Pimientos de Padrón

Name: Pimientos de Padrón
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 250g Padrón peppers; 3 tbsp olive oil; Flaky sea salt

Pementos de Padrón/pee-mee-EN-tos deh pah-DRON/

Also known as: Pimientos de Padron, Padron Peppers, Pementos de Padron

About this dish

Small green peppers blistered in hot olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt; most are mild, but the odd one is fiery.

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Ingredients

🫑250g Padrón peppers

🫒3 tbsp olive oil

🧂Flaky sea salt

Method

Serves 2

Heat the olive oil in a frying pan until shimmering.

Add the peppers in a single layer.

Fry, turning, for 3–4 minutes until blistered and slightly softened.

Drain briefly on paper.

Sprinkle generously with flaky salt and serve hot, eating them by the stalk.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

From Padrón in Galicia, where the saying goes 'unos pican e outros non' ('some are hot and some are not').

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