Haddock and shrimp ceviche

Originally posted by me in MyWholeFoodsLife Facebook group on March 3, 2015

Ingredients:

• 10 limes juiced.  (Note bottled key lime juice is a simple substitute method for this)
• 1 red onion finely sliced
• 1 lb haddock diced
• 1/2 lb fresh shrimp de shelled and deveined and diced roughly if large shrimp.

 

Instructions: 

• Run boiling water over the cleaned shrimp. If you add octopus or squid do the same to them as well 
• Put all in casserole dish and let sit 4 hours 'cooking' the fish in line juice.
• Add pepper flakes to taste level just prior to eating. I personally use 2teaspoons of  Habanero, siracha, or ghost pepper purée I have premade.

 

Alternate seafood's that can be used or added:

• Any white firm fish is usually a good substitute (tilapia as example)
• ceviche mixto refers to using everything from mussels, octopus, squid, and other seafood.   I prefer the small octopus legs in mine, and squid cut up in fine ribbons.

Sides that are very Peruvian that you might see in restaurants:

• Cooked Sweet potato
• Fries
• Peruvian corn (Choclo -- boiled or fried hard to be like beer nuts)

Large multi-day cookout for more than 7 people

I had family over for the past week and during the week the following simple recipes were used to feed the 7 people that were here.  I also ended up with plenty of leftovers.

So first day was a massive BBQ where we made:

• Bratwurst (package of 12)
• Chicken Thighs in The spicy BBQ Rub from this post:   http://drummingupabettermeal.blogspot.com/2015/07/bbq-spice-blends-i-love.html
• 1 2 lb slab of Ribs boiled for 20 minutes first then finished on the grill after being coated liberally in the Smokey BBQ rub from this post:  http://drummingupabettermeal.blogspot.com/2015/07/bbq-spice-blends-i-love.html
• 5 lb Beef Heart (Peruvian Anticuchos) cubed then marinated for a couple hours in:
• Red Wine Vinegar
• annatto seeds ground
• Garlic paste (made from putting garlic cloves in food processor)
• ground cumin

So A couple days later we made - Ceviche:
I took and modified this recipe (http://drummingupabettermeal.blogspot.com/2015/06/haddock-and-shrimp-ceviche.html) to make a ceviche for everyone to enjoy: 

• 6 Tilapia instead of the haddock and shrimp. 
• One smaller batch included some heat for flavor replacing the lighter tasting pepper flakes
• 1 whole habanero, diced as small as possible.  Flesh only no seeds
• A healthy dash or two of Aji Amarillo

A couple of sides for these meals were:

• Cauliflower - quick boil
• Sweet potatoes - boiled
• brussel sprouts
• rice

Breakfasts made out of the leftovers:

• Quick hash from small diced potatoes fried on stove with thinly sliced beef heart pieces, chicken thighs, and/or sausage leftovers
• Scrambled Eggs + pieces of heart or sausage quickly warmed up on stove
• Boiled eggs + leftovers

Desserts:

• Rice Pudding (http://drummingupabettermeal.blogspot.com/2015/07/rice-pudding.html)