I live in the middle of a desert and only just recently discovered nopales (cactus). It's very good! And healthy!
https://www.mexicoinmykitchen.com/nopal ... an-recipe/
Super healthy:
https://www.healthline.com/health/nopal
You can usually find them in any Latino style grocery.
Nopales
- PadmaVonSamba
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Re: Nopales
Prickly pear is the common name in English. They also produce delicious red fruits. I have never gotten over the novelty of fruiting cacti: they are beautiful.DNS wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 7:02 pm I live in the middle of a desert and only just recently discovered nopales (cactus). It's very good! And healthy!
https://www.mexicoinmykitchen.com/nopal ... an-recipe/
Super healthy:
https://www.healthline.com/health/nopal
You can usually find them in any Latino style grocery.
It is mostly the young spring pads that are consumed. Pads are less tender at other times of year.
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- Kim O'Hara
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Re: Nopales
We don't eat many cacti, do we?
Here's one of the (few) others, the Dragonfruit or Pitaya - https://nt.gov.au/environment/home-gard ... agon-fruit
The taste is fairly bland but it looks amazing (especially the red-fleshed variety) so it's particularly good in fruit salad.
It grows easily in our dry monsoonal climate, to the degree that it has jumped the fence and become a feral pest in some places. The Prickly Pear, of course, was a far worse pest here -
- so eat as much of it as you like!!
Kim
Here's one of the (few) others, the Dragonfruit or Pitaya - https://nt.gov.au/environment/home-gard ... agon-fruit
The taste is fairly bland but it looks amazing (especially the red-fleshed variety) so it's particularly good in fruit salad.
It grows easily in our dry monsoonal climate, to the degree that it has jumped the fence and become a feral pest in some places. The Prickly Pear, of course, was a far worse pest here -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prickly_p ... _AustraliaPrickly pears (mostly Opuntia stricta) were imported into Australia in the 19th century for use as a natural agricultural fence and in an attempt to establish a cochineal dye industry.[1] Many of these, especially the Tiger Pear, quickly became widespread invasive species, rendering 40,000 km2 (15,000 sq mi) of farming land unproductive.
- so eat as much of it as you like!!
Kim
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Re: Nopales
Nopales are great mixed in with scrambled eggs.
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