Long đắk lắk pepper

This quite sharp red, long pepper is a pepper who can match many black pepperHe is from Đắk Lắk (Dak Lak), a province in western Vietnam, on the Cambodian border. Đắk Lắk is located in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên).

Permanently reduced in price

Long pepper was used as a medicine by the Greeks and Romans. Until the twelfth century, long pepper in Europe the spice, according to tradition used mainly to mask the harsh taste of meat. It was a fairly expensive spice. In the first century AD, the price of long pepper twice as expensive as the price of white pepper and four times the price of black pepper.

In the fourteenth century, a true peppersa struggle in which all colonial great powers were involved. There was soon no longer any room for long pepper, displaced by black pepper, and later with the discovery of the New World on the sharp side due to Chilepeppers.

In Southeast Asia, the long pepper always remained popular. The most special long peppers come from this part of the world, from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Japan. Outside Asia, the Cape grows pepper in large parts of the African continent, especially in the east and south of Africa.

The plant on which it grows is a long pepper of the Indian type, Piper longum. It grows on a small climbing plant, at most a meter tall. It has broad, green leaves and scaly spikes 5-8 cm long, which resemble willow catkins. In spring, very small flowers are hidden beneath these scales, from which the seeds later develop. These are about the size of poppy seeds.

Scent and taste

This long one pepper is quite sharp, especially for a pepper of this type. The taste and smell of long pepper is complex, especially that of this ripe one peppers.

Usage

The dried pepperIt is quite hard and seems difficult to process, but when you pepperwhich first breaks or cuts into pieces, it is easy to grind or pound. The scent of ground long pepper is undeniably overwhelming, very aromatic. It is often compared to that of false cardamom (korarima): sour-sweet. In the Vietnamese long pepper the sweetness clearly dominates.

Features:

• 100% pepperberries of Piper longum
• origin: Đắk Lắk, Vietnam

Assortment

• available in glass (45 grams and stand-up pouch (no test tubes))
• 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

• use long pepper in its entirety or broken. When you the pepper grind, grind your pepper then shortly before use, and store any excess ground in a well-sealable jar.
  
• the whole or broken pepper comes into its own best in stews, so that the pepper gets the time to integrate,
• add ground long pepper ready for your preparation at the very last moment

Save:

• save your long pepper pepper in sealed packaging
• preferably store in a dark, dry and cool place
• batch 280395 - best before June 2028 (06-2028)
• This expiration date is an indication.

Batch number

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