 min.

In a bowl put the drained tomato dice, chopped onion and 1 bunch coriander chopped.

Stage 8 - 2 min.

Add 1 tablespoon vinegar and 2 tablespoons olive oil, mix well. Check seasoning.

Stage 9

Put a ring in the centre of the serving plate, and put a layer of avocado in the bottom.

Stage 10

Then add a layer of fish.

Stage 11

Finish with a layer of tomatoes.

Refrigerate until serving.

Stage 12 - 15 min.

Remove the ring just a few minutes before serving.

Stage 13

If you don't have a ring, you can use achieve a pleasing result by arranging in a glass.

Remarks

If you don't have coriander, use chives or parsley instead.

By all means make smaller tomato dice than in the photo, your ceviche will be better and more attractive.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 3.87 €
Per person : 0.97 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

After Fred Chesneau.

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	Tomato: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Greek salad, Crab and smoked salmon club sandwiches , Italian style gratin, Tomato and courgette tart, Tomato meat balls, ... All
	Lime: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Surprise bread, Mixed salad stack, Guacamole, Fruit salad, Verrine of avocado mousse and crab, ... All

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Your 1 comments or questions on this recipe

Hello, during holidays in Peru I try ceviche with small pieces (cubes) of fish, delicious too.
Posted by Alfonso september 15^th 2008 at 19:49 (n° 1)

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