Black Kampot pepper PGI

Black Kampot pepper is flavorful and hot. Its easy to combine flavor palette makes black kampot the ideal pepper for rubs, marinades and in spice mixes with pepper.

PROTECTED GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN (EUROPE) - BGO/ IPG

Kampot pepper, which is called Mrech Kampot in Khmer, is named after Kampot, a place and region in the south of Cambodia. The peppers come from small-leaved pepper plants of the Piper variety lantern or large-leaved plants of the variety kamchay.

Other peppers of the type lantern are the Muntok pepper from the Indonesian Bangka and Sarawak pepper from Borneo. Lampong peppers bear somewhat smaller berries than most pepper varieties, often different sizes mixed together.

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

Kampot pepper is called the world's best pepper, a reputation built on the Indochinese era, when Cambodian pepper was the star of every self-respecting French restaurant. Kampot is included in the 'Ark of Taste'.

Our Kampot peppers come from one of the many family businesses with a pepper plantation. These are from farmers who, after the fall of the Khmer Rouge and the withdrawal of the Vietnamese, started growing pepper again instead of rice. Because the Khmer Rouge had focused all its arrows on growing rice, the cultivation of pepper in Cambodia was virtually lost.

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

Developments

In addition to the protected Kampot pepper IPG, the European market has recently seen more and more peppers offered that come from this region, but outside the quality control of the Kampot Pepper Association.

Usage

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

Features:

• 100% pepper berries from the Piper nigrum
• protected by the European BGA label (international: PGI)
• origin: Kampot region, Cambodia
• from organic cultivation
• batch: 220296

Assortment

• available in glass, stand-up pouch and 10 ml test tube
• 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 to your preparation at the very last moment

Save:

• store your Kampot pepper in closed packaging
• preferably store in a dark, dry and cool place
• at least good until August 2026 (08/26)
• This expiration date is an indication

Would you like to know what this Kampot pepper tastes like?

You can also try a test tube. The tube contains enough pepper to fathom the flavor essence.

Batch number

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