page_title: Padrón
section_title: Food
hierarchical_section_title: Padrón / Food
caption_attribution_description: Template:Pimientos de padrón. Bar-marisquería Funicular, en Poble Sec (Barcelona). www.diluvi.com/restaurant-funicular/
context_page_description: Padrón is a concello in the Province of A Coruña, in Galicia within the comarca of O Sar. It covers an area of 48.4 km², is 95 km from A Coruña and 23km from Santiago de Compostela. As of 2009, had a population of 8968 according to the INE.
  Padrón is divided into five parishes:
  Carcacía
  Cruces
  Herbón
  Iria Flavia
  Padrón
context_section_description: The most famous produce of Padrón are its peppers (Galician pementos de Padrón),  which are small green  peppers from the Capsicum annuum family. They are served fried with olive oil and coarse salt. Most taste sweet and mild, though some are particularly hot and spicy, which gives its character to the dish and is perfectly captured in the popular "Os pementos de Padrón, uns pican e outros non" (Galician for "Padrón peppers, some are hot and some are not"). The level of heat varies according to the capsaicin of each pepper. Although it's not always the case, the peppers grown towards August/September tend to contain more capsaicin than the ones of June/July.
  About 15,000 kg of peppers are grown in Padrón each year (mostly in the valley of the parish of Herbón) between June and September. In 1979 the first Festa do Pemento de Padrón was organized in Herbón, a popular gastronomic event that has been held every year since, the first Sunday in August. The festa takes place in the carballeira of Herbón's Franciscan friary, since it was the Franciscan friars who brought the first pepper seeds from Mexico in the 16th century, which then were adapted to the soil, the Oceanic climate of the Valley and grown with special techniques.
caption: Fried Padrón peppers
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