Prickly pear blended with lemonade to create an amazingly refreshing drink, perfect for a warm day in fall. Easy to make, this beverage is great for entertaining guests.
Isn’t the color to this prickly pear lemonade so pretty and vibrant? If you can’t already tell, I like my food to be colorful.
This drink is super easy to make too with just five ingredients and mint for garnish.
When I’m out grocery shopping, I always come across boxes filled with prickly pears. I figured I should take it as a sign, that it’s meant to be. So I bought a few.
I wasn’t sure at first what to do with it. But I didn’t think I could go wrong with making it into a beverage. So ta da! We now have prickly pear lemonade!
Prickly pears, if you haven’t encountered them before, are fruits from a cactus tree. They’re sweet (well, it depends on the individual fruit) and pink on the inside with a multicolored outer skin. Unfortunately, they have soo many seeds. It’s actually really annoying because it’s impossible to avoid the seeds. So how do people eat it? Sometimes they just swallow the seeds or spit them out after eating the fruit. The technique is pretty similar to eating pomegranates or guava. However, these seeds are much harder than the seeds of pomegranates or guava. Avoid biting into them. Otherwise, you’ll probably feel some pain.
But don’t worry. I have a way around this.
Make your lemonade, and add it to a blender. I used a Magic Bullet for convenience. Use a spoon to scoop the fruit with the seeds into the blender.
Blend the prickly pear with the lemonade for about 30 seconds. You’re not trying to pulverize the seeds. What you’re trying to do is separate the fruit from the seeds. So a quick whirl in the blender is perfect for that.
Pour the prickly pear lemonade through a fine mesh or a strainer to separate the seeds from the lemonade.
Pour the prickly pear lemonade into a glass with several ice cubes and serve cold.
Enjoy!
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Oh my…i must try this! the color is so lovely!
Thank you! Hope you’ll like it!
Thank you for liking “A Shadowy World.” I enjoyed this post because I do not think I have seen prickly pears before. I have heard of them, but I did not know they were such a bright pink color inside.
Honestly, I didn’t know either until I was experimenting with it =)
🙂
Prickly pear as a cash crop! WOW! They’re a noxious weed down here.(Seeing the colour of your resulting drink, I can now understand WHY they were used in the hope of establishing a cochineal dye industry.
It’s so interesting to see the differences in our countries! I remember that you once said that tilapia is a pest yet we eat it here. lol. And prickly pear is sold as fruit here but it’s a weed where you are. =)
Andrea: I always wanted to know what a Pricly Pear looked like. Im excited to use this recipe!
Hope you’ll like it! =)
How neat! I really want to try this! I hope I come across some prickly pears!
I hope you’ll find them too! =)
Wow this drink is beautiful! It looks amazing! Need to find some prickly pears now, just to make it!
I hope you’ll find the prickly pears! =)
Wow– I really want to try this!
If you get the chance to try it, I hope you’ll like it, Nicole!
Looks good and what a great colour. Who needs unnatural food dyes.
I agree!
Lemonade is my absolute favorite beverage and you’ve found a way to make it better.
I hope you’ll like this version =)
Im sure I will love it 🙂
Looks delicious!
Thanks!
You’re welcome! 🙂
Perfect idea, I am getting very thirsty just looking at it. I have prickly pear in my yard so have to try it!
Hope you’ll like them!