Spanish cuisine · Vegetable Dishes

Pimientos de Padrón

Small green peppers fried in olive oil with coarse salt – some are hot, some are not.

Ingredients · for 4 servings

• 500 g Padrón peppers
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• Coarse sea salt

Instructions

1. Wash the peppers and pat them thoroughly dry.
2. Heat the olive oil in a pan until very hot.
3. Fry the peppers for 4–5 minutes, tossing, until the skins blister and collapse.
4. Drain on kitchen paper, sprinkle generously with coarse salt and serve at once.