Long đắk lắk pepper

This quite spicy red, long pepper is a pepper that can rival many black peppers. It originates from Đắk Lắk (Dak Lak), a province in western Vietnam, on the Cambodian border. Đắk Lắk is located in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên).

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Long pepper was used as a medicine by the Greeks and Romans. Until the twelfth century, long pepper was the spice of choice in Europe, according to tradition used primarily to mask the harsh taste of meat. It was a fairly expensive spice. In the first century AD, the price of long pepper was 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 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 hot side, by chilipeppers.

In Southeast Asia, the long pepper has always remained popular. The most special long peppers They come from this part of the world, from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Japan. Outside Asia, Cape pepper grows 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 pepper is quite hot, especially for a pepper of this type. The taste and aroma of long pepper are complex, especially that of this ripe one. peppers.

Usage

The dried chili pepper is quite hard and seems difficult to process, but if you first break or cut it into pieces, it is easy to grind or crush. The scent of ground long pepper is undeniably overwhelming, very aromatic. It is often compared to that of false cardamom (korarima): sour-sweet. In Vietnamese long pepper, the sweetness clearly predominates.

Features:

• 100% pepper berries from the 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 whole or broken. When grinding the pepper, grind it shortly before use, and store any excess in a well-sealed jar.
  
• Whole or broken pepper comes into its own best in stews, so that the pepper has time to integrate,
• Add ground long pepper to your preparation at the very last moment.

Save:

• store your long pepper in a closed package
• 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.