How To Cook Padron Peppers | Recipe - video Dailymotion

Here's how to cook padron peppers by the head chef of London tapas restaurant The Salt Yard.

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00:00 Hi my name is Joe, I'm the head chef at Salt Yard Restaurant and today I'm going to be showing you

00:03 how to do the perfect Padron pepper. Padron peppers are traditionally Spanish tapas. They are

00:14 very commonly used at the very beginning of a meal and I'm going to show you how to cook them

00:19 at home. So the first thing to do is take a handful of peppers and coat them in oil.

00:28 You need to heavily season them with rock salt. It's really important you use the Maldon sea salt

00:38 or a really nice flaked salt. You want to taste the salt while you're eating the peppers and

00:43 the seasoning and flavour of the rock salt is so much better than table salt.

00:46 A little sprinkle of pepper and mix it together with your hands

00:56 and then they're ready to fry. The trick with Padrons is to make sure the pan is as

00:59 hot as it possibly can be, making sure the oil is smoking and then we add the Padrons in.

01:05 Once the Padrons are blistered and burnt around the outside and slightly soft to touch,

01:24 we're ready to go. Be careful because they do split in the pan and will spit at you.

01:30 I'm going to take them from here

01:33 and just the last thing to do, season it with a little bit of salt

01:52 and there we have it, Padron peppers.