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Nopales Salad Recipe

Ingredients:
Two lbs cleaned and diced nopales
One medium onion
three medium tomatoes, or one can diced tomatoes
One can of sweet corn
One can of Red Kidney and/or Garbanzo Beans
Two serrano Peppers
One bunch Cilantro
Lime juice to taste

Raw Nopales, cleaned and diced into 1/3 inch pieces
Mix with chopped onion, tomatoes, serrano peppers ( or substitute jalapenos) and cilantro.
Add a few drops of lime juice.
Serve as a side dish or with corn tortillas to make tacos or burritos

 

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These are our Grade C leaves
slice and dice them for the salad

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Here's some of the ingredients for the cactus salad
you can mix and match the ingredients depending
on the season and availability

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This the cactus salad mixed up.. in this case we did not add the beans and corn,
and we chose to cook it.
It is fine either raw or cooked.
If you cook it, you can use it as a base for stews.

 

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