The market · Chillies and peppers · Southern Europe

Espelette peppers

Piment d'Espelette: a French Basque chilli, dried and ground, fruity and gently hot.

fruity · sweet · warm

If you can't find it

French delis.

  1. 1Paprika
    Sweet paprika with a pinch of cayenne
    You lose the fruity warmth.

Goes with

egghamtomatored pepper

Knowing it

Where to buy
French delis and online. Real Espelette has a protected name.
A little history
Grown in a handful of villages around Espelette, where strings of drying peppers hang from the houses each autumn.
Worth knowing
The Basque kitchen uses it where others use black pepper.

Kitchens that keep it in

Euskadi — northern Spain and south-western FranceBasqueA coastal and mountain cooking built on salt cod, peppers and olive oil — and on sauces made from nothing but the fish and the pan.9 classics · 1 cooked here

More chillies and peppers

Chillies and peppersAji amarillosfruity, bright, hothotNot cooked here yetChillies and peppersAjí amarillosfruity, hot, sunnyNot cooked here yetChillies and peppersAji pancasberry-like, smoky, mildhot1 classicChillies and peppersAleppo peppersfruity, tangy, warmhotNot cooked here yet