How to Harvest and Clean Prickly Pear Pads 

You can also use a peeler, works great for us.

They are the only thing that takes away the pain of a spider bite!!! Just take the insides and rub it on the bite.

The slime falls off once you boil them. Red pepper, onions, cumin and fry them with eggs. Thats the best.

I have two medium sized Oputia ficus-indica on my property and I'm learning how to safely harvest and prepare them. Good for your glucose levels.

It's a tropical plant, in Pakistan there are many local varieties of the plant in our villages. I ate it's fruit in childhood when we went to school. It's hard to pick and clean, we used a shaving blade for that. It's very delicious. But we never used it's pad to eat. We think its not for cooking or eat.

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

Hi Carolyn, just found you here. Went to your blog but didn't find anything as I'm looking for Raw Recipe's for the Nopal Cactus

We eat a lot of these in mexican dishes

How to preserve for winter use?? Can they be put in a freezer or process in a canner?

Thanks for the video. Very useful.

Thank you so very much! Very helpful!

I burn the thorns over a flame and then clean with a knife.

Wow, wish to have some of those pads for medicinal porposes.

THANKS !

thanks for video. nice smile. respect from malta

Tiny niddle-like just won't do it I often wondered how native actually managed to clean this things

That’s so cool!!!

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How many days does it take to fruit?

What color of the fruit it bears?

What do they taste like?

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