Where do they come from and how do you cook with them? A nopal is a cactus with wide, flat paddles called nopales and fruit called prickly pears. Although the cacti are native to the Americas ...

The prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) is the fruit of the Opuntia cactus, also called nopal cactus. In botanical terms, the small, plump prickly pear is, in fact, a berry, measuring 2 to 5 ...