Prickly pears filled with cottage cheese and anchovies

Name: Filled prickly pears with cottage cheese and anchovies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 2 prickly pears (ripe (when they turn orange red they are ripe)); 150 gr cottage cheese; 5 anchovies; some mint leaves; white pepper (grounded)

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Prickly pears are sweet fruits with small seeds and give your dish a special exotic touch… definitely worth a try.

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 5

Total Time 15

Course Tapas, Starter

Cuisine Own recipe

Servings persons

Ingredients

2 prickly pears ripe (when they turn orange red they are ripe)
150 gr cottage cheese
5 anchovies
some mint leaves
white pepper grounded

Instructions

NOTE: Prickly pears grow on the cactus plant and they also have stingers. Often these are transparent spines. At harvest they are removed but some remain. I wipe each fig again with kitchen paper.
Halve the prickly pears lengthwise. Scrape out the flesh with a spoon. Let this drain. Collect the juice because this is super sweet and delicious to drink.
Cut 1 anchovy into very small pieces and mix with the cottage cheese. Finely chop 5 mint leaves and mix them with the cheese and the pulp of the prickly pear. Taste and season with a little white pepper if necessary.
Now fill the scraped half prickly pears with the mixture. Place a full anchovy on top and add an additional mint leaf for decoration.
As an extra seasoning, you can add a caper, according to your own taste.

Notes

Prickly pears, in Europe are a well-known fruit around the Mediterranean. Here they just grow along the road… The fruit is sweet but has small seeds that you can simply eat. Since living in southern Spain I have really learned to eat them and are therefore part of my Mediterranean diet…

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