Originally Posted by
Sacrelicious
Well, didn't get a reply regarding protein, but here is a ceviche I like.
Ingredients:
Prawns (21/25, butterflied. Or something of a similar size)
Whitefish, cut into small cubes. Halibut or Lingcod work best.
Scallops, sliced into discs.
Celery, very fine dice.
Cucumber, peeled and seeded, very fine dice.
Radish, sliced into discs extremely thin to the point where its almost translucent.
Lime, juiced.
Grapefruit, juiced.
Orange, juiced.
Rhubarb, juiced.
Serrano pepper (Optional)
Start by making your ceviche liquid using the lime, grapefruit, orange and rhubarb juice. Make it to suit your own tastes, personally I like less orange and grapefruit and more lime in mine. The key here is the rhubarb juice, it makes the flavor totally unique and gives your liquid an amazing color. If you want some heat, add some serrano.
Put your proteins into the liquid and leave them there until the acid denatures the protein and "cooks" them, they are finished when the fish starts to become firm.
To serve, pour some of the liquid onto a plate and plate up your proteins. Round out the dish with small spoonfuls of the diced celery and cucumber, and with the sliced radish.
To garnish, I like using picked watercress, picked celery leaves (the really light yellow ones) and brunoised serrano peppers. Microgreens work well too.
I have a photo I can send you privately if you wish, it might give you a better idea. I'd post it here but we have served it at my restaurant and I don't want anything from my job posted on a gambling forum.
Anywho, this is a bangin summer appetizer.