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Nopalitos and Huevos Rancheros Ingredients: Prickly pear pads (1 small pad per person) Eggs Butter Salt and pepper Picante sauce Preparation: After preparing the nopalitos, saute them in butter. Fry your eggs, sunny-side up, with salt and pepper to taste. Serve the eggs topped with picante sauce, the nopalitos on the side. Or saute the nopalitos with chopped onions and tomatoes, simmering them until well cookeed. Then stir in beaten eggs, and cook as you would scrambled eggs or an omelet. Nopalitos taste pleasantly sour and contain generous amounts of vitamin A and calcium. The interior of the pad is mucilaginous, yielding a slippery vegetable that's a bit difficult to get hold of with a fork. Try eating your huevos rancheros Mexican style, scooping them up with a tortilla or a piece of bread. |
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