Home Made Prickly Pear Juice

[Wyatt Burp]

We got a good crop of prickly pear fruit this year. Yesterday I picked a little less than the amount shown in this picture to fill that tupperware container. It's a lot of work because I use a blender then slowly strain the zillion seeds. The seeds are so small they jam up a juicer. I drink it adding nothing except Tobasco. Will try adding Vodka. I'll blend habanero peppers with the next batch to heat it up. We also make salsa from the cactus "pedals".

 

[DumpStick]

I've had prickly pear jelly, never tried the juice. We've got lots of that cactus around here, it grows everywhere. I need to try some of the juice.

 

[tops]

The jelly is super good. If the juice is half as good as the jelly I can understand why you like it. Larry

 

[Rustyt1953]

That is one of the few things that I have not encountered. I am very epicurious and would love to try it.

 

[soFlaNative]

That is one of the few things that I have not encountered. I am very epicurious and would love to try it.

Puts hair on your chest...

 

[Onomea]

You might try a slow juicer...

My wife has gotten into making healthy drinks for me. I have learned there are blenders, which we all know; juicers, which are what people have been using in recent years to make healthy drinks of vegetables and fruit; and more recently slow juicers which, while they take longer, extract more from the vegetables and fruit.

Mechanically, these work quite well. Use lemons and apples to mask the taste of stuff like carrots.

 

[Old TexMex]

Long long ago... we made prickly pear wine. We pressed the juice out of the tunas ( that's the Mexican word for them) with a hydraulic jack and a 2ft piece of 12" thick wall pipe. Seems like we drank way more beer making the wine than we produced...six gallons.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

The Prickly Pear drink at Salata is pretty good.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

A strainer with a coffee filter in it, is a low tech way to easily remove small particulates in thick liquid. We strain a number of things this way.

Ivan