Ceviche Mixto Tostadas
Fresh seafood cured in citrus juice, served on crispy tostadas with a bright lime and cilantro topping. Ready in 20 minutes with no cooking required.
- Total time
- 20 min
- Servings
- 2
- Calories
- 185
- Protein
- 28g
Ingredients
- ½ lb fresh white fish (halibut or mahi-mahi), skinless and boneless
- ¼ lb shrimp, peeled and deveined
- ¾ cup fresh lime juice
- 6 count tostadas (corn tortilla crisps)
- ¼ medium red onion
- 3 tablespoon fresh cilantro, chopped
Instructions
- 1
Place the fish on a cutting board. Hold your knife parallel to the board and slice the fish crosswise into 0.5-inch-thick pieces, like slicing bread. You should have about 12 pieces total.
- 2
Hold each shrimp against the cutting board and slice it lengthwise down the middle, splitting it in half from the head end to the tail. You should have about 10 halves.
- 3
Place the fish and shrimp pieces in a medium bowl. Pour the lime juice over them until they are completely submerged — the juice should cover everything by about 0.5 inch.
- 4
Stir the seafood gently with a spoon once, then let it sit at room temperature without stirring for 10 minutes. The white fish should turn opaque (no longer translucent) and the shrimp should turn pink.
- 5
Hold the red onion with the root end facing away from you. Slice it lengthwise from root to tip into thin slivers about 0.125 inches wide, like hair strands. Place the slivers in a small bowl.
- 6
Using a slotted spoon, lift the seafood pieces from the lime juice bowl and transfer them to the bowl with the onion. Discard the lime juice.
- 7
Add the cilantro to the seafood and onion bowl. Stir gently with a spoon until everything is mixed together, about 10 turns of the spoon.
- 8
Place one tostada on a plate. Spoon a small heap of the ceviche mixture onto the center of the tostada — about 2 tablespoons — so it looks like a small mound.
- 9
Repeat step 8 with the remaining 5 tostadas, dividing the ceviche evenly among them. Arrange them on a serving plate and serve immediately.
Tools you’ll need
- cutting board
- chef's knife
- medium mixing bowl
- spoon
- small bowl
- slotted spoon
- serving plate
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