Vegan Ceviche

 

I really enjoy ceviche. However, I wanted a vegan option based on the standard fermented vegetables recipe. Rather than use lots of salt and lemon as per the regular fish ceviche recipe, my vegan version will allow the salt and souring of the brine to deliver those same properties of saltiness and acidity.

In some cultures, the ceviche is served with a dash of ketchup and may even be tossed into a bag of crispy tortilla chips and together called a 'caldosa'. I am not yet making crispy chips. However, since it is possible to make fermented ketchup (below), I was also keen to create my own.

You will need the following vegetable combination. Place it in brine and proceed as normal in my usual fermented vegetables recipe.

• Fish substitute: palm hearts or cauliflower, diced
• Culantro, chopped
• red onions, chopped
• sweet peppers, chopped
• nori sheet, finely shredded (optional for a seafood flavor)

    

Optional: Fermented tomato ketchup to be added only when you will eat the ceviche. For some reason, when I try to add my ketchup to the ferment, the ferment fails.

CONTENT RELATED TO VEGAN CEVICHE

• Speedup digestion
• Fermented foods
• Sauerkraut (full instructions)
• Fermented vegetables
• Vegan ceviche
• Fermented garlic in honey
• Ginger bug
• Fermented drinks (ginger ale, fermented lemonade, etc)
• Cheong: sweet fermented syrup
• High protein yogurt with chickpeas
• Extra creamy yogurt with oats
• DIY chickpea yogurt
• Oat yogurt
• Vegan milks and other drinks
• Creamy rice milk
• Water kefir
• Tofu
• Chickpea tofu
• Breakfast or snacks
• Vegan Caribbean Christmas cake
• Pink (beetroot) pancake recipe
• Tortillas (Green spinach)
• Protein granola bar
• Pizza
• Barbadian (aka Bajan) conkies
• Other
• Vegan eggs
• Topping (guacamole inspired)
• Papaya salad to improve enzyme activity and improve digestive health
• Sprouts (lentils)
• Ghee (not vegan)
• Agar agar (medicinal superfood great for making vegan flan with vegan milks)

Fermented tomato ketchup recipe (loosely inspired by Mary's Nest)

• 1.5 cups tomato paste (home made or store bought)
• 4 tsp raw apple cider vinegar
• 0.5 tbsp Worchestire sauce
• sweetener: sugar (white or brown), maple syrup, etc
• 1/4 cup extra water from fermented vegan ceviche or other vegetables -- OR -- a combination of the following
• water, non chlorinated with
• 4 tsp liquid fermentation starter using a well fermented liquid from water kefir, kombucha, etc
• Optional: 
• herbs, sea salt