How To Cook Padron Peppers

Warm some oil in a skillet frying pan until it is almost smoking hot.

How to cook padron peppers. Add the peppers and fry over a medium heat for about 4 5 minutes stirring them or shaking the pan if you re less clumsy than me every once in a while until you see that the skin of the peppers blisters and they appear to be shrinking the bag said something like gentle heat for about 3 4 minutes but i don t agree a gentle heat isn t enough. Heat the olive oil in a pan at high heat until it starts smoking lightly. Pictured below this list cut them and cook them in a. Pimentons de padron are a traditional tapas treat from the galicia region of spain.

After about a minute start to turn them with your tongs and keep cooking and turning them every minute or so until they are mostly browned and blistered some black spots are fine and going limp. Cook the peppers too slowly or at lower heat and they tend to wilt and become too soft before they develop charred spots. Rinse and dry the peppers. Remove the peppers and place them on a plate.

Add the peppers and cook tossing occasionally until the skin starts to blister and soften. I start by first heating the oil to its smoke point in a cast iron skillet and then add the peppers in a single layer cooking them without moving for a good 30 seconds until they re deeply blistered and charred. Serve with dips or as part of a tapas spread. Sprinkle generously with sea salt.

This way you get simultaneous charring on the top and bottoms and a lot less smoke. Personally i prefer roasting the peppers in a scorching hot skillet under the broiler. Transfer the peppers to a serving plate and season with some sea salt. Method heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over a high heat.

Pictured grill basket above. Check out the best way to cook them. Note those are shishito peppers cooking in the grill basket blister the peppers with garlic and oil over high heat in a cast iron pan. A few tosses and in less than two minutes they re ready to come out.

Add the peppers in a single layer and cook a couple minutes either side until they become slightly shriveled and brown in patches. Cook and stir the peppers until the skin is brown and blistered. Ways to cook padron peppers. Instructions add olive oil to a hot frying pan when the oil is hot and shimmering add the peppers.

Remove the peppers from the pan place on a plate and sprinkle with sea salt to taste. Oft times the peppers will dance and jiggle just like the water did.