Harvest Prickly Pear Pads for Nopalitos
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Carlos Monteros shows how to pull off a prickly pear cactus pad (nopal) for recipes.
Carlos Monteros shows how to pull off a prickly pear cactus pad (nopal) and prep for recipes. Sauté with eggs, boil, or eat fresh in a nopalito salad! To create more plants, simply dry the nopal for a few days and plant in a gritty, well-drained soil mix for cactus/succulents.
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Harvest Prickly Pear Pads for Nopalitos
Clip: Season 27 | 53sVideo has Closed Captions
Carlos Monteros shows how to pull off a prickly pear cactus pad (nopal) and prep for recipes. Sauté with eggs, boil, or eat fresh in a nopalito salad! To create more plants, simply dry the nopal for a few days and plant in a gritty, well-drained soil mix for cactus/succulents.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipSo I usually get something with that's a little bit more tender.
But this is a good and then I can just I just twist it off.
This nopal I actually got it from, uh, from a Mexican supermarket, if you want to.
I just got it from a Mexican supermarket.
You just let it dry for maybe a couple of weeks and you put it in dirt and that's what I got.
And then how you harvest it is you just start going like that.
You see that?
But my knife isn't as sharp.
I like to eat nopales with eggs.
Super good.
You can either saute them or boil them as well.
You can actually make a nopalito salad and that's super easy.
So that's what I basically do.
And then the other side and then just clean it, rinse it and basically eat it after you boil it.
You can even eat it raw, honestly.
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