Prickly pears or Tuna in spanish, these fruits are sweet, tart and delicious. I make a puree out of them and mix them into a vinaigrette. They have a lot of pectin so they would make a great jelly and I bet they would even ferment into a nice wine. Scoop out the pulp discard the seeds and attack with an immersion bender. They are also good eaten as they are.
Lunchtime Edit
Fish cake salad with cactus fruit balsamic reduction and tiny tomatoes. The fish cakes are made with fish a little cornmeal and a little crushed cracker bound with an egg and shaped, then fried in vegetable oil. The reduction is made by simmering some cactus fruit puree with a splash of balsamic vinegar until it thickens.
19 comments:
I've never even seen these much less eaten them, but you make them sound so good. I really need a chef. Anybody want to share one?
Hey, do these taste anything like dragon fruit??? You have mentioned dragon fruit before and I told you they are red here - these look like our dragon fruits!!!
I got to a place that makes this into a lemonade...it's great!
-DTW
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I have prickly pear out in my garden! It gets beautiful yellow flowers on it! But I've never tried eating it. The damn tiny invisible bristles hurt like heck!
I heard of the jelly, but never had any...
These are great..and you are right, they are pretty tart.
joy: You need a chef - I need a chef....I would rather have someone make my concoctions for me that way I wouldnt nibble all the way through
mandi: No they are sweet but tangy and if you get a good one they are very juicy...its like a kiwi with seeds
darius T: thats a great idea - hmmmmmmm
starrlife: when these fruits show up use gloves and pick them, you can rub the outside with a bristly kitchen sponge thingy to get rid of the soft poky bristles...
buff: its good stuff, sweet like raspberries kind of sweet
harmony: you probably see these all over your neck of the woods...
there's something oddly obscene about those pictures.....
and there is NO WAY you would let someone cook for you!
Yum, I love them and the other cacti fruits- I have eaten them with lemon juice.... there is a special kind of cactus fruit that I had on a recent trip to Mexico- it was sublime..
I'm with beth, there is something with the looks of that! I can't decide, obscene, scary or extremely fruity! Is it all right if I go for all three of them?
beth: so whatever it is I am doing its working.....
zombie mom: wow adding tart to the tart...pucker up
anette: all three would be a good vote..if only everything was this easy.
Now there is the color...magic, pure magic! I am not into fish...but that looks great.
I've never eaten those before! They look cool though.
Fish Cake Salad that sounds delectable and pickly pears wow lovely...
harmony: I appreciate your appreciation....
TBD: they look really cool and exotic in an absolutely normal way - they are so abundant in the desert
ramya: well I want to try the sweet cheese that you posted today...it sounds down right tasty!
mmmm...jelly! you must make!!
oh goodness. Yes, I'll take those salads, please. Can you pass the fork?
Fish cake salad? That sounds REALLY good! And I have never heard of that cactus stuff. I learn so much from you.
I love prickly pear cactus jelly.
I buy it when I am in New Mexico and Az.
Where are you getting cactus ears in October in NY?
You are scaring me!
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