Nopales Tortite Recipe

The nopal apart from tasty is very nutritious and quite economical. They are one of those vegetables that we will always find in Mexican homes. In recipesgratis.net we give you the recipe so you can prepare nopal cakes that you can eat them alone or in Jitomate Caldillo.

Nopales pancake ingredients:

1. The first thing we are going to do is enlist all the ingredients for nopales pancakes.

2. Nopales are washed and sliced in thin strips. They are fried in little oil along with a little finely sliced onion. We add a little salt and cumin. They must be very dry, without any juice. We reserve.

3. We wash the spinach, disinfect and proceed to dry them. Then we fry them with a little oil, add the slice onion, salt and a pinch of cumin. That are cooked without any water.

Trick: spinach can be replaced by chard.

4. On the other hand, we cook the tomatoes together with the Cascabel Chile to which we will previously have removed the seeds and the tongue. We add a clove of garlic and a piece of onion to our cooking.

5. Once the tomato and chiles have cooked, let cool and proceed to liquefy them to prepare the caldillo.

6. We put a saucepan on the fire, we pour a splash of oil, strain our tomato preparation and let it continue to season. As soon as it breaks to boil, we add a pinch of ground cumin and salt to taste.

7. Whole eggs and place them in a bowl, in another container we put the nopales and spinach previously cooked, followed by the oatmeal and revolve perfectly. Finally, add the eggs and mix.

8. We place a pan over medium heat and fry the mixture of nopales putting portions of the size of a tablespoon. Once fried nopal pancakes, they are drained to eliminate excess oil. They are reserved apart.

9. Meanwhile, to the tomato caldillo that we leave in the fire we lower the flame and add the nopal pancakes. That they boil together between 5 and 10 minutes, we rectify salt and serve. If you want to know other options, do not miss the potato and chard pancakes.