Prepared nopal cactus salad in a market in Tlalpan - Mexico City, Mexico (Sergio Mendoza Hochmann / Getty Images) If you’re new to cooking with nopales, it should be noted that they release a ...

Try these steps to peel and cook them. If your heritage is Mexican, you already know about nopales - the pads of opuntia ficus-indica, the prickly pear cactus. This species also produces the spiny ...

If you've never tried nopales (cactus paddles), they’re packed with nutrients and have a slightly tangy, fresh taste that pairs beautifully with seasoned tofu. 💚 Why You’ll Love This Recipe ...

While these spiny cactus paddles are staples in Mexican cooking, their uses are endless and go beyond one particular cuisine.

I could have opened up a glue factory for the papier-mache workers down the street. I didn't cook cactus again for many years. Fast-forward to a new millennium, and I not only found out that I ...

We have the recipes to prove it. Joshua Schwencke shared a recipe for a Thai-inspired curry that gives cactus top billing. “I treat it like any other stocky green vegetable like broccoli ...

In addition to cooking with cactus, there are new food products using the prickly plant, too, like Vanessa Hudgens’s new cactus water. Saldivar began offering cactus products in 2019 at Tia Lupita.