Sinaloa
Aguachile: raw shrimp-lime.
Aguachile
Sinaloa raw-shrimp ceviche variant
View page →Sinaloa is the Pacific shrimp coast — the home of aguachile (raw shrimp cured in a fierce green lime-jalapeño-cilantro sauce, eaten cold and barely 'cooked'). Flour tortillas dominate here rather than corn — the northern Mexican wheat belt starts in Sinaloa. Beach palapas serve aguachile-mariscos breakfasts at 9am with Pacífico beer; this is Mexico's surf-and-shrimp half.
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Raw shrimp cured 5 minutes in fierce green lime-jalapeño-cilantro sauce. Blushed-pink, just-cooked.
Why start here · The Pacific-coast Sinaloa specialty. Once you've had aguachile fresh on a beach you'll never look at ceviche the same way — it's hotter, fresher, more alive.
Garlic-butter shrimp in soft flour tortillas with chipotle mayo and cabbage.
Why start here · Northern Mexico's flour-tortilla signature applied to shrimp. The Sinaloan version is butter-forward where the rest of Mexico would lean on oil and chile.
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