Black Kampot pepper is flavorful and spicy. Its easy-to-combine flavor palette makes black kampot the ideal pepper for rubs, marinades and in spice mixes with pepper.
Kampotpepper, which is called Mrech Kampot in Khmer, is named after Kampot, a place and region in southern Cambodia. The peppers come from small-leaved pepperplants of the Piper variety lampong or large-leaved plants of the variety kamchay.
Other peppers of the type lampong are the Muntok pepper from Indonesian Bangka and Sarawak pepper from Borneo. Lampong-peppers bear somewhat smaller berries than most peppertypes, often different sizes mixed together.
The Black Kampot pepper Made from the predominantly unripe berry. Characteristic of Kampot are the flavors and aromas of flowers, eucalyptus, and mint.
Kampot pepper is called the world's best pepper named, a reputation built up during the Indochinese period, when the Cambodian pepper The highlight was in every self-respecting French restaurant. Kampot has been included in the "Ark of Taste."
Our Kampot peppers come from one of the many family businesses with a pepperplantation. These are from farmers who returned to their fields after the fall of the Khmer Rouge and the withdrawal of the Vietnamese. pepper started growing rice instead of rice. Because the Khmer Rouge focused all its efforts on rice cultivation, the cultivation of pepper virtually lost in Cambodia.
The pepper Farming is done in a centuries-old manner. The land is still irrigated traditionally, without the use of pesticides. Only natural plant materials and crayfish, which are abundant in the many rice paddies in the area, are used for fertilizing the land.
Developments
Next to the protected Kampot pepper IPG has been seen more and more on the European market in recent times pepper offered that does come from this region, but outside the quality control of the Kampot Pepper Association.
Usage
Pair black Kampot with red meat, oily fish, brown sauces, tomato dishes, vegetables, or white cheese. It's delicious with fruit and chocolate desserts like mousses and fondants.
Features:
- 100% pepperberries of the Piper nigrum
- protected by the European BGA label (international: PGI)
- origin: Kampot region, Cambodia
- from organic cultivation
Assortment
- available in glass (60 grams), stand-up pouch and test tube (10 ml)
- larger quantities on request
Gift wrapping
- The jar is available in a tasteful gift packaging, consisting of a cube box filled with black tissue paper.
- For an overview of our gift packaging, please refer to the gift packaging section.
General advice
- grind your pepper shortly before use
- add the ground pepper at the very last moment to your preparation
Save:
- save your Kampot pepper in closed packaging
- preferably store in a dark, dry and cool place
- batch 220345 - best before August 2026 (08-2026)
- This expiration date is an indication
Would you like to know how this Kampot pepper tastes?
You can also try a test tube.The tube contains sufficient pepper to fathom the essence of taste.
Batch number
The batch number helps us track which batch an item originates from. It's listed on the packing slip and invoice.
