Mexican
Ensalada de Nopales (Cactus Salad)
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Ensalada de Nopales (Cactus Salad) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side and the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Boil the diced nopales in salted water for 10 minutes until tender, then drain and rinse well to wash away their sliminess.
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Dice the tomato and onion.
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Toss the nopales with the tomato, onion, cilantro, and mexican oregano.
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Dress with the lime juice and salt.
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Scatter the crumbled queso fresco on top. Honestly rated: children resist the texture more than they resist any chile on this shelf.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Ensalada de Nopales (Cactus Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Ensalada de Nopales (Cactus Salad) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Calabacitas con Puerco (Squash with Pork) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 80 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 8 g
- Fat
- 4 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 250 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Ensalada de Nopales (Cactus Salad) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in spring, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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