Scallop Aguachile - Andrew Zimmern

Scallop Aguachile - Andrew Zimmern

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When I first ventured to coastal Mexico, I fell in love with aguachile, the dressing of seafood with "chile water."

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Ingredients

  • 8 ounces tomatillos, chopped
  • 1/2 bunch cilantro, chopped
  • 1/3 cup chopped scallions
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons honey
  • 1 serrano chile, stemmed
  • 1 cup coconut water
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice (about 2 lemons)
  • 1/4 cup lime juice (about 4 limes)
  • 1/2 large English cucumber, chopped (about 1h cup)
  • Salt
  • 1 pound fresh jumbo dry-pack sea scallops, sliced across in half or thirds
  • 1 teaspoon toasted fennel seeds
  • 1 carrot, steamed and cooled, thinly sliced into rings (about 1/2 cup)
  • 1 small Persian cucumber, thinly sliced into rings (about I cup)
  • 1 shallot, thinly sliced into rings (about 1/4 cup)
  • 1/2 cup mint leaves (from about 4 sprigs) and mint flowers if you have them
  • 1/2 cup cilantro leaves (from about 4 sprigs)
  • 1/2 cup of your favorite edible flowers

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