How to eat cactus When you buy a vegetable cactus, you should choose tender slices that grow for 15-35 days. The color is light green, with little or no thorns, the skin is shiny and wrinkle-free, and the palm size is appropriate. Tender slices can be stored for 15 days at room temperature, and can be kept fresh for 40 days in the refrigerator. Cooking cactus should first remove the small thorns, which can be easily removed by choosing a sharp thin kitchen knife; If the cactus is old, you can peel it properly, which will taste better. Special note: with good recipes and good cooking skills, you can't make delicious cactus dishes without pretreatment. Because there is more mucus in cactus, it will affect the shape and taste of the dish. After shredding and slicing, you can marinate it with salt first, 15 minutes later, rinse it with water, and then cook it. Another method is scalding it with a proper amount of baking soda and salt, which can also effectively reduce the mucus and sour taste secreted by the cut part of the palm, and the taste will be better. Cactus is suitable for cold salad, stir-frying and stuffing. It can also be stewed, or used as dessert or cold drink. Tips: It is worth noting that not all cacti can be eaten, and some wild cacti can't be eaten. Pay attention when buying. The vegetable cactus has a certain bitter taste, so before processing, peel off the skin and thorns, soak in light salt water 15 ~ 20 minutes or blanch with water, and then rinse with clear water to remove the bitter taste. Don't eat wild and ornamental cacti casually. They contain a certain amount of toxins and anesthetics, which not only have no therapeutic effect, but will lead to nerve paralysis. Cactus tastes bitter and cold, and has excellent effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Eating too much will cause diarrhea. People with weak spleen and stomach should eat less. Here are some recipes for you: (1) cactus salad Ingredients: cactus 300g, carrot 50g Accessories: sesame oil 20g, monosodium glutamate 2g, refined salt 4g and sugar 5g. Method: remove the prickles and shred the cactus, add salt and mix well; After ten minutes, remove the mucus with clear water, control the water, add shredded carrots, salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar and sesame oil and mix well. (2) Stewed ribs with cactus Ingredients: ribs 1000g, cactus 200g. Salt, soy sauce, cooking wine, pepper, aniseed, fennel, cardamom, cinnamon, onion, ginger, monosodium glutamate and sugar 5g each. Method: wash the ribs and cut them into pieces, add 3000 grams of water to the pot to boil, and then put the ribs into the pot; After boiling again, skim off the floating foam, add pepper, aniseed, onion ginger and cooking wine, and cover the pot. Simmer until it is 80% cooked, add cactus and proper amount of salt to taste, and pick out onions, ginger, peppers, aniseed, etc. And collect the juice. Sprinkle some cactus slices in the bowl before serving. (3) Shrimp cactus soup [raw materials] cactus 10g, salt, shrimp 30g, monosodium glutamate 1g, vermicelli 30g, sesame oil 5g, cucumber 10g and clear soup 300g. [Method] 1. Blanch the vermicelli in a boiling water pot, take it out and put it on a plate. Peel and puncture the cactus, wash and cut into pieces, and put it on a plate for later use. 2. Pour the clear soup into the pot, bring it to a boil, add shrimp, vermicelli, cactus and salt to cook, sprinkle with monosodium glutamate, pour in sesame oil and mix well, and put it into the soup basin. (4) Ingredients of cactus pie: 500g cactus, 400g pork and 500g flour. Accessories: salt 8g, monosodium glutamate 4g, soy sauce 10g, chopped green onion and small amount of Jiang Mo, sesame oil 10g, vegetable oil 25g and white pepper 2g. Method: Mix flour with water, chop pork, and add salt, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, chopped green onion, ginger, sesame oil, vegetable oil and white pepper. Chop the cactus, add a little salt, squeeze out the juice and mix it into the prepared meat. Bake into pie according to the conventional method. The key to production: chop the cactus, wrap it with bean wrap, and repeatedly squeeze the sticky juice. Squeeze as dry as possible. 1. There are several common ways to eat cactus (usage): ① Cut it into strips and eat it as fruit, one tablet a day; 2 juice as a drink, a small cup a day; ③ For food, please refer to cactus dish (1); 4 homemade palm tea: put some old cactus slices or fresh juice when boiling water, and pour it into a thermos or teapot after the foam disappears; ⑤ Juicing and bathing are very popular abroad; ⑥ Self-made palm pulp: peel cactus, remove thorns, wash and shred it, and paste it with a pulp machine. Add water or sugar, honey, milk powder and cereal according to your own preferences, and drink a cup before meals, which can detoxify, nourish the stomach, reduce blood fat and blood pressure. Often taking cactus pulp will have a miraculous effect; ⑦ Homemade steamed bread: Cactus can be made into steamed bread by beating and fermenting dough, or it can be made into steamed bread, which is fragrant and refreshing and rich in nutrition;