Cubeb Pepper

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The tailed pepper from Sumatra

Originally from Indonesia, Cubeb pepper is slightly spicy, with subtle yet bitter aromatic notes of clove. Alone or mixed with other peppers, use Cubeb pepper to enhance both your sweet and savoury dishes, as well as your chutneys or fruit compotes

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Native country Indonésie
Genus and botanical species Piper cubeba
Nutritional Info

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Ingredients cubebe pepper
Allergen Absence
TRACES EVENTUELLES D'ALLERGÈNES céleri, sésame, moutarde, fruits à coques

Explore its herby honey flavours

Its flavours are both mild yet rich, making it perfect with both sweet and savoury dishes. Local people infuse it as a remedy for fever, to ease digestion and they even chew it like a swee

Cubeb pepper or Indonesian pepper

 

Cubeb pepper is harvested before fully ripe then dried and ground. The Indonesians also chew it directly like a sweet. This little tailed pepper grows mainly in South-West India, in Sumatra, Java or Borneo.

 

The botanical name of Cubeb pepper is Piper cubeba L.. It grows in the wild in the heart of the tropical forest as a creeper which climbs up trees as high as 10 metres. Harvesting Cubeb pepper requires great dexterity and lasts for about 1 month. The drupes of Cubeb pepper are harvested once they start to turn red, towards the month of June.

Each pepper plant produces on average 50kg of fresh pepper. Around 4kg of fresh pepper is needed to obtain 1kg of dried pepper. The peppercorns are left out to dry in the sun for 3 to 4 days so that the moisture can evaporate.

Where does cubeb pepper come from?

The story behind this surprising little pepper

Cubeb pepper is a false pepper, as it is not part of the Piper nigrum family!

It was imported to Europe by the Arabs in the Middle Ages, solely for medicinal purposes for respiratory problems or for witchcraft, for example to make love potions. In the 17th century, Cubeb pepper became rare because the King of Portugal decided to prohibit the use of Cubeb in favour of black pepper which he traded. Nowadays, Cubeb pepper is widely used in North African cuisine, for example it is used in the raz-el-hanout spice blend.

 

Cubeb pepper grows on creepers in Indonesia and is harvested before it is fully ripe then dried in the sun which is what produces its dark colou

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Data sheet

Origin
Asia
Condition
Ambient