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Best Ever Shrimp Ceviche Recipe
Best ever Shrimp Ceviche Recipe with raw or cooked shrimp that is cool, zesty and refreshing. Dip into shrimp ceviche with tortilla chips, spread on a tostada or add to tacos.
Prep
15 min
Cook
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Total
1h 30m
Serves
8
Instructions
- 01
If using frozen shrimp, add it to a medium bowl and cover with warm tap water. Let thaw for 10 minutes.
- 02
In the meanwhile, squeeze juice from limes and add to a large bowl. Please do not use bottled juice.
- 03
Drain shrimp and give it a gentle squeeze. Dice it and add to the bowl with lime juice.
- 04
Marinate cooked shrimp for 15 minutes; raw shrimp for 1.5 hours or until opaque and pink. Acid will "cook" the shrimp.
- 05
While shrimp is marinating, dice tomato, avocado, red onion, cilantro and jalapeno and add to another bowl. Refrigerate if making ceviche with raw shrimp. I also recommend to dice avocado right before combining shrimp with veggies to avoid brown avocado.
- 06
Add vegetables to the bowl with shrimp, stir and add salt and pepper to taste. Remember tortilla chips are salty. So I would salt after the taste test with a chip.
- 07
Serve cold with chips, on a tostada and even in tacos.
Nutrition
per serving · 1 serving
- Calories
- 110
- Protein
- 12g
- Carbs
- 6g
- Fat
- 5g
- Fiber
- 2g
- Sugar
- 1g
- Sat. fat
- 1g
- Sodium
- 444mg
- Cholesterol
- 143mg
Variations & swaps
Variations
- The beauty of any ceviche recipe is that you can make it your own by adding seafood, vegetables and even fruit up to your tastes. Of course, it would not be an authentic ceviche but I am sure it will taste good either way.
- Cooked shrimp: If you are not “brave” enough to make raw shrimp ceviche, make cooked shrimp ceviche. I was the same until I saw how perfectly lime juice cooks the shrimp. It was pink after sitting in acid for 1.5 hours! Many will say ceviche with cooked shrimp is not authentic ceviche but that’s OK. Marinate cooked shrimp in lime juice for only 15 minutes. That’s the only difference.
- Other seafood: Replace some of the shrimp with small pieces of firm white fish, scallops, crab or octopus.
- Lemon juice: Use half fresh lemon juice and half fresh lime juice for more refreshing flavor.
- Add fresh vegetables or fruit: Like diced cucumber, red bell pepper, green onion, serrano chile pepper, mango or pineapple.
- Make Mexican shrimp ceviche: By adding traditional Mexican spice, Tajin.
- Clamato: Add a bit of clamato to taste to cooked ceviche.
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