diff --git a/boot/espressif/hal/include/mcuboot_config/mcuboot_config.h b/boot/espressif/hal/include/mcuboot_config/mcuboot_config.h
index 5cfe7860..eee8f0b7 100644
--- a/boot/espressif/hal/include/mcuboot_config/mcuboot_config.h
+++ b/boot/espressif/hal/include/mcuboot_config/mcuboot_config.h
@@ -143,6 +143,18 @@
 #define CONFIG_MCUBOOT_SERIAL
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * When a serial recovery process is receiving the image data, this option
+ * enables it to erase flash progressively (by sectors) instead of the
+ * default behavior that is erasing whole image size of flash area after
+ * receiving first frame.
+ * Enabling this options prevents stalling the beginning of transfer
+ * for the time needed to erase large chunk of flash.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ESP_MCUBOOT_ERASE_PROGRESSIVELY
+#define MCUBOOT_ERASE_PROGRESSIVELY
+#endif
+
 /* Serial extensions are not implemented
  */
 #define MCUBOOT_PERUSER_MGMT_GROUP_ENABLED 0
diff --git a/boot/espressif/include/flash_map_backend/flash_map_backend.h b/boot/espressif/include/flash_map_backend/flash_map_backend.h
index b56bcbcb..804b7683 100644
--- a/boot/espressif/include/flash_map_backend/flash_map_backend.h
+++ b/boot/espressif/include/flash_map_backend/flash_map_backend.h
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ uint8_t flash_area_erased_val(const struct flash_area *area);
 int flash_area_get_sectors(int fa_id, uint32_t *count,
                            struct flash_sector *sectors);
 
+//! Retrieve the flash sector a given offset belongs to.
+int flash_area_sector_from_off(uint32_t off, struct flash_sector *sector);
+
 //! Returns the `fa_id` for slot, where slot is 0 (primary) or 1 (secondary).
 //!
 //! `image_index` (0 or 1) is the index of the image. Image index is
diff --git a/boot/espressif/port/esp32/bootloader.conf b/boot/espressif/port/esp32/bootloader.conf
index c374e135..67a4d145 100644
--- a/boot/espressif/port/esp32/bootloader.conf
+++ b/boot/espressif/port/esp32/bootloader.conf
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ CONFIG_ESP_SCRATCH_SIZE=0x40000
 # Enables the MCUboot Serial Recovery, that allows the use of
 # MCUMGR to upload a firmware through the serial port
 # CONFIG_ESP_MCUBOOT_SERIAL=y
+# Use sector erasing instead of entire image size erasing
+# when uploading through Serial Recovery
+# CONFIG_ESP_MCUBOOT_ERASE_PROGRESSIVELY=y
 # GPIO used to boot on Serial Recovery
 # CONFIG_ESP_SERIAL_BOOT_GPIO_DETECT=32
 # GPIO input type (0 for Pull-down, 1 for Pull-up)
diff --git a/boot/espressif/port/esp_mcuboot.c b/boot/espressif/port/esp_mcuboot.c
index 30355156..088749c3 100644
--- a/boot/espressif/port/esp_mcuboot.c
+++ b/boot/espressif/port/esp_mcuboot.c
@@ -364,6 +364,14 @@ int flash_area_get_sectors(int fa_id, uint32_t *count,
     return 0;
 }
 
+int flash_area_sector_from_off(uint32_t off, struct flash_sector *sector)
+{
+    sector->fs_off = (off / FLASH_SECTOR_SIZE) * FLASH_SECTOR_SIZE;
+    sector->fs_size = FLASH_SECTOR_SIZE;
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
 int flash_area_id_from_multi_image_slot(int image_index, int slot)
 {
     BOOT_LOG_DBG("%s", __func__);