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Ceviche clasico de corvina
Marisol Quispe Talledo
Head chef, Cebicheria Rompiente Norte, Lima, PE
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Ceviche clasico de corvina

2 h 30 min total80 min hands-onServes 4Medium

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The lime is doing the cooking, so fish temperature and the minute it goes into the juice decide the whole plate.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Fine-mesh chinois, Digital scale accurate to 1 g, Thin slicing knife with a long blade
Allergens
Fish, Celery
Method
22 steps · 18 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
4 made from scratch
Films
3, 27 min

4 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Leche de tigre

Film

The cold cloudy lime base the fish sits in, built from lime juice, fish trim, aji and ice.

Anything bottled has been pasteurised, and fresh lime juice loses its top note within twenty minutes.

  • Limon sutil000 g
  • Fish trim and bones000 g
Steps
8
Time
25 min
Hands-on
20 min

Makes 600 ml, four portions; use within 2 hours, never the next day

No more than 30 minutes before service, held over ice

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Pasta de aji amarillo

Film

Yellow Peruvian chillies deveined, blanched three times in fresh water, then blended smooth with oil.

Jarred paste carries preservative sourness and a heat level you cannot dial back once it is in.

  • Aji amarillo000 g
  • Neutral oil000 g
Steps
6
Time
40 min
Hands-on
20 min

Makes 350 g; keeps 10 days chilled under oil, or 3 months frozen in 20 g blocks

Up to a week ahead, frozen in single-service blocks

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Camote en almibar de anis

Sweet potato poached whole in a light star-anise syrup, cooled in it, then cut into rounds.

Plain boiled camote tastes of nothing against lime; the syrup is the balance in the dish.

  • Orange sweet potato000 g
  • Sugar000 g
Steps
5
Time
45 min
Hands-on
10 min

Makes 8 rounds of about 60 g; keeps 2 days chilled in its syrup

Morning of service, cooled in the syrup

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Cancha serrana

Dried chulpe corn toasted in oil in a covered pan until it swells and colours without popping.

Packet cancha is stale and soft, and the crunch next to raw fish only reads when it is fresh.

  • Chulpe corn000 g
  • Neutral oil000 g
Steps
4
Time
20 min
Hands-on
15 min

Makes 300 g, about 10 servings; crisp for 6 hours in a sealed tin

Same day, within six hours of service

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Corvina fillet000 g
  • Limon sutil000 g
  • Red onion000 g
  • Aji limo000 g
  • Aji amarillo000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 27 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING12:00

Buying whole fish for raw service: gills, spine blood and rigor

TECHNIQUE8:00

Cutting corvina across the grain without sawing the knife

KIT7:00

Limes, presses and the seconds of pressure that ruin the juice

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 22 STEPS

18 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 18 of the 22 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: judging when the fish is cured — step 13 of 22.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 16 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Marisol Quispe Talledo watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Fish cut on a warm board

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Salting the lime instead of the fish

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Leche de tigre built too far ahead

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The onion is cut, rinsed and shocked before it ever touches the fish, and that is what keeps the leche de tigre clean.

Written by Marisol Quispe Talledo. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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