Aguachiles seafood. As I said, the most famous Aguachile is with shrimp, but this recipe is also prepared with other seafood and fish, like tuna, snapper, clams, or octopus. The octopus Aguachile is the only one where the seafood is previously boiled before being marinated. Shrimp are marinated in a serrano-lime mixture and topped with fresh red onions, avocados, and cucumbers to make this cold and spicy aguachile.
You can have Aguachiles seafood using 6 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Aguachiles seafood
- It’s 1 of small bag of raw shrimp.
- You need 1 bag of lime.
- You need 6 of Serrano chiles.
- You need 1 of red onion.
- You need 1 handful of cilantro.
- It’s 1 of cucumber.
The place is small but a think is the better seafood in El Paso. See all photos from Geovanni E. for Los Aguachiles Seafood Grill & Bar Aguachile is a raw marinated seafood dish that is said to originate in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa. Best known for the beach town, Matzalan, Sinaloa has a unique position that means its coastline crosses from the Sea of Cortez into the Pacific Ocean. And that means that seafood is a major player in the classic foods from the region.
Aguachiles seafood step by step
Clean your raw shrimp cut in half and take out the black string then rinse.
This is what I mean by black string.
Squeeze lime juice enough to cover the shrimp I usually use the whole bag like 8 or more limes.
Then cut Serrano peppers in halves and remove the seeds.
Add chile to a half cup of lime juice and blend it.
Cover shrimp in lime and pepper juice refrigerate.
Slice red onion.
Chop cilantro.
Slice cucumber.
Add your onion, cilantro and cucumber to your shrimp.
Let sit for 20 minutes so shrimp cooks in lime juice it will turn pink and is safe to eat if you are unsure about eating shrimp "raw" boil some water and toss shrimp in for about 8 minutes before putting it in lime juice.
Serve on tostadas with avocado slices.
Aguachile is a chili-spiked style of Mexican ceviche. [Photographs: Vicky Wasik] If you love ceviche, then Mexico's aguachile is for you. Traditionally made with raw shrimp, lime juice, chilies, cucumber, and onion, it's served immediately while still totally raw, unlike most other ceviche recipes. But this is in the heart of the tourist zone so it's undoubtedly more popular at snagging those unsuspecting passers-by who don't realize what great eats are held within. Mexican seafood has to be my favorite type of food to eat. A restaurant based on their shrimp cocktails and this place is doing it right!
