Nopales with egg and tomatoes

Nopal is a a kind of Mexican cactus which is very nutritious. Today we used my mother's traditional recipe and cooked it with green tomatoes, red tomatoes, onion, coriander, cayenne pepper, and 1 egg.

Chop both nopales and green tomatoes in small squares and cook them with some oil for 45 minutes, until the nopal sap (which looks like drool) evaporates.

Chop red tomatoes and onion in small squares and cook them with oil in another pan for about 20 minutes.


Chop the coriander without the stem and add it to the red tomatoes. Add also some salt, pepper and cayenne pepper.

When most of the nopal sap has evaporated, mix everything together. At the end, add the egg, mix and serve with avocado.