Pantry guide
Best Ñora for home cooking
What Ñora is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
Why cooks start here
The little round dried pepper that makes a Spanish sofrito taste Spanish: sweet, earthy, and barely hot.
Soak, scrape the flesh from the skin, and add the pulp to a sofrito or a sauce. The skin is tough. The flesh is the point.
If you cannot find ñoras, a little sweet pimentón plus a soaked dried red pepper is the weekday stand-in. Say so.
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