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Technique of Preparing Nopales Recipe
Technique of Preparing Nopales Recipe-November 2024
Nov 17, 2025 9:47 AM

  

Ingredients

  

Step 1

Lay the nopal paddle on a flat surface. With a sharp knife, trim the base of the paddle.

  

Step 2

Trim around the outside edge of the paddle with the tip of the knife.

  

Step 3

Carefully slice the thorny nods from the trimmed nopal paddle.

  

Step 4

Clean nopal cactus paddle in water.

  

Step 5

Cut the cleaned cactus paddle into 1/2-inch slices, widthwise, or diagonally across the paddle.

  Santa Fe School of Cooking: Flavors of the Southwest © 2006 Susan Curtis and Nicole Curtis Ammerman. Reprinted with permission by Gibbs Smith, Publisher. All rights reserved.

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