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Deliciously poppable, Blistered Shishito Peppers are a favorite snack/appetizer. Salty, delicious, and so simple to make, you’ll fall hard for these roasted shishito peppers.
Looking for your new favorite appetizer or side dish? This shishito pepper recipe fits the bill. You can whip them up in under 10 minutes, and they are the kind of veggies people will fight over.
Are Shishito Peppers Hot?
Not generally. But, beware because one pepper in every ten(ish) can be spicy. It is kind of a fun game of chicken while you’re happily chomping them during dinner. Nothing like a little danger while you eat a meal, right?
Pro Tips/Recipe Notes
- The key to getting an amazing blister without making the peppers soggy is to cook them fast and hot. You want a high temperature and a very hot preheated wok/cast iron skillet so they start cooking the second they hit the pan.
- You can sub in soy sauce for the coconut aminos if you’re not Whole30/paleo.
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- Air Fryer Cauliflower
- Spicy Pork Meatballs
- Air Fryer French Fries {Whole30, Vegetarian}
- Air Fryer Zucchini Chips
- Crispy Teriyaki Cauliflower
- Hasselback Roasted Beets With Goat Cheese
WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS
One serving of Blistered Shishito Peppers has 1 WW Freestyle SmartPoints.
Blistered Shishito Peppers
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pound shishito peppers {rinsed and patted dry}
- 1 tsp toasted sesame oil
- 1/4 tsp soy sayce {or coconut aminos for Whole30}
- pinch Kosher salt
- sesame seeds {optional}
Instructions
- In a wok or cast iron skillet (do NOT use non-stick), heat the sesame oil over medium-high heat.1 tsp toasted sesame oil
- Add the peppers, and stir to toss in the sesame oil. Let the peppers sit and blister for a few minutes.1 pound shishito peppers
- Stir, and let sit again until they have reached your desired level of blistered. (3-5 minutes)
- Add the soy sauce (or coconut aminos) and stir to coat.1/4 tsp soy sayce
- Transfer peppers to a bowl, and sprinkle with sesame seeds and a healthy pinch of kosher salt. Serve immediately.pinch Kosher salt, sesame seeds
Air Fryer Instructions
- In a medium bowl, toss peppers with sesame oil.
- Add the peppers to the basket of air fryer.
- Cook at 350 F for 7-10 minutes, shaking the basket midway. Cooking time will depend on the size of your peppers and how "done" you want them.
- Add the peppers to a bowl and toss with the sesame oil and soy sauce. Sprinkle with a bit of kosher salt.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This recipe is tasty and so easy. I toasted the sesame seeds ahead.
Love the idea of toasting the sesame seeds. YUM!
What is the sauce in the picture and is It whole30 / what’s the recipe???
Hi Morgan, it’s this sauce and it is Whole30 if you sub in mayo for greek yogurt.
Yum! I have been excited to try this since you shared your recipe and finally found the peppers. Delicious! Thanks so much for sharing.
Yaaaay! So glad you were able to find them and that the wait was worth it! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. 🙂
So it would seem that my batch of peppers all came from the spicy AF, tears at the dinner table, molten lava patch! Like 2 of the whole batch were not nuclear. My family thought I was trying to kill them.  I can laugh about it now that my mouth isn’t on fire
Where did you get these fire peppers Izzy? Are you sure they were marked as shishito? I’ve been eating them for 15 years and have maybe had 12 spicy ones in that entire time.
My local grocery store. I suspect they were something else than. They were actually in s bin with no label but they looked just like yours. I don’t know what else they could have been??
Shishitos are always sold in bags or a carton and well labeled. I’ve NEVER seen them in a bin. You definitely got something other than shishitos!
Am staying with a friend in Mallorca for the weekend. We just went to the local food shop and there were padron  peppers. I hadn’t ever cooked them before but eaten them here on several occasions. Had a feeling you had a recipe so I did them. She had Maldon smoke salt and they were delish!  Thank you!
Maldon smoked salt sounds amazing on these!! So glad you enjoyed them Pauline.
I set out to demolish this whole bowl by myself (1lb)… but it became a battle of him vs her. Luckily my husband grabbed some spicy ones and spicy food gives him the hiccups so, advantage me. I can only find the peppers at Costco this time of year, but we thoroughly enjoyed them!
Ha, laughing that your hubs got all the spicy ones! That’s what he gets.
So glad you both enjoyed them. I’m adding them to our Trader Joe’s list for later this week because you have my craving them.
We plant about a gazillion shishito plants in our garden every summer. All of our adult children and spouses (and a grandbaby as of a couple of days ago) come to dinner every Sunday and they all eagerly await the summer day when shishitos finally make an appearance on the dinner table.  Especially my youngest who can’t stand peppers.  I plant many pepper varieties, not because we love any besides these, but because I think pepper plants are one of the prettiest of the garden plants.
You’re so right; peppers are gorgeous to see growing! Do you also plant padrons?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of padrons.  And honestly I hadn’t heard of shishitos until a few years ago when my neighbor blistered them for us one night and I was hooked.  Now it’s a must-have in our garden.
Right? They are impossibly addicting! I’m going to try to grow them this summer. I’ve never really grown peppers but tomatoes do well even in our coastal climate.
Oh, Yum!
I like these, but I LOVE padron peppers (very similar) which are common tapas in Spain. I’d recommend getting both kinds if you are going to grow them next season. I am also thinking that a little smoked paprika on these would not be unwelcome. I do put shishito peppers out every now and then when we have guests (or I host Bunco). I don’t know how easy it is to find padron or shishito pepper seeds, but you can get little plants sent to you in the mail (they looked sad when they arrived, but perked up nicely) if you can’t find seeds or another seedling source. I’ve seen shishito peppers at Trader Joe’s and Sprouts, just FYI for readers. P.S. That snow looked so beautiful! I used to live in NY when I was young, and one of the things I remember is my mother waking us with a whispered, “It snowed last night. Go look!” and everything would be covered with pillows of shining whiteness, completely unblemished. Soooo pretty! My mother didn’t care what the weather was. With three kids and a dog in a 950 sq.ft. house, she bundled us up and sent us outside every day. She called it “blowing the stink off the kids.”
You must have a more distinct palette because I can’t taste the difference between them! I’ve found both at my grocery store and use them interchangeably.
The magic of new snow is so powerful, isn’t it?
Padron peppers are a bit milder (but still zippy – they aren’t like mini bell peppers), with only a few being on the spicier side – a surprise at times. I got the pepper plant seedlings online, since it seemed like growing from seeds was more than I was willing to do, and I was unsure about the outcome, since I am not much of a gardener.
easy to make and good flavor!
Have you considered growing them yourself? Maybe even keeping a couple plants alive in the house over the winter so you can have them out of season? Did you save the seeds?
I tried when we lived in LA, and then honestly just forgot about them when growing up here. Maybe next year!