From lenny's kitchen in Mexico.

Originally published on Cookpad Mexico as Ropa vieja con nopales, with US measurements.

Ropa Vieja with Nopales

Name: Ropa Vieja with Nopales
Total time: 4500 s
Yield: Serves 4 servings
Ingredients: 1.1 lbs shredded flank steak (500 grams); 4 cooked nopales (cactus paddles), diced; 2 potatoes, cut into pieces; 3 roasted tomatoes; 2 roasted garlic cloves; 1/2 roasted onion; 2 cups cooking broth (from the meat); 2 cooked guajillo chiles; Salt, to taste

lenny @cook_1102490

MEXICO

Shredded flank steak, nopales (cactus), and potatoes in sauce

This is my own version of the original Ropa Vieja, or just made with what I found in the fridge.

Shredded flank steak, nopales (cactus), and potatoes in sauce

This is my own version of the original Ropa Vieja, or just made with what I found in the fridge.

lenny @cook_1102490

MEXICO

Shredded flank steak, nopales (cactus), and potatoes in sauce

This is my own version of the original Ropa Vieja, or just made with what I found in the fridge.

Shredded flank steak, nopales (cactus), and potatoes in sauce

This is my own version of the original Ropa Vieja, or just made with what I found in the fridge.

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Ingredients

75 minutes

Serves 4 servings

1.1 lbsshredded flank steak (500 grams)
4cooked nopales (cactus paddles), diced
2potatoes, cut into pieces
3roasted tomatoes
2roasted garlic cloves
1/2roasted onion
2 cupscooking broth (from the meat)
2cooked guajillo chiles
Salt, to taste

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Steps

75 minutes

1

Cook the meat with a little garlic and onion in a pressure cooker.
2

Roast the tomatoes, chiles (don’t let them burn), garlic, and onion.
3

Shred the meat, peel and cut the potatoes.
4

Cook the diced nopales in a copper pot, or if you have a small piece of copper, add it to the pot to help remove the slime. Once cooked, rinse the nopales very well.
5

Soak the chiles in very hot water, then blend them with the roasted tomatoes, garlic, and onion. Pour this sauce into a clay pot if you have one, season with salt to taste, and add a little of the cooking broth so the potatoes can cook.
6

Add the nopales and shredded meat, and cook for about 10 minutes until the mixture is between dry and saucy. Serve with cooked white rice.