Found prickly pear fruit in Reading Market today. L has always wanted to try to make something with them. She cut one up and we liked the flavor. Light and sweet, a texture like watermelon, with BB sized edible seeds. Since we had bought a bag of 7 for $1 and had plenty left, we decided to try to make an infusion with the remaining fruit.
When working with the fruit, be a bit careful. The ones at the stores have generally been scrubbed down to remove all of the very fine cactus spines. However, as L had discovered that morning at the market, not all of them get caught and she ended up having several stuck in her hands until we got home and could find the tweezers. :) So, start by scrubbing the fruit down to try to remove any remaining spines. Then, slice the ends off the prickly pear. Make a cut down the body of the fruit, and then peel the skin off. This should leave the pink center of the fruit. For our infusion, we cut the fruit into pieces ~3/4 inch cubes. Since the flavor of the prickly pear is very light, we chose to use Fris vodka since it has the least flavor and burn of the vodkas we had at the time.
375 ml Fris vodka
6 prickly pear fruits, peeled and cubed (~1.5 cups)
3.21.10 Taste test
This is coming along nicely. It will definitely need another round of infusion, but we didn't have time to get to Reading Market this weekend to pick up more prickly pears.
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