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vegetablesmoky · sweet · roasted · silky · faintly hot

Piquillo pepper

Roasted over wood, peeled by hand, sold in a tin. The only pepper worth buying cooked.

on its own
1.0sour
3.0sweet
2.0savoury
0.0bitter
2.0umami
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1 of these 12 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

12 pairings for Piquillo pepper.

Garlic

classic

Confit it in the same oil the peppers sit in and use both.

Olive oil

common

They arrive dry from the tin. Oil is what makes them silky again.

Wood-roasted pepper sweetness cuts salt without introducing raw acid.

Egg

common

Sweet smoke folded into soft egg, salt at the end.

Manchego

common

Sheep salt against pepper sugar, both from the same hundred miles.

Fino sherry

uncommon

Flor salinity strips the sweetness back so you taste the char.

Squid

uncommon

Stuff it: the ink sauce clings where the pepper skin was peeled.

Hake

uncommon

Roasted sweetness and a little smoke, both without heat.

Lactic sourness fills the cavity and cuts the roast sugar cold.

Cocoa butter lactones over wood smoke; salt it or it reads as pudding.