How to Eat Nopales, the Nutritious Cactus Paddles You Can Enjoy Raw or Cooked A staple vegetable throughout Mexico, these spiky pads have a unique texture and flavor—and limitless culinary ...

This week we cook up four nopal (cactus) recipes that go beyond the traditional Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes we love in South Texas. Paul Stephen is a food writer for the Express-News. He can be ...

Every Thursday on the Good Food Blog we share a recipe from our archives. Gustavo Arelleno is the editor of the OC Weekly and host of KCRW’s “Orange County Line.” He first shared this recipe for ...

Here, nopales are in every Latino market, and sometimes they show up at farmers markets and well-stocked grocery stores. The paddles are sold whole, or you can find them cleaned of their spines ...

How to cook with cactus paddles, plus a recipe for chile verde with pork and nopales Chile verde with pork and nopales.

Fill medium-sized stock pot with water and add 1 whole garlic clove, unchopped half onion, pinch of oregano, chile pods, vinegar, peppercorns, and salt to taste, and bring to a simmer. Add nopales ...

How to make nopales Cactus might look intimidating, but once you learn how to clean and cook it to make nopales, you’ll be looking for ways to incorporate this nutritional powerhouse into more ...

I love trying other people's favorite foods, such as a reader's recipe for pork-and-hominy stew called pozole that includes nopales.

What: The sixth annual Festival del Nopal will feature food, dance and live music in celebration of nopales, a cactus and staple of Mexican cuisine. The event will also features a nopal recipe ...

Local Flavor Gives Back: Clarks Summit plant-based cook shares Mexican heritage and plant-based cooking tips with Nopal Taco recipe GIA MAZUR / STAFF PHOTO Empowered Eating at the Greenhouse ...

How to Eat Nopales Nopales can be used in sides and mains, toppings, drinks, and desserts. "Nopales are also very good at soaking up any flavor you introduce them to," Roszkowski notes.