I mentioned on Twitter and Facebook that I made this for dinner, and got a lot of requests, so here's my recipe for Salmon ceviche.

Ceviche is a method of "cooking" where you basically just marinate the raw fish in highly-acidic citrus juices, and leave it overnight. It originates on the pacific coast of South America. This recipe is totally inauthentic (for example, salmon live in the northern hempishere) but joyously colorful, damn tasty and very healthy for you.

The key concept here is fresh. Don't use bottled lime juice. Don't use canned tomato. And if you use dried cilantro, you're beyond help. Please leave my website and don't ever come back again.

Prep Time: 15 Minutes
"Cooking" Time: 4 hours

Ingredients

• 8 oz. raw pacific salmon filet [1]
• 3 limes
• 1 onion [2]
• 1 tomato
• 1 ounce extra virgin olive oil
• 1 jalepeno pepper (optional)
• salt, to taste
• cilantro, to taste (optional) [3]

Instructions

• slice the limes in half and squeeze all the juice into a tupperware container
• thinly slice the onion, cross-wise, and add to the juice
• chop (after seeding, if you're a wimp) the jalepeño and add to the marinade
• cut the tomato in half, remove the seeds, mince and then add to the marinade
• chop the cilantro and add it to the tupperware
• wash the salmon and pat dry
• remove the grey skin from the filet, so you only have the orange flesh
• cut the filet on a diagonal, so you have 1/4-inch thick slices
• add to marinade
• add salt to taste
• put the cover on the tupperware
• shake vigorously, to mix the ingredients and evenly-coat the fish
• put in the refridgerator and leave for four hours
• serve cold, with a slotted spoon (to leave the excess juice behind)

Tips

This recipe can be easily customized, by changing the marinade. You can omit the olive oil. You can use lemons instead of limes. Among the things you can add to that marinade are a freshly-minced clove of garlic, some ground black pepper, a teaspoon of cumin and even a tablespoon of sugar.

The dish is very acidic, so it goes well with mildly-flavored foods such as avocados or potatoes. I ate it with some freshly-baked bread, and that worked well.

Footnotes

[1] Get wild salmon. In this case "farm-raised" and "organic" are bad. Pacific salmon is ample, and the wild ones are more nutritious. In some cases, aquaculture has to add orange dye to the farmed salmon to make it look appealing. Blech.
[2] What type of onion? It depends on your taste. Yellow is milder. Red is prettier. Vidalia onions are sweeter.
[3] Various recipes call for as much as a cup of chopped cilantro. Some people loathe the herb and omit it entirely.

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