Mexico Seafood Dishes

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Mexican Seafood Recipes

From lime-cured aguachile to fire-grilled pescado zarandeado, the dishes that define Mexico's Pacific and Gulf coasts.

Pescado zarandeado, butterflied grilled fish on a platter Baja fish tacos with shredded cabbage and creamy sauce Mexican shrimp cocktail with avocado and cucumber +2
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Mexico's two coastlines give it a seafood tradition all its own: lime-cured aguachile from Sinaloa, whole fish grilled zarandeado-style in Nayarit, Baja's battered fish tacos, and the shrimp dishes, a la diabla and cóctel de camarones, found on every Gulf and Pacific menu.
Aguachile, lime-cured shrimp with serrano chile and cucumber
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Aguachile

Raw shrimp cured in lime juice with serrano chile, cucumber and red onion, aguachile is Sinaloa's sharper, spicier cousin of ceviche, made and eaten within minutes.

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Pescado zarandeado, butterflied grilled fish on a platter
Pescado Zarandeado
Butterflied whole fish grilled over coals with a chile-citrus marinade
Baja fish tacos with shredded cabbage and creamy sauce
Baja Fish Tacos
Beer-battered fish, shredded cabbage and creamy sauce in warm tortillas
Camarones a la diabla, shrimp in red chile sauce
Camarones a la Diabla
Shrimp simmered in a fiery guajillo and chile de árbol sauce
Mexican shrimp cocktail with avocado and cucumber
Cóctel de Camarones
Chilled shrimp in a tomato-lime broth with avocado and cucumber

A Guide to Mexican Seafood

Mexico has two long coastlines, and its seafood cooking is sharper and spicier than most people expect. Aguachile from Sinaloa is the clearest example: raw shrimp cured in lime with chile, cucumber and onion, eaten within minutes of being made. Up the Pacific coast in Nayarit, pescado zarandeado is a whole fish butterflied, brushed with chile and grilled over coals, and Baja fish tacos wrap battered fish in tortillas with cabbage and crema. Shrimp gets the two classic treatments: camarones a la diabla, simmered in a fiery guajillo sauce, and cóctel de camarones, served chilled in a tomato-lime broth with avocado.

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