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Delicious Ways to Enjoy Prickly Pears This Season

Updated: May 20, 2025

Prickly Pear is one of our favourite fruit that you can easily find at farmers' markets and weekly bazaars. Here are some ideas for you on how to use this delicious fruit.



Oldies but Goldie's... Who Can Say No to a Slice of Pie?

Perfect combination of prickly pear and lemon meringue. Check this recipe out from Food & Home..


Prickly Pear and Lemon Meringue Pie

Serves: 6 Cooking Time: 50 mins + extra for setting


Ingredients:

  • 250g coconut biscuits

  • 100g unsalted butter, melted

  • 1 x 385g tin condensed milk

  • 125ml (½ cup) lemon juice

  • 4 large yolks

  • zest of 1 lemon

  • 125ml (½ cup) prickly pear purée, strained

  • 3 large egg whites

  • 100g castor sugar


Directions:

  • Lightly grease a 20cm loose-bottom cake tin.

  • Process the biscuits in a food processor until they resemble breadcrumbs. Stir in the butter.

  • To form the crust of the pie, press the biscuit mixture evenly over the base of the cake tin and about 3cm up the sides of the tin. Place it in the fridge while you prepare the filling, for about 1 hour.

  • Preheat the oven to 160°C.

  • Whisk condensed milk, juice, yolks and lemon zest together. Stir in the strained prickly pear purée and pour it over the biscuit base.

  • Bake for 15 minutes and remove from the oven.

  • Allow the tart to cool for 15 – 20 minutes. Whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form. Add the sugar in two batches and whisk until it is thick and shiny.

  • Pipe or add spoonfuls of meringue onto prepared pie and bake until meringue is golden brown, about 10 – 12 minutes.

  • Cool completely before serving.


*Recipe by Food & Home


Photography by Rebecca Sanbria


This Senorita Needs a Margarita!


Let's be honest! We all love margarita. Here is a phenomenal Prickly Pear Margarita recipe from Tiffani Thiessen.


Prickly Pear Margaritas

Serves 10


Ingredients:

  • Coarse pink salt, for rimming glasses

  • 1 lime wedge

  • 3 cups freshly squeezed lime juice

  • 3 cups silver tequila

  • 2 cups prickly pear syrup

  • 1 cup orange liqueur, such as triple sec


Directions:

  • In a small, shallow plate, add the pink salt. Rub the rims of 10 margarita glasses with the lime wedge and then dip the rims into the salt.

  • Fill a pitcher with ice, then add the lime juice, tequila, prickly pear syrup and orange liqueur. Stir, then strain into the prepared glasses.

*Recipe courtesy of Tiffani Thiessen

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