Nopalitos is a dish made with diced

nopal Nopal (from the Nahuatl word for the pads of the plant) is a common name in Spanish for ''Opuntia'' cacti (commonly referred to in English as ''prickly pear''), as well as for its pads. There are about 114 known species in Mexico, where it i ...

es, 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 Mucilage is a thick, gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms. These microorganisms include protists which use it for their locomotion. The direction of their movement is always opposite to that of the secretion of ...

texture. Nopalitos are often eaten with

egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the a ...

s as a breakfast and in salads and soups as lunch and dinner meals.

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Salads Mexican soups {{mexico-cuisine-stub es:Nopal#Gastronomia

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