Recipes

Ceviche just jumped to the top of my list as best summer food. It’s light, spicy, refreshing, delicious, and incredibly healthy and low calorie. Oh and did I mention simple? This is one of those dishes that seems fancy and complicated but is actually very easy to make, and doesn’t have to be expensive. I made mine with tilapia which around here is about the most affordable fish you can buy. Any sturdy white ocean fish like red snapper, cod, halibut, or sea bass will work. You just want something fresh that isn’t tuna (it will disintegrate in the lime juice.) I like to make my ceviche with lots of spicy peppers and a little mango to add some sweetness, but feel free to add any vegetables you want.

And although I wouldn’t do this because I love avocado, if you want to make it even lower in points and calories, eliminate the avocado and the entire recipe is 10 points plus. You could eat the whole thing if you wanted.

Weight Watchers Ceviche
Points: 3 weight watchers pointsplus
Servings: 6
Serving Size: 1about 1/2 cup
Nutritional Information: 133.6 calories, 5.8g of fat, 6.2g of carbohydrates, 2.3g of fiber, 15.9g of protein

Ingredients

• 1 pound tilapia, cut into 1/2 cubes*
• About 1 cup lime juice
• 1/2 red onion, minced
• 1 jalapeno, seeds removed and minced
• 1 red jalapeno, seeds removed and minced (skip this if you don’t like things spicy)
• 1/2 mango, chopped
• 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
• 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
• 1 avocado, chopped
• Salt to taste

Instructions

1. Place the tilapia and onion in a non-reactive container and cover completely with lime juice. Cover and place in the fridge for 45-60 minutes until the fish is fully cooked through with the lime juice. It will be white.
2. Take the tilapia out of the fridge and drain off the lime juice. Add the remaining ingredients and salt to taste. Enjoy on it’s own, with baked tortilla chips, as a tostada on an oven baked tortilla, or even over rice for a delicious meal.
3. *Cutting the tilapia into small pieces makes this ceviche “cook” in the lime juice in much more quickly. If you want to use larger pieces of fish, just give it more time in the fridge – up to 8 hours in many recipes.