Corvina Ceviche

Homemade corvina ceviche is not difficult to make. Enjoy this delightful starter dish at the comfort of your own home:). I love using lots of fresh limes, onion, cilantro, aji amarillo etc etc to give this ceviche an authentic taste.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Latin American, Peruvian

Keyword ceviche, corvina ceviche, fish ceviche

Prep Time 30

Marinating time 1 30

Total Time 2

Servings servings

Calories 346kcal

Author Sonila

Equipment

1 Blender
2 glass mixing bowl
1 metal strainer

Ingredients

2 lbs corvina fish
1 red onion
1 tbsp aji amarillo adjust for spice according to taste, also on fresh or paste.
1 tsp rocoto chili (spicy red chili) this adds a lot of spice, optional to use
5 tbsps fresh chopped cilantro
1.5 cups freshly squeezed lime juice about 8 big limes
1 tbsp sea salt, divided I get a pinch from it few times during the whole process.
2 ice cubes
2 cups cold water
16 ozs choclo grains
0.5 tsp sugar
1 star anise
2 sweet potatoes
1 cinnamon stick
8 ozs toasted corn try to buy this already toasted, then just warm up in a stainless steel skillet.

Instructions

Cut corvina fillet in bite size cubes, even smaller if you can. Add cubes to a glass bowl. Add a pinch of salt over fish cubes and a little cold water (few tbsps, not much). Cover the bowl and refrigerate while you prepare the rest. Reserve fish pieces that didn't cut in perfect cubes for leche de tigre.
Slice red onion. Place ⅔ of the onion in cold water in a pyrex and the remaining ⅓ onion in a glass bowl. In the glass bowl add 3 tbsps of chopped cilantro, aji amarillo to taste, rocoto to taste, a pinch of salt and mix everything together. (optional you can add celery too). Let the vegetables mix and release their juices.
Add choclo grains to a pot with water. Add some salt, sugar and star anise. Cook for about 20 minutes, then drain choclo and let cool for later.
Boil two sweet potatoes in another pot, add a cinnamon stick to pot. Once you can pierce the sweet potatoes with a fork, then remove pot from heat, drain and let the sweet potatoes cool down. Then peel, slice and let stand ready for when we'll put ceviche plate together.
If you bought toasted corn already toasted, add to a stainless skillet few minutes before putting ceviche together and just warm up.
Squeeze enough limes to get 1.5 cups of juice. Usually that's about 8 limes for me, but since limes tend to have various shapes and amount of juice inside, juice enough of them to get to 1.5 cups of juice.
Now it's time to prepare Leche de Tigre. Get a blender. Add the few pieces of fish you reserved that couldn't be cubed. Add the vegetables that you had placed on the glass bowl. Add lime juice. Then add 2 ice cubes and few tbsps of cold water. Blend 5-10 seconds, strain over a bowl with a fine mesh strainer. Press with a spoon to get every drop of juice. This is the magic marinate for ceviche, Leche de Tigre (Tiger's Milk).
Finally, get the refrigerated corvina fish. Drain the water. Add 1 tbsp of fresh cilantro, the sliced onion that was in water and finally top it off with Leche de Tigre. Mix so all the fish is immersed in marinade. Refrigerate for about 1-1.5 hours.
Final step is to put the platter together. You can let your creativity fly over here:). Add ceviche to plate in a mountain shape, in a pile. Then add slices of sweet potatoes, choclo and toasted corn. Garnish with more limes and cilantro as you desire. Enjoy:).

Video

Notes

Ingredients like cilantro, red onion and chilis can be a bit subjective when making ceviche. I love the freshness that cilantro and red onions add. Some people like a more spicy ceviche than others. So feel free to adjust these ingredients to taste:).
I've included a lot of instructions to avoid any confusion, but sometimes too much writing can complicate the process. Watch the video because it will make it so much easier to understand how to make this, I promise it's not difficult.
Optional - you can add some lettuce leafs in the serving platter before adding ceviche and all the sides in. It adds to the elegance of the plate.

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