Sunday's Salad~ Ceviche

This Sunday's Salad Sampler comes from Candi. Her SlowTravel blog is Wanderlust and Passions, you have to check it out for the amazing variety of travel and culture.

Candi picked a ceviche salad, which is a popular fish salad in South America and Mexico. Usually the fish is 'cooked' in lime juice (more like pickled). This recipe calls for actually cooking the fish, using lime juice to add flavor. That sounded better to me!
Ceviche
To cook the fish: 3 cups of water or chicken broth
1/2 cups white wine
juice of two limes
1 jalapeno or Serrano chili sliced in half
3 gloves of garlic,crushed
1 Tbs Old Bay seasoning
1/2 lb firm white fish fillet (halibut or the like)
1/2 lb large shrimp,peeled and deveined
Coat the fish and shrimp with old bay. Bring the broth,wine, lime juice, chili and garlic to simmer. Add fish and shrimp and simmer(do not boil) until fish is opaque(about 5 minutes) and shrimp is pink(about 2 minutes). Remove from poaching liquid and cool in the refrigerator.

To make the salad:
2 large tomatoes,diced
1/2 white onion, diced
1 jalapeno,seeded and diced(or more if you wish)
juice of two limes
1/4 cup cilantro, diced
hot sauce to taste
sea salt and cracked black peppers to taste
Mix tomatoes, onion, jalapeno,lime juice and cilantro together. Season to taste with hot sauce,salt and pepper.When the fish is cool, cut shrimp in half and fish into bite-sized pieces. Mix into tomato mixture. Chill for at least one hour and up to four hours.

I loved the freshness of this salad. It was not the least bit 'fishy'.

You need to give it a try!

Y'all enjoy!
Sandi