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= Ceviche = Cevicheria is a seafood dish that originated from the coastal regions of Latin America and in the Caribbean, and it is also referred to as ceviche or more common cebiche. Ceviche can be served many different ways than just cooked, it can also be served raw and cevicheria is also prepared differently all over the region. Ceviche is Peru’s national food and is an iconic symbol of Peru. Some dishes that are similar to ceviche are poke, crudo, and carpaccio which are all fish or seafood dishes just like ceviche is. Ceviche is believed to be created about 2,000 years ago and it was supposedly brought to Latin America and South America by Moorish women from Granada. The Moorish women brought ceviche over to the Americas by traveling with the Spanish conquistadors overseas to the Americas.

You can make ceviche with different types of seafood and it can be prepared so many different ways but I will describe a shrimp ceviche dish. First You want to buy some shrimp then put it in boiling water for about 1 minute to clean it, next put it in cold water to shock the shrimp. When the shrimp has cooled you should strain it and cut the shrimp into 1-inch pieces. Next you would put the shrimp into a bowl, when in a bowl add citrus juice to the shrimp and marinate the shrimp for two hours with whatever seasoning or spices you want on it. The next step to making shrimp ceviche after you’ve done all of these steps is adding the vegetables, red onion, tomatoes, chilies, and cilantros to the shrimp in the bowl marinating the dish for another two hours after. In the final stage of preparing the shrimp ceviche you would add some avocados and cucumbers to the dish then you can serve the shrimp ceviche.

The most common place to find ceviche would be in seafood restaurants that are in Peru’s capital lima. You could also find ceviche in restaurants that are on the coastal areas of Peru. So you would most likely be able to find ceviche in any restaurant that serves seafood in that region because of it’s importance to Peru being Peru’s national food and an iconic symbol for Peru. Those are some of the places that you would be most likely to find the seafood dish ceviche.

By: Kian Kennedy