Piquillo (pronounced pee-kee-yo) peppers are a small, sweet Spanish pepper, popular in La Rioja and Navarre. Unlike most small peppers, piquillo peppers are very mild and sweet and have a distinctive, triangular shape, with a sharp point at the bottom. It is this shape which earned them their name - piquillo being derived from the Spanish word for ‘little beak’. These cute peppers are almost exclusively found roasted, skinned and jarred rather than fresh. Although piquillo pepeprs are easy to eat straight from the jar or with a little drizzle of oil, they are also used in a huge range of Spanish dishes.