Pimientos de Padrón

Pimientos de Padrón : flowers and fruits

Harvested Pimientos de Padrón

Fried pimientos de padrón

Pimientos de Padrón on pinchos with Spanish Serrano ham

Pimientos de Padrón ( Galician : Pementos de Padrón ) are typical peppers that are grown in the area around Padrón in Galicia / Spain . At the same time, the name denotes a regional dish prepared from it, which is now common throughout Spain.

These are the unripe green fruits of a certain variety of capsicum annuum pepper , roughly the size of a jalapeño . After the discovery of America, peppers came to Spain, including Padrón, and were propagated there. The variety changed over the years and became what is now known as Pimientos de Padrón. The different degrees of sharpness of the individual fruits are typical of the variety. A Galician proverb reads: "Peppers from Padrón: some hot, some not." ( Galician " os pementos de Padrón, uns pican e outros non "). The content of capsaicin and capsaicinoids can be influenced by the fertilization.

In Padrón, around 15,000 kg of peppers are harvested between June and September each year, most of them in a valley in the Herbón district. The first Festa do Pemento de Padrón was organized there in 1979 , a popular gastronomic event that has been held annually on the first Sunday in August in the “carballeira” of the Franciscan monastery of Herbón. The Franciscans were also the ones in the 16th century, the first seeds of Mexico brought to Padrón and adapted the plant to the oceanic climate of the valley.

For the dish, the pimientos are fried in olive oil and sprinkled with coarse sea salt (hail salt). It is served as an entree or tapa .

Individual evidence

↑ B. Estrada, F. Pomar, F. Merino and MA Bernal: Efecto de la fertilización en el nivel de capsicinoides en los frutos de pimiento de Padrón durante el desarrollo. in Libro de resúmenes , Sociedad Española de Fisiología Vegetal. (Reunión Sociedad Española de Fisiología Vegetal, Sociedad Portuguesa e Fisiología Vegetal), Universidad de Sevilla (1999).

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Padron (SantiagoTurismo). Retrieved January 11, 2009 .
1,001 Foods to Die For , Madison Books, Andrews McMeel Publishing (2007), p. 77

Web links

Commons : Pimientos de Padrón - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Pemento de HERBON , Consello Regulador da Denominación de Orixe Protexida.
www.essen-und-trinken.de recipe

[1] B. Estrada, F. Pomar, F. Merino and MA Bernal: Efecto de la fertilización en el nivel de capsicinoides en los frutos de pimiento de Padrón durante el desarrollo. in Libro de resúmenes , Sociedad Española de Fisiología Vegetal. (Reunión Sociedad Española de Fisiología Vegetal, Sociedad Portuguesa e Fisiología Vegetal), Universidad de Sevilla (1999).