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ceviche

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ceviche.

Editorial note

Also, you've never really had ceviche until you've had Peruvian ceviche - sweet potato and all!

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Quick take

(cooking) Raw seafood cured by marination in an acidic medium such as citrus, vinegar, or other souring agent, found primarily in Latin America.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ceviche gathered in one view.

noun

(cooking) Raw seafood cured by marination in an acidic medium such as citrus, vinegar, or other souring agent, found primarily in Latin America.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ceviche.

noun

(cooking) Raw seafood cured by marination in an acidic medium such as citrus, vinegar, or other souring agent, found primarily in Latin America.

Example sentences

1

Also, you've never really had ceviche until you've had Peruvian ceviche - sweet potato and all!

2

However tartare or ceviche or any other kind of raw fish preparation in the US is safe if it's made from tuna or (properly) frozen fish.

3

The ceviche method isn't a fermentation process - it can cook fish in the fridge in half a day.

4

Onion in the ceviche may help (on second thought, it might be another strike against the strawberries).

5

If you can open the freezer, ceviche is a really nice food to enjoy with fresh veggies and requires no heat.

6

You end up with wonderful stuff like ceviche, chifa cuisine, and pisco sours.

7

There’s also ceviche which is not exactly raw, but not heated either.

8

They have a method of cooking fish from Peru, called ceviche, just using lemon juice to lower the ph that does all of the work.

9

Yeah, I was about to say, I've had mango salsa ceviche that was pretty killer.

10

Riffing on ceviche seems like a plausible path to something edible.

11

I arrived at a sibling comment's observation, that ceviche could be a better approach.

12

Miami, had a lot of tasty Cuban food (best ceviche I ever had).

Quote examples

1

I would try this "beef ceviche" dish if I knew it was from a safe source.

2

Note that ceviche is a different class of "raw" than e.g.

3

> When you “cook” a piece of fish in salt and lime (a la Ceviche) you are also altering the protein structures).

4

This is especially true of the amount of semantic processing to know that, unlike 99% of the mentions of "Chad" in English (and maybe Romanian) conversation, "Chad" isn't referring to the dude down the hall who makes a mean quinoa ceviche.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ceviche in a sentence?

Also, you've never really had ceviche until you've had Peruvian ceviche - sweet potato and all!

What does ceviche mean?

(cooking) Raw seafood cured by marination in an acidic medium such as citrus, vinegar, or other souring agent, found primarily in Latin America.

What part of speech is ceviche?

ceviche is commonly used as noun.