Prickly Pear Margarita

Pink with prickly pear? It sounds like a drink meant for cowgirls! A prickly pear is the “fruit” of a prickly pear cactus. Don’t let the prickles scare you, when ripe, the fruit has a juicy and soft inside that you can cook with or make drinks with! It is sweet and has been described...

Early fall brings the ripening of brilliant garnet prickly pears (tunas), festooned along the top rims of the Southwest’s ubiquitous prickly pear cacti like so many fiery Christmas lights. Alas, it’s not the big spiky thorns protruding from the nopales (the big green paddle-shaped leaves) that’ll gitcha, it’s the tiny hairlike glochids (the near-invisible barbed...

The preferred after-photo shoot libation of Cowgirl editors, this prickly pear margarita is refreshing, sourced from our beloved southwestern desert, and just sweet enough. PRICKLY PEAR MARGARITA Yields 2 drinks Ingredients: 2 ounces tequila blanco 2 ounces prickly pear juice, or syrup ½ ounce triple sec, plus 1 tablespoon to coat the rim of the...