Menu du jour prickly pear cactus : 7 Recipes


  • Recipe Prickly Pear (Cactus Fruit)
    Prickly Pear (Cactus Fruit) (1 vote)
    Have you ever tried a prickly pear ? Also known as Optunia.     First thing you need to be aware of this fruit is grown on a cactus so it does have many prickles that do hurt if you get pricked.  Be very careful when[...]
  • Recipe Prickly Pear Jam 101 Tutorial
    Prickly Pear Jam 101 Tutorial
    Happy Birthday to my husband ACE! If wandering through the desert and desperate for food...I might eat a cactus. Arizona has very specific native plant laws and it is actually illegal to just go out and fill up your buckets. I found a great[...]
  • Recipe PRICKLY PEAR VINAIGRETTE (Cactus Pears)
    PRICKLY PEAR VINAIGRETTE (Cactus Pears)
    2 each prickly pear cactus fruit 1/2 each banana 2 tbsp. honey 1 tbsp. rice wine vinegar 1/2 each lemon, juice of 1/2 each lime, juice of Peel skin off of prickly pears and the banana and put the fruit into a blender. Add the honey, vinegar,[...]
  • Recipe Cooking with the prickly pear cactus
    Cooking with the prickly pear cactus
    The prickly pear cactus plant grows wild throughout the southern region of Arizona where the air is warm and dry. It produces large, green, succulent pads that bear plump, juicy fruits in the late summer months. NOPALES Prickly pear pads[...]
  • Recipe Cooking with the prickly pear cactus
    Cooking with the prickly pear cactus
    The prickly pear cactus plant grows wild throughout the southern region of Arizona where the air is warm and dry. It produces large, green, succulent pads that bear plump, juicy fruits in the late summer months. NOPALES Prickly pear pads[...]
  • Recipe Prickly-Pear Fruit Salad
    Prickly-Pear Fruit Salad
    Ingredients: 4 Prickly-Pear Cactus Fruit 2 Kiwi 1 Mango 1 Orange 1/2 cup Heavy Cream 1-2 tsp Granulated Sugar Dash of Cinnamon 1 tsp Orange Zest Fresh Mint for Garnish Directions: Prepare the Fruit. Prickly-Pear Cactus[...]
  • Recipe Flavors of New Mexico ? Part 1
    Flavors of New Mexico ? Part 1
    We have been busy. We have been away on our road trip from Texas to the Southern New Mexico; The Caverns, a hill station and a ski resort, glyphs from long long time back, and the dream like White Sands National Monument.  We drove straight[...]



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