Smoked paprika powder: indispensable in Spanish cuisine

Smoked paprika powder comes from Spain. It adds an aromatic smoky taste and red colour to your dish. Especially in Spanish cuisine the powder is indispensable. Although less well known in the Netherlands, we know the smoked paprika as pimentón. It is not easily available in the regular supermarkets. All the more convenient that you can order your stock online with us. Smoked paprika powder can be bought in a package of 400 grams, 1.5 kilos or 25 kilos.

The strong character of smoked paprika powder

Smoked paprika powder is strong and full of character. The smoking process involves a great deal. It takes days to weeks and the peppers are regularly turned by hand until they are dry enough. During this proces the flavour becomes much stronger, therefore there is no need to add any other products to smoked paprika powder. You don't use much of the powder either. A teaspoon in a dish for four people is often more than enough. Be careful when using it, so that the taste does not dominate. When in doubt, always add a little less and taste the dish first to determine whether you need more.

The difference between smoked paprika and ordinary paprika

Smoked paprika or pimentón is often confused with ordinary paprika. Although this is not so strange, because you would say that the flavours are not very different from each other, this is certainly not the case. Where smoked paprika has an intense, smoky taste, that of paprika powder is a lot more neutral. It even tends to be a little sweet. So never just swap the two for each other. Smoked paprika works well in, for example, paellas and spicy sauces. While ordinary paprika powder is sprinkled over a stuffed egg, for example.