Cactus Fruit Cocktails

Name: Cactus Fruit Cocktails
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 servings Ice; 1 Tbsp freshly squeezed lime juice; 4 prickly pears, peeled; 1 Tbsp sugar; 113 grams tequila; 43 grams triple sec

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Cactus Fruit Cocktails a try. Watching your figure? This gluten free and vegan recipe has 424 calories, 1g of protein, and 1g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 2. If you have tequila, triple sec, prickly pears, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Place the prickly pears in a blender and pulse until liquefied. Strain the juice into a small bowl (you should have about 1 cup of juice).

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Juice

Pear

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Blender

Bowl

Fill a large cocktail shaker with ice, add the prickly pear juice, tequila, triple sec, lime juice, and sugar and shake vigorously.

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Prickly Pear

Lime Juice

Triple Sec

Cocktail

Tequila

Juice

Shake

Sugar

Ice

Pour into glasses filled with ice, rimmed with salt or sugar, if you like.

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Sugar

Salt

Ice

Garnish with lime slices.

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Lime Slice

For a fancy party cocktail, combine some chipotle chile powder with your coarse-grained salt before rimming the glasses. The smoky, spicy salt will make a nice complement to the sweet, fruity drink.

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Chipotle Chiles

Cocktail

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Salt

From Quick & Easy Mexican Cooking: More Than 80 Everyday Recipes by Cecila Hae-Jin Lee. Text copyright © 2011 by Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee; plated food photographs copyright © 2011 by Leigh Beisch. Published by Chronicle Books LLC.