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Ceviche with Avocado, Mango, Passion Fruit & Pomegranate

The chef de cuisine at Terre Blanche Hotel Spa Golf Resort in Provence likes to feature the best local ingredients in his dishes.

Christophe Schmitt

Ingredients

Ingredients
950 g meagre/stone bass
2 avocados
1 mango
1 pomegranate
1 coconut
150 g wild rice
1 red onion
3 passion fruits
2 limes, juice & zest
80 g mango vinegar
60 g olive oil from provence
40 g lavender honey
15 g ginger
3 g salt
1 bunch coriander
piment d'espelette
coarse salt

Preparation

  • First remove the skin of the fish, then soak the fish fillet in salt for eight minutes. Rinse under cold running water and store in a dry cloth.
  • Sear the fish briefly on both sides in a very hot frying pan with very little fat so that it remains raw. Then place it in the refrigerator.
  • Peel one mango and, using a ball cutter, form three balls per plate.
  • Mix the remaining mango, passion fruit pulp, honey, mango vinegar, ginger, salt, and lime zest and juice in a blender and emulsify with olive oil.
  • Toast the wild rice in a dry pan, the rice will start to pop up.
  • Cut the coconut in half (you can save the coconut water for another dish), remove the shell and place the coconut pieces in the freezer.
  • Thinly slice the avocados including the avocado peel.
  • Then roast and marinate with olive oil, salt and lime juice.
  • Three avocado slices are needed per person.
  • Remove the peel of the avocado just before serving.
  • Blend the remaining avocado slices with Piment d' Espelette, salt and lime juice in a blender and then place it in a bag.
  • Cut the pomegranate in half and, using a tablespoon, knock the fruit out of the pomegranate.

To serve

  • In a deep plate, first arrange the fish fillet cut into thin slices.
  • On top of that, place spots of mashed avocado, grilled avocado slices, mango balls, spots of mango-passion fruit vinaigrette, pomegranate seeds as well as crispy rice. 
  • Finally, garnish with iced shredded coconut and coriander.
Christophe Schmitt
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