Excellent Ceviche Verde-Green Ceviche! Made with shrimp, fresh tomatillos, habanero peppers, serrano peppers, scallions, garlic, cilantro, avocado and fresh lime juice. Hyper delicious Mexican appetizer!
Ceviche Verde-Green Ceviche is one of my favorite appetizers. It’s so light and superbly delicious. In addition, it’s healthy and refreshing. We should all be having Ceviche Verde-Green Ceviche everyday! You will love this dish today, tomorrow and the next day too.
Que es Ceviche/What is Ceviche
Ceviche is normally small pieces of raw seafood cooked and marinated with limes or lemons. The acidity cooks the seafood.
You can add red onions, white onions, tomatoes, avocados, cucumbers, cilantro, scallions, olives and chili peppers. Whatever you prefer in your ceviche, you can add.
You can even make a vegetarian ceviche! Here is my version on a delicious vegetarian ceviche recipe, Mushroom Ceviche.
Tomatillos
This Ceviche Verde-Green Ceviche is a shrimp ceviche and is made with one key ingredient. Tomatillos! Tomatillos and cilantro are what gives the ceviche that green color you see.
I use tomatillos in many of my mexican appetizers. One recipe in particular I’m sure you would enjoy very much is from a past post of Chilaquiles Verdes with Chicken. (Check it out and let me know what you think.)
Tomatillos originated in Mexico and are considered to be the “mexican tomato.” Likewise, tomatillos are also called “tomate verde” or green tomato.
Shown below, they have a green husk that covers them as they grow. As the tomatillo starts to ripen it will break through the husk.
Green Ceviche Recipe
When purchasing tomatillos for this ceviche verde-green ceviche recipe, keep in mind to look for the husk to be green and not brown around the tomatillos. The husk has to be green. If the husk is brown, it may indicate that the tomatillo is ripe and is better useful in other mexican dishes. Normally, these may or may not be green inside.
Tomatillos can be green, yellow, red or purple.
You will find tomatillos in your produce section, usually beside the jalapeños and serrano peppers.
Like I said, I use tomatillos quite a bit, especially since I make a lot of salsa verde (green sauce). Salsa verde also is another recipe that uses tomatillos as its main ingredient. You cannot make green sauce without these babies!
Tomatillos, also have a tartness to them that enhances the flavor in a Ceviche Verde Recipe and with all the other combination of ingredients, this appetizer is a winner! The cilantro, garlic, serrano peppers, habanero peppers, scallions, limes and avocados…Mmmmm… Mmmmm…SO GOOD!
If you’re not a fan of spicy foods, do not let the fact that I said habanero and serrano peppers in that last statement scare you. Let me explain, for some reason acidic liquids such as lime juice weakens the heat in a chili pepper. As a matter of fact for this Ceviche Verde-Green Ceviche, I used 2 habaneros and 1 serrano and yet I didn’t feel the heat.
Side Note: Did you know that June 28th is El dia del Ceviche or The Day of the Ceviche?
Okay so lets get to making this delicious Ceviche Verde-Green Ceviche! One more thing, if you let it marinate overnight, it tastes even more delicious!
For more delicious ceviche recipes take a look at these:
Tilapia Ceviche with Guacamole and Tortilla Chips (one of my favorites!)
and for a vegetarian twist, check out this superb Mushroom Ceviche recipe (also one of my favorites!)
okay, I can’t pick, they are all my favorites!
📖 Recipe
Ceviche Verde-Green Ceviche
Ingredients
- 1 Pound small raw shrimp peeled and deveined
- 1-2 tomatillos husk removed, rinsed and chopped into quarters
- 1 avocado seed removed and into quarter inch cubes
- 4 garlic cloves finely chopped
- 4 scallions rinsed and chopped
- 1-2 habernero peppers seeds removed and finely chopped
- 1 serrano pepper seeds and membrane removed, finely chopped
- ½ cup lime juice use fresh limes
- a handful of cilantro
- salt and pepper to taste
OPTIONAL
- tortilla chips
Instructions
Step 1
- Peel and devein shrimp and place in a plastic bowl. Place in the refrigerator until ready to use.
Step 2
- Remove husk from tomatillo, rinse and quarter.
- Juice limes.Rinse cilantro.
- Place all in a blender or chopper and blend until smooth. Pour all the liquid into bowl with shrimps.
- Remove pit from avocado and cut into quarter inch pieces.
- Chop scallions and garlic.
- Add to bowl and refrigerate for a few hours or better if marinated overnight.
- Add salt , pepper and finely chopped habanero, serrano peppers when ready to serve.
Step 3
- Serve in small glasses, shot glasses or martini glasses. Serve with tortilla chips or by itself. Enjoy!Note: Serves 4 or more if served in shot glasses.
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Do you have any favorite ceviche recipes of your own? Let me know!
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