NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with food writer Maria Melendez Ayala about nopales, edible cactus plants that are a staple in Mexican cuisine. People across the country are out grilling this weekend. And ...

Don’t let the spines of nopales intimidate you. Try these steps to peel and cook them. If your heritage is Mexican, you already know about nopales - the pads of opuntia ficus-indica, the prickly pear ...

My grandmother used to prepare nopales with our breakfast, cooked into scrambled eggs and served over a crispy tortilla. Today, my favorite way to prepare nopales is in a salad with tomatoes, onions ...

SANTA CRUZ — While practically everyone in Margaret Sandoval”s family knows how to clean nopales, she lets her husband Jesus Sandoval take over scraping the spines off the vegetable from the prickly ...

Other people sometimes prepare nopales with little pieces of chicken and green beans, and on the side, some pasta, like Alfredo or fideo. I think there's an infinity of plates where people use nopales ...

People across the country are out grilling this weekend. And if you are looking to include some veggies in your barbecue platter, consider nopales. The rounded spiny cactus, mother to the prickly pear ...