Black Kampot pepper PGI

Black Kampot pepper is flavorful and sharp. Its easy-to-combine flavor profile makes black kampot the ideal pepper for rubs, marinades and in spice blends with pepper.

Kampotpepper, which is called Mrech Kampot in Khmer, is named after Kampot, a town and region in southern Cambodia. The peppers are derived 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 peppersears, often different sizes mixed together.

The black Kampot pepper It is made from the predominantly unripe berry. Characteristic of the Kampot are the taste and aroma notes of flowers, eucalyptus, and mint.

Kampot pepper will become the world's best pepper mentioned, a reputation built up in the Indochinese era, when the Cambodian pepper The star in every self-respecting French restaurant was Kampot. Kampot has been included in the 'Ark of Taste'.

Our Kampot peppers come from one of the many small family businesses with a pepperplantation. These belong to farmers who, after the fall of the Khmer Rouge and the withdrawal of the Vietnamese, pepper have started cultivating instead of rice. Because the Khmer Rouge had focused all its efforts on rice cultivation, the cultivation of pepper virtually lost in Cambodia.

The pepper Cultivation is carried out in an age-old manner. The land is still irrigated in the traditional way, without the use of pesticides. For the fertilization of the land, only natural raw materials from plants and crayfish are used, which occur on a large scale on the many rice paddies in the area.

Developments

Next to the protected Kampot pepper You see IPG more and more on the European market lately. pepper are offered that do come from this region, but bypass the quality control of the Kampot Pepper Association.

Usage

Pair black kampot with red meat, fatty fish, brown sauces, tomato dishes, vegetables, or white cheese. Delicious with fruit and chocolate desserts such as mousses and fondants.

Features:

• 100% pepperberries of Piper nigrum
• protected by the European PGI label (international: PGI)
• origin: Kampot region, Cambodia
• from organic farming
  

Assortment

• available in glass (60 grams), stand-up pouch and test tube (10 ml)
• Larger quantities on request

Gift packaging

• The jar is available in 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

• meal your pepper shortly before use
  
• add the ground pepper ready for your preparation at the very last moment

Save:

• keep your Kampot pepper in sealed packaging
• preferably store in a dark, dry and cool place
• best before September 2029 (09-2029)
• This expiration date is an indication.

Do you want to know how this Kampot pepper tastes good?

Could you also try a test tube?The tube contains sufficient pepper to fathom the essence of the taste.

Batch number KG600413

The batch number helps us trace which supply an item originated from. It is listed on the packing slip and the invoice.