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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This is a new one on me but just look at that color! Wow! 🙂
I know! I love the color =)
This looks and sounds so amazing! Prickly pear and mint just made it onto this week’s grocery list lol. Thank you for sharing, I hope your week is off to a great start!
I hope you’ll like this version of lemonade! Have a great week =)
Looks delicious! 🙂
Thanks!
This is REAL art! 🙂
Thanks! =)
You are very good girl!
We went to Arizona last spring, and discovered prickly pear everything! It’s lovely! I can’t wait to try this!
Hope you’ll like it =)
Thanks for this recipe. There’s a lot of cactus growing wild in my backyard. I’ve tried eating the pads a few times, with not much success since this area is experiencing drought and so the cactus pads are very small and the spines very large and numerous! I haven’t tried eating the actual fruits yet, and you’ve inspired me to harvest a few and experiment.
I don’t know much about harvesting the fruit, but I’ve heard that the fruits have thorns/spines too. It’s just that since I bought it from the market, it’s already been removed.
Thanks for this info Andreal. I hope to do some foraging within the next couple of days, I’ll let you know what happens.
Beautiful and I have an abundant supply of prickly pear here in AZ!
Hope you’ll like it!
this sounds delicious and looks so beautiful! I’ve never encountered prickly pears in the grocery stores here, but I’ll definitely going to keep my eyes open to see if they turn up at some point!
Good luck finding it =)
oh this looks delicious. i’ve never had prickly pear before so i’ll have to give this a go! =)
Hope you’ll like it, Lauren!
Ooo I love it! I actually never had prickly pears, but they sound delicious!! 🙂
I hope you’ll like it, Martina!