Nopali Salad
From darmorrow 17 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 1
This is a nice simple salad made the nopali cactus. It's sold here in San Miguel (where I am vacationing) everywhere. How you prepare it depends on whom you ask. Some people say it must be cooked and others say it's great raw. Read more What it's really great for is lowering cholesterol and maybe hepful in controling diabetes. See less
Ingredients
- Nopali paddles shopping list
- onions shopping list
- tomatoes shopping list
- cilantro (not too much) shopping list
- oregano shopping list
- pepper shopping list
- olive oil shopping list
- balsamic vinegar shopping list
- freshly grated parmesan cheese shopping list
How to make it
- Boil about a cup of large chunks of nopali cactus per person for about 10 minutes. Some people prefer to boil the paddles and then chop them up.
- Rinse well.
- While the nopalis are cooking chop the onions finely and coarsley chop chunks of tomatoes. Add the amount to suit your taste.
- Mix the cooled chunks of nopali with the above.
- Add oregano, fresh finely chopped cilantro, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well.
- Add the balsalmic vinegar and olive oil and toss.
- Sprinkle with freshly grated parmesan cheese and serve.
- Some people like to cool it in the refrigerator for an hour or so.
- Enjoy. :-)
- The Nopali paddles have 14 calories per cup, very low in sodium and no fat.
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