Etymologies
- From Spanish piquillo (Wiktionary)
Examples
“After the chorizo came blood sausage, piled high on toast and topped with a red pepper called piquillo that had been roasted and peeled.”
“Out came a tiny plate of chickpeas, lightly fried with something called piquillo pepper ketchup, a sweet red pepper that I have never had in my life.”
“Popular dishes include piquillo peppers stuffed with goat cheese, calamari with pear and lemon confit, and roasted lamb served three ways.”
“Lori Eanes for The Wall Street Journal Popular dishes at Piperade include piquillo peppers stuffed with goat cheese.”
“Created by Patxi Zabaleta, a member who worked as a professional cook, the soup was a fine purée of white beans and piquillo peppers—as smooth and surprising and pleasurable as my Arzak aperitif.”
“At Hog & Rocks, a San Francisco bar that specializes in oysters and aged hams, chef Scott Youkilis marries Spanish and Southern flavors in a pimento cheese made with piquillo peppers, aged Majon cheese, mayonnaise and cheddar, served in a four-ounce Mason jar.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Piquant Spread With All-American Charm
“Its chorizo sandwich: smoky, hot paprika-packed sausage topped with fresh rocket and juicy piquillo pepper, on a chargrilled olive oil-dressed bun, is a five-star snack £3.95/£4.95.”
“Seared scallops with butternut squash puree, bacon-wrapped dates, piquillo peppers with goat cheese and dark chocolate mousse are just a few of the many offerings you'll be fork-fighting your dining partners for.”
“Into the boiled Arborio (which you want to retain a little bite), I folded good oil-packed jarred tuna from Italy, capers, chopped green olives, piquillo peppers, lemon zest, lemon juice and olive oil.”
The Huffington Post: Amanda Hesser: The Week of Eating In: Italian Rice Salad
“The cangrejo y maiz frito, shown here, is made with blue crab, corn, salsa and piquillo pepper aioli.”
The Wall Street Journal: Serious Eats in a Playful Environment
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piquillo’.
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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genus capsicum
you may want to get a glass of water
(this is not strictly a list of cultivars; preparations and other related terms may be included)capsaicin, sweet bell pepper, bell pepper, banana pepper, cubanelle, pimento, cherry pepper, tuscan pepper, pepperoncini, pasilla, sonora, paprika and 135 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
Tweets
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bilby Pick a peck of pickled piquillos! Mar 20, 2011
hernesheir A Peruvian pepper. Mar 20, 2011