Hello friends, today I want to show you how we made ceviche at home, we did not have exactly all the ingredients but it turned out well.
Esta es una receta bastante fácil, veamos.
This is a fairly easy recipe, let's see.
We start by chopping the onions in julienne, for this recipe purple onions are used because this is the traditional recipe of Peru, in this case, we had very few so we used a little of the purple ones and more of the white onions.
As you observe, we leave the onions soaking because this prevents that when we add it to our plate it has a bitter taste.
We use 2 pounds of white tuna for this recipe, so that the ceviche looks good it is recommended to use a white meat fish from the sea.
We cut the tuna into cubes and add it to a fairly large container because this will be a lot of ceviche.
We cut a little ginger and some garlic cloves to taste.
Here some type of hot pepper is also added, here we forgot to buy so we do not use it.
Now we are going to squeeze the juice of several lemons, I used 8 medium lemons. I photographed these 3 lemons so you can see the size.
I squeezed it by hand so it looks like this but clearly this is going to strain because we are only interested in lemon juice.
I almost forgot to tell you that this recipe takes a little fresh coriander, unfortunately the day before I had put the coriander in the freezer because it is something we do at home so that it does not get damaged since it is very rare when we use it.
We have everything ready we are going to start preparing, now it is just a matter of mixing the ingredients, this must be done quickly because we want everything fresh.
In the bowl where we have our cut tuna we add the garlic and ginger, also the salt and pepper, mix well.
Now we are going to add the lemon juice, I took the opportunity to strain it here at once. The lemon juice will cook the fish, it is important to mix constantly so that all the fish cooks with the lemon juice.
What are we going to observe here? The meat of the fish when it is raw has a pink color but when it is cooked it turns white, the same process will make the lemon, in general this process does not take long in a couple of minutes it is cooked with 5 minutes and mixing is enough.
Agregamos el cilantro y la cebolla morada.
Add the coriander and the purple onions.
You should only use the coriander leaves, I repeat, I already had my coriander in the freezer and I cut all that and I keep it in a container is because some stems left me in the recipe. The idea is that the coriander looks fresh, add its aroma, if you leave it in the freezer like I do, it will look very strange on the plate.
Finally, we added the white onion to finish completing the dish, as I said we had a little bit of the purple onion.
Now we mix for a little while and look at the color the fish took, that means it is cooked.
And this is how the dish looks, in Peru this dish is accompanied with sweet potato and some snacks.
All the images in this post were made by me, I am the author.