Description
Fresh shrimp ceviche made with lime juice, avocado, cucumber, tomatoes, and cilantro. This bright seafood appetizer is refreshing, vibrant, and perfect served with tostadas or tortilla chips.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 lb medium shrimp, thawed, peeled, deveined, and diced
- 1 cup lime juice from about 6 limes
- 1 cucumber peeled and diced
- 2 avocados diced
- 3 Roma tomatoes diced
- 1 red onion diced
- 1/4 bunch cilantro chopped
- 1 jalapeño seeded and minced
- 1 cup Clamato juice
- 16 tostadas or tortilla chips for serving
- Hot sauce such as Tabasco or Cholula (optional)
Instructions
- Rinse thawed shrimp under cold running water and pat dry with paper towels to remove excess moisture.
- Dice shrimp if large and place in a large glass bowl.
- Squeeze fresh lime juice over shrimp and stir to coat.
- Cover and refrigerate to marinate for 1½ to 2 hours if using raw shrimp or about 15 minutes if using cooked shrimp, stirring halfway through.
- Dice cucumber, avocado, tomatoes, red onion, jalapeño, and chop cilantro.
- Once shrimp are marinated, add all vegetables to the bowl.
- Pour in the Clamato juice and stir gently to combine.
- Serve chilled with hot sauce along with tostadas or tortilla chips.
Notes
- Using pre-cooked shrimp reduces marinating time to about 15 minutes.
- Fresh lime juice provides the best flavor for ceviche.
- Add avocado just before serving for the best texture.
- Nutrition values do not include tostadas or tortilla chips.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 2 hours
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: No-Cook
- Cuisine: Mexican
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 156
- Sugar: 4 g
- Sodium: 620 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 1.5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 11 g
- Fiber: 3 g
- Protein: 13 g
- Cholesterol: 120 mg