Long đắk lắk pepper

This fairly hot red, long pepper is a pepper that can compete with  many black pepper. It comes from Đắk Lắk (Dak Lak), a province in western Vietnam, on the Cambodian border. Đắk Lắk is located in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên).

Long pepper was used as a medicine by the Greeks and Romans. Until the twelfth century, long pepper was the spice in Europe, according to tradition mainly used 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 white pepper and four times as expensive as black pepper.

In the fourteenth century a real pepper war arose in which all the colonial powers were involved. Soon there was no more room for long pepper, replaced by black pepper, and later with the discovery of the New World on the sharp side by chili peppers.

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

The plant it grows on is a long pepper of the Indian type, Piper longum. It grows on a small, at most one meter high, climbing plant. It has broad, green leaves and scaled ears of 5-8 cm long, which look like willow catkins. Under these scales, very small flowers are hidden in the spring, from which the seeds later develop. These are about the size of poppy seeds.

Smell and taste

This long pepper is quite hot, especially for a pepper of this type. The taste and smell of long pepper is complex, especially those of these ripe peppers.

Usage

The dried pepper is quite hard and seems difficult to process, but if you first break the pepper or cut it into pieces, it can be easily ground or mortared. The smell of ground long pepper is without a doubt overwhelming, very aromatic. It is sometimes compared to that of False cardamom (korarima): sour sweet. In the Vietnamese long pepper, the sweet clearly dominates.

Features:

• 100% pepper berries from the Piper longum
• origin: Đắk Lắk, Vietnam

Assortment

• available in glass and stand-up pouch (no test tubes)
  
• glass jar contains 45 grams
• stand-up pouches with a capacity of up to 30 to 300 grams
• 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

• use long pepper whole or broken. When grinding the pepper, grind your pepper shortly before use, and store any excess ground in a well-sealed jar.
  
• the whole or broken pepper is best used 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 pepper in a closed container
• preferably store in a dark, dry and cool place
• at least good until September 2026 (09/26)
• This expiration date is an indication

Batch number

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