To make prickly pear, the first thing you need to do is make a prickly pear syrup. This recipe for prickly pear syrup is easy to make and use for margaritas, lemonade, sweet tea, or cocktails.

For 1 ¼ cup of syrup, you need: 10 prickly pears cut in half, ½ cup raw cane sugar, zest and juice of 1 lemon, and ¼ teaspoon kosher salt.

1. Use a spoon to scoop out the flesh of the prickly pears, place in a medium saucepot. Add the sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and salt. Cover pears with water, turn on the heat to medium-high, bring to a boil, cook for 10 minutes. Over a bowl, press flesh of prickly pears, through a fine-mesh strainer, discard seeds. Add strained juice back to the saucepot.
2. Bring to a boil, and cook until syrup thickens slightly about 25 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a container.
3. Rub the lime around each glass’s rim, place salt on a plate, and roll the rim in salt. In each glass, add crushed ice, ½ juice of a lime, 2 oz. tequila, ½ oz. triple sec and ½ oz. prickly pear syrup.