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How to skin a prickly pear without being killed by it
Okie, I'm cheating. This is not a recipe, but since is the right season for this incredible fruit here, I though about writing about it. Opuntias, prickly pears, or how we call them here 'Indian Figs' are a delicious fruit, coming from our southern regions, that are far hotter than the northern, where I live, where cacti would not be able to sprout anything, for sure.
This thing is juicy, sweet, its taste is sligtly similar to strawberries and vanilla, yet different... and I advice everyone to try it if you can!
Still, you will need a couple of advices if you have never tried one. Prickly pears are damn.. prickly. Se the dark dots? Those are coglomerates of small thorns that are damn irritating for the skin (yours). To skin a prickly pear, hold it where it has no thorns, cut off the 'head' and the 'bottom' and connect the two parts with another cut, then peel of the skin, that will easily detach from the inner fruit. Ready!
Pay attention, the fruit contains some very hard seeds... you don't need to spit it out, they're good for you belly, still, pay attention when you bite, ot they could hurt your teeth.
Nom! :9
This thing is juicy, sweet, its taste is sligtly similar to strawberries and vanilla, yet different... and I advice everyone to try it if you can!
Still, you will need a couple of advices if you have never tried one. Prickly pears are damn.. prickly. Se the dark dots? Those are coglomerates of small thorns that are damn irritating for the skin (yours). To skin a prickly pear, hold it where it has no thorns, cut off the 'head' and the 'bottom' and connect the two parts with another cut, then peel of the skin, that will easily detach from the inner fruit. Ready!
Pay attention, the fruit contains some very hard seeds... you don't need to spit it out, they're good for you belly, still, pay attention when you bite, ot they could hurt your teeth.
Nom! :9
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I have lots of PP around here, and when one starts growing in my front yard, I'll dig it up and transplant it into the back yard, where I have a row of them growing. Those little tufts of spines are just terrible, I would much rather get stuck by a single big needle than touch any of the smaller ones.
Actually, you can burn the spines off too, by passing the fruit back and forth carefully over a low flame on a stove or candle.
Pretty much have to take the skin off anyway, because the entire surface of the ones I know have hair fine spines everywhere, as well as the clusters.
Prickly pear were everywhere in Tucson when I lived there, and tasty if you handled them right.
(Had to skin them too- the burning trick just makes that easier.)
-Badger-
Pretty much have to take the skin off anyway, because the entire surface of the ones I know have hair fine spines everywhere, as well as the clusters.
Prickly pear were everywhere in Tucson when I lived there, and tasty if you handled them right.
(Had to skin them too- the burning trick just makes that easier.)
-Badger-
Awwww X3
I think the fruits we get in the markets are partially cleaned from the thorns, because they're just a bit irritating.., 'wild' ones must be far more annoying... I didn't know about the roasting trick. then again, where I live is definitely too cold to se an Opuntia, that is not a decorative one kept in the house in winter, make fruits
I think the fruits we get in the markets are partially cleaned from the thorns, because they're just a bit irritating.., 'wild' ones must be far more annoying... I didn't know about the roasting trick. then again, where I live is definitely too cold to se an Opuntia, that is not a decorative one kept in the house in winter, make fruits
Prima di tutto sono mezza siciliana e li mangio da...bhe da quando sono in grado di mangiare frutta, ho imparato a sbicciarli da quando avevo 5 anni. se vuoi evitare qualsiasi rischio ti basta usare una forchetta per tenerli mentre li peli :p. ADESSO MI HAI FATTO VENIRE VOGLIA ZIA!
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