Charred Shishito Peppers
This recipe is dead simple and and so much more than the sum of its parts. Hold your nerve and really blacken the peppers.
Ingredients
1 qt shishito or padron peppers
1/2 tsp chili flakes
1/4 C neutral oil
2 T sunflower seeds
Method
- Heat a frying pan and toast the chili flakes
- Remove from heat and add the oil, set aside and allow to steep for min 10 minutes
- Roughly chop the sunflower seeds and season with a pinch of salt
- Heat a large frying pan until smoking hot, add a glug of neutral oil and blister peppers until well charred (be careful they spit!)
- Flip and char the other side and season with salt
- To serve, drizzle with the chili oil and sunflower seeds
