How To Make Shrimp Ceviche

The ingredients you need for that are: some prawns, we're going to use raw prawns, and this is how they look when they're cooked. We've got some coriander or cilantro, we've got avocado, we've got chili, fresh red chili, fresh diced cucumber, red onion, lemon juice, lime juice to finish at the end, and a little seasoning. First of all, we're going to cook the raw prawns.

Now, the reason why we cook them is because you can make this with raw fish, but with prawn, because it's a shellfish, we feel that you need to just blanch it first. You have to be quite careful with this dish, because the proteins in the fish will be cooked by the acidic juices in the lemon and the lime, so you mustn't cook them for too long, otherwise they'll be rubbery. So, we're literally, in the pan, we're just going to blanch them in boiling water, and you'll notice that they cook really quickly, and the way you tell that they're cooked is when they're pink.

We're just going to leave them for two minutes. You should add some salt in there, couple of teaspoons of salt, and then we're going to plunge them immediately into cold water to stop them cooking any further. So when we've done that, we're going to chop them, which Flip is going to do now.

What we've done before this is literally slice them down the back. Here we go then, we've got the shell, we've taken off the shell and take the tail off as well. We're keeping that one with the tail on for decoration.

You need to de-vein the prawn and get the toxins out, so we are going to just de-vein it, you literally just cut that in half and then slice it up thinly so that we can mix it up with all the other ingredient. You must de-vein, you must get rid of the intestines. And is that like a black strip in the back? It is; you can't miss it.

And then, while Flip is doing that, I'm going to pop into the bowl - we're making enough for one person, so we need just a quarter of chopped avocado, a quarter of fresh red chili - serrano chilies are really good to use for that but you can't always get hold of them - quarter of finely chopped cucumber, one quarter of finely chopped red onion, some lemon juice, probably about half a lemon there, and then the prawn is going in, always at the last minute, the prawn. Yeah, because that would again overcook the protein, so you really want to do the avocado and the prawns at the last minute. You can put a shot of tequila in if you like.

Little bit of salt. The limes - always give the limes a roll on the surface to loosen them up, you get a lot more juice out of them. Juice of half a lime, mix the prawn in.

Did we put avocado in there? We have. And then, we're going to put in some roughly chopped coriander into the bowl. Salt and pepper, did you put in in there? I've done.

Pop it into a dip. This makes a great canape also, so if you have some little corn chips or corn tortillas, you can pop it onto a corn tortilla as a lovely little canape. Pop a nice big prawn on the top.

All the preparation for this, if you're doing it for a dinner party, can be done in the morning, and then you can just do the mixing at the last minute. And that's how you make a shrimp ceviche. .