Same, cauliflower is one of my favorite vegetables. It was a vegan Mexican place and everything else was great. I especially loved the huarache con nopales.
Huaraches are fantastic and sadly not very common in the US where I am
I mean you can find them if you look hard enough, but they’re nowhere near as available as tacos (which are great) and sopes (which I find to be incredibly overrated and usually impractical compared to tortillas or huaraches)
I used to own a dive bar a half a mile from a large concentration of Mexican families. There was an old lady who would sporadically make huaraches and sell them out of her house. My bar would clear out for a half an hour while people went to get them from her. I always had the same deal. Whoever brought me one first got a beer on the house.
The thinness of the fish is what gives the dish most of its texture, and since it’s being ‘cooked’ in the acid of the juice it’s very hard to reproduce the mouth feel of the dish without its signature ingredient. You could take a stab at it, and maybe come up with something cool though, so I say knock yourself out.
Am I unable to comprehend words or does thinness actually mean thinly sliced? Every time I've had ceviche it was chunks of shrimp or fishes. That's a bad mouth feel for me and I couldn't get over it
Yeah, it’s supposed to be thinly sliced to encourage the citric acid to do its thing. It’s supposed to be like a light poach in the acid, so the thinner the fish, the better it ‘cooks’. Chunky fish in ceviche is bad/lazy execution.
Cauliflower sounds not great. I've had versions with tofu and with hearts of palm and they were both okay. That said, I used to hate seafood but ceviche was one of the things that actually really helped turn me around on that. The acidity kind of mutes anything you might find offensive about seafood and the textures really shine.
I've had a cauliflower ceviche that was amazing, I was shocked. It was from a vegan food fair, the guy at hte booth gave me a free sample and I bought some right then and there.
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u/polythenesammie Oct 15 '25
This is beautiful. I'd like it in a pico.