 Finely diced nopal cactus pads, with tomatoes, green onions, and crumbled cheese | |
| Place of origin | Mexico |
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| Main ingredients | Nopal |
Nopalitos is a dish made with diced nopales, the naturally flat stems, called pads, of prickly pear cactus ( Opuntia ). They are sold fresh, bottled, or canned and less often dried. They have a light, slightly tart flavor, and a crisp, mucilaginous texture. [1] Nopalitos are often eaten with eggs as a breakfast and in salads and soups as lunch and dinner meals. [2]
Agaricus bisporus is an edible basidiomycete mushroom native to grasslands in Europe and North America. It has two color states while immature – white and brown – both of which have various names, with additional names for the mature state.
Nopal (from the Nahuatl word nohpalli[noʔˈpalːi] for the pads of the plant) is a common name in Spanish for Opuntia cacti, as well as for its pads.
Suribachi and Surikogi are a Japanese mortar and pestle. These mortars are used in Japanese cooking to crush different ingredients such as sesame seeds.
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Romeritos is a Mexican dish from Central Mexico, consisting of tender sprigs of seepweed which are boiled and served in a mole sauce seasoned with shrimp jerky blended into the mix. Typical additional ingredients include boiled potatoes, nopales and re-hydrated shrimp. They are usually served with patties of dried shrimp with bread slices and in tacos. They are traditionally enjoyed at Christmas and Lent.
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A mixiote is a traditional pit-barbecued meat dish in central Mexico; especially in the Basin of Mexico. It can also be prepared in an oven. It is usually made with mutton or rabbit, but chicken, lamb, and pork are also used. The meat is cubed with the bone and seasoned with pasilla and guajillo chili peppers, cumin, thyme, marjoram, bay leaves, cloves and garlic. It is then wrapped in small packages made of the tough semi-transparent outer skin of the leaves of the maguey or century plant, which gives it a unique flavor. Diced nopales are often included with the meat before wrapping.
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Ptitim is a type of toasted pasta shaped like rice grains, developed in Israel in the 1950s when rice was scarce. Outside Israel, it originally became known as "Ben-Gurion rice", though it is mainly called "ptitim" nowadays.
Opuntia, commonly called prickly pear, is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae. Prickly pears are also known as tuna (fruit), sabra, nopal from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit; or paddle cactus. The genus is named for the Ancient Greek city of Opus, where, according to Theophrastus, an edible plant grew and could be propagated by rooting its leaves. The most common culinary species is the Indian fig opuntia.
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Los Nopalitos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Webb County, Texas, United States. This was a new CDP for the 2010 census with a population of 62.
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