Everyone must be familiar with cactus. Many friends who want their desktop to be a little green, but who are really not easy to grow plants, will also choose to raise cactus. In short, they water it once a month, or every 2 months. After watering once, drought-tolerant flowers and plants like cactus will still stay green. Just be careful when raising cactus. Flowers and plants with hard thorns on their surface are not easy to mess with. If you accidentally encounter them with your hands, you will be pricked by these cactus leaves that turn into needles.
However, even if the surface of the cactus is covered with hard thorns, everyone can still regard it as a special delicacy. In addition to Mexicans, we Chinese can also treat cactus as table delicacies. In the Yunnan region of China, there are a group of people who like the taste of cactus, but the food they eat is not this big and big. The thin prickly pear is actually a small round prickly pear.
How should you eat prickly pear? If you look at the cactus in Yunnan, you will be impressed by the imagination of Yunnan people. Yunnan has a very advantageous geographical location. You can fly in the sky, swim in the water, and run on the ground. Because the natural environment is very well protected, people and nature live in harmony. Therefore, in Yunnan, you can find a variety of wild microorganisms. , including a very special cactus.
The surface of this type of cactus is white, with many small protruding thorns on the surface. Just like ordinary cactus, if you accidentally press the doorknob onto this spherical cactus, the palm of your hand will definitely be swollen. The thorns sting hard, and there are many small thorns that are difficult to pick out. They are hidden in the flesh and make people uncomfortable for most of the day. If you want to pick this little prickly pear, it is recommended to wear gloves during the operation, otherwise it will hurt for three days after eating a prickly pear.
When eating a cactus, you must first use a knife to cut off the long thorny skin on the surface of the cactus, so these small thorns are deeply embedded in the cactus. Make sure that the small thorns have been completely peeled off and remove as many as possible. Some meat is okay, after all, no one wants to eat little cactus spines down their throat. The prickly pear with its skin removed will be green inside. At this time, you only need to wash the prickly pear with warm water and you can eat it.
Are these prickly pears delicious? The answer is delicious food. The green prickly pear tastes sweet and has a faint fragrance, and it does not have fruit seeds like fresh fruit. Just cut a few cactus at one time and take a bite. The juice of the cactus flows in your mouth, and the effect of quenching thirst is great. If you like a sweeter aroma, you can keep the cactus. After a while, the color of the cactus can change to light yellow. When you eat it again, it will be sweeter and more delicious.
Of course, this type of prickly pear can only be found in the mountains of Yunnan, and must be eaten as fresh fruit in Yunnan. We usually raise prickly pear and cannot eat it, because prickly pear contains endotoxins. Different species of cactus have different endotoxins. If you go to Yunnan and want to taste this kind of prickly pear, you must take it under the guidance of the local people, but don't do anything.