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Originally Posted by M.A.R.
Bingo!!! Reese there's you lunch!!!!
You don't have to peel it, just scrape it and cut into strips and sautee, as veggie side dish along with some grilled steak strips, pico de gallo and tortillas.
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Lots of Mexicans where I live!! (Which means lots of nopales around.)
I had nopales for the first time in salad. I don't care for it, but it is another vegetable and it is a shame that Dominicans have not learned to eat it. The use of nopales in Mexico goes back to precolombian times. Mexicans use the tender leaves, not the old ones.
Tuna is the name of the nopal fruit, which I have eaten, as well. (It takes getting used to it.)
A bit of history: Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City) was the name the Aztecs gave to the capital of their great empire. The name means
the place of the fruit of the prickly pear cactus. The Mexican flag has in its center an eagle perched on a cactus branch.
(Our supermarkets carry nopal leaves and fruits.)
Norma