Rioja-style Potatoes with Peppers and Chorizo

Patatas a la Riojana

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Food of Northern Spain

By Jenny Chandler

Published 2005

  • About

Rioja’s wines enjoy worldwide fame but within Spain the region’s vegetables receive cult status too. It would be difficult to imagine the local cuisine without peppers, introduced in the sixteenth century from the Americas. This dish is a pepper “fest” with fresh green (bell) peppers, dried red choricero peppers, a chilli (chili pepper) and the even chorizo flavoured with paprika.

This is real comfort food: fantastic left sitting in the pan to be devoured after a braci