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Muntok White Peppercorns

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Muntok White Pepper - Standard 55g £3.25
Muntok White Peppercorns

Steenbergs Muntok White Pepper - a pepper relative of Lampong black pepper - is grown exclusively for making white pepper in the hills behind the village of Muntok on the Indonesian island of Bangka.  Here, spice farmers climb traditional bamboo tripods and hand-pick pepper fruit spikes of red ripe pepper berries. These fruit spikes – that are reminiscent of bunches of grapes - are packed into rice sacks and soaked in slow running streams that flow down from the mountains above. Seven days later the outermost skin of the white pepper has disintegrated and the peppercorns are piled together for a traditional trampling called "Nari Mereca" or the Pepper Dance – the technical name for this process is a rather bland decortication. The dancing separates the peppercorns from the fruit spike and after a final washing the berries are left to dry in the sun where they naturally will bleach to a creamy white.  Muntok white pepper is perfect with pork tenderloin, veal chops, poultry, white fish and shellfish, rice and pasta, steamed vegetables, blue cheese and pears.


 


Steenbergs Muntok White Pepper is part of Steenbergs exclusive range of highly specialist spices that we provide for our Steenbergs web shop customers only.

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