Spanish Fry...

I managed to get hold of some  pimientos de Padrón last week from an exclusive deli in Nottingham...okay from Lidl on Hucknall road.  Lidl seems to have them every September, when these delicious small green Galician peppers are coming to the end of their season.  I've never seen them in any other supermarket or grocery.  I decided to take it to the next level and rather than just having them as a bar snack I incorporated them in a recipe I'd had my eye on for a while...

Huevos Fritos con Ajo y pimientos de Padrón:  

Fried eggs with garlic and Padron peppers.  It sounds so much better in Spanish!
You need (for 4)
Olive oil
4 large garlic cloves
12 small green Padron peppers
Sea salt and cracked black pepper
4 eggs (duck eggs if you can get them, we couldn't)

Stir fry chopped garlic and whole peppers in olive oil.   (I used the same pan I'd used to cook some chorizo which we added to some diced potatoes and roasted in the oven, to have with the eggs and peppers.)

Remove with a slotted spoon when the peppers start to brown and blister; this won't take long.
Crack the eggs into the pan and as the whites start to solidify, add the peppers and garlic back into the pan.

Cook eggs as you like them.

Serve with crusty bread, or with the chorizo potatoes that we had.  The chorizo oil really added another dimension to the eggs / peppers / garlic combo.  Happy days.

I'm going to be craving a Spanish fry up instead of a full English for the forseeably future!

PS I didn't have this for breakfast, just in case you were wondering...