Crispy Senise Peppers (Peperoni Cruschi di Senise) Peperoni cruschi are dried sweet peppers dropped into hot olive oil for three seconds and lifted straight back out. That is the entire recipe. Everything that makes them one of the great things to eat in Basilicata happens in those three seconds and in the two minutes afterwards, while they cool and turn from leathery to glass. Crusco is dialect for crisp, and it describes a texture rather than a flavour. A pepper that has be