Free Recipe Cactus Salad
Recipe Type: Free Misc Recipes
Recipe Preparation: broil
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 1
Ingredients for Cactus Salad Recipe
1-1/2 lb Fresh or prepared cactus
-paddles or nopale; needles
-removed
3/4 c Olive oil
1-1/2 ts Salt
4 Italian Roma tomatoes,
-cored, seeded and cut into
-1/4 dice
1/2 sm Red onion, cut into; 1/4
-dice
2 md Serrano chiles, stemmed,
-seeded and; finely diced
2 bn Cilantro, leaves only,;
-chopped
1/2 c Finely grated Cotija or
-Anejo cheese
1/2 c Red wine vinegar
1 ts Freshly ground black pepper
6 Lettuce leaves
1 Avocado, peeled, seeded and;
-sliced for garnish
1/4 c Cracked black pepper
-garnish,; recipe follows
Cactus Salad Preparation
Preheat grill or broiler. Place cactus paddles in a bowl and toss with 1/4 cup of the olive oil and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt. Grill or broil the paddles until grill marks appear on each side, or they turn dark green with black patches, about 3 to 5 minutes. Set aside to cool to room temperature. Cover and chill 2 to 4 hours or overnight. Cut cactus into 1/2-inch pieces. In a large bowl, combine the cactus, tomatoes, onions, chiles, cilantro and cheese with the remaining 1/2 cup oil, the vinegar, the remaining 1 teaspoon salt and pepper. Toss well. Serve on plates lined with lettuce leaves, and garnish with avocado slices sprinkled with cracked pepper garnish. Recipe By :TOO HOT TAMALES SHOW #TH6118 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #316 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:02:26 -0500 From: Meg Antczak <meginny@frontiernet.net>
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