Saguaro Fruit appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Saguaro fruit (bahidaj) · Tucson
Saguaro fruit is the seasonal magenta fruit of the saguaro cactus, harvested by the Tohono O'odham in June with long ribs and made into syrup and ceremonial wine.
The saguaro fruit (bahidaj in O'odham) is a Tohono O'odham sacred harvest, marking the O'odham new year. The fruit ripens at the top of the giant saguaro cactus and is harvested in late June using kuipad, long poles made from saguaro ribs. The harvested fruit is boiled into syrup or fermented into ceremonial nawait wine for the rain-summoning ceremony that marks the start of the monsoon. Mission Garden hosts ceremonial demonstrations of the harvest each June. The saguaro is also Arizona's state flower.
Where to eat in Tucson:
- BOCA Tacos y Tequila