Sliced and Juiced Prickly Pear
You might wonder how to eat Prickly Pears if you've ever seen them growing on a plant. Prickly pear juice is delicious and can be used in drinks, sauces, vinaigrettes and desserts.
Servings: 1
Calories: 40kcal
Ingredients
- 1 whole prickly (cactus) pear
Instructions
- Put on cooking gloves! If you don't, you will tiny, almost invisible, sharp spines stuck in your fingers and hands.
- Use paring knife to cut about ½ inch off of each end of the fruit.
- Make a slit with the knife, vertically, through the skin — ¼ inch deep (or less).
- Now use the tip of the knife to lift the skin away from the slit a bit.
- Use your hands to gently pull the skin off. It usually will come off in one piece and may remove a bit of the inner flesh — that’s okay. Once the skin is removed, you can cut the fruit into slices.
- If you don't want the fruit with the (edible) seeds, purée it in a blender and then strain out the seeds to use the juice.
Nutrition
Calories: 40kcal