You haven\u2019t had a perfect veggie board until you\u2019ve had one that features red sweety drop peppers! First, they\u2019re adorable and the bright red color looks amazing beside the green, orange, purple, and yellow of other vegetables on a platter. They\u2019re my new food obsession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even better than their appearance, their taste and texture add just the right note after a cucumber dipped in tzatziki, a carrot smeared with hummus, or a piece of seared broccolini. Shaped like a tear drop and smaller than a Hershey\u2019s Kiss, sweety drops have a sweet and tangy flavor that\u2019s bright, but not hot. Texture will vary with preparation, but the peppers have a natural crispness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sweety Drops is a nickname for biquinho peppers (Capsicum chinense<\/em>) that come from the region of the Andes Mountains. They\u2019re relatively new to the international culinary market and increasingly available. Peru is a significant source, but the peppers are now grown in various locations worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In warm climates, you can grow them yourself in containers or in the garden. While seeds and starter plants may not be widely available at the local nursery, they\u2019re not too hard to find. Easier to find are lightly pickled sweety drops in a jar. While I haven\u2019t yet found them on the shelves of a local supermarket, I can order them through local markets to be shipped to my home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once they arrive, sweety drops are perfect for afternoon porch parties. They can be served alongside the rich, creamy cheeses I usually have on hand – brie, mascarpone, and goat cheese. In fact, they can even be stuffed with goat cheese. But they\u2019re also delicious with Manchego, goat cheese mozzarella, and white cheddar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At one of these porch parties, my chef neighbor mentioned that he uses sweety drops in a pesto to dress Italian Grinder sandwiches. He seems to love them as much as I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I can see them garnishing drinks, served on bruschetta, in a tapenade, on a salad, in pasta, on an antipasto platter\u2026the possibilities are endless. I feel certain they\u2019ll make my holiday table this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you haven\u2019t tried these little bulbs of joy yet, don\u2019t be alarmed that biquinho is translated little beak. These peppers don\u2019t bite. They don\u2019t burn. Instead, they delight! Do yourself a favor and try a sweety drop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You haven\u2019t had a perfect veggie board until you\u2019ve had one that features red sweety drop peppers! First, they\u2019re adorable and the bright red color looks amazing beside the green, orange, purple, and yellow of other vegetables on a platter. They\u2019re my new food obsession. Even better than their appearance, their taste and texture add … Continue reading “Sweety Drop”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1324],"tags":[3900,3899,3898,3901],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5958,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions\/5958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}