Leche de Tigre Levantamuertos

Name: Leche de Tigre Levantamuertos
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about 3½ cups (850 ml)
Cuisine: Latin
Ingredients: 50 g Fish Bones; ½ tsp (3 g) Salt; about ½ tsp (1 g) Pepper; 1 garlic clove Garlic; 2 cilantro sprigs (4 g) Cilantro; 1 celery stalk (40 g) Celery; about ½ onion (40 g) Onion; 15 g Aji Limo; 75 g Rocoto; 3 cups lime juice (720 ml) Lime Juice; pinch kion (1 g) Ginger; 1/4 cup rocoto (60 ml) Rocoto

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Gastón Acurio recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Gastón Acurio.

MARINADE · CEVICHE & RAW FISH

In the published recipe, this is the marinade for levantamuertos ceviche base.

Acurio's rocoto-spiked leche de tigre for ceviche.

On the jar

LECHE DE

Method: blend
Yield: about 3½ cups
Ingredients: 12

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Lime Juice 720 mlRocoto 60 ml

Ingredients

Fish Bones50 g
Salt½ tsp (3 g)
Pepperabout ½ tsp (1 g)
Garlic1 garlic clove
Cilantro2 cilantro sprigs (4 g)
Celery1 celery stalk (40 g)
Onionabout ½ onion (40 g)
Aji Limo15 g
Rocoto75 g
Lime Juice3 cups lime juice (720 ml)
Gingerpinch kion (1 g)
Rocoto1/4 cup rocoto (60 ml)

Method

This sauce needs a blender. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Combine measured ingredients and blend until smooth.
Taste and adjust salt and acid.

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Provenance

Gastón Acurio. Peruvian. Cited awards include: Latin America's 50 Best: Lifetime Achievement 2013; World's 50 Best (Astrid y Gastón / orbit).

Adapted from a Gastón Acurio recipe (Gastón Acurio / RPP (levantamuertos, base for 4 vasos)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Gastón Acurio / RPP (levantamuertos, base for 4 vasos) (published as “Leche de Tigre Levantamuertos”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

Can I use it as a marinade and a sauce?

Yes, but keep the portions separate. Never pour marinade that touched raw meat, poultry, or seafood back over the finished dish unless you bring it to a full boil first. Set aside a clean portion before marinating if you want a table sauce too.

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