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Tasmanian Mountain Pepper Very Hot

Description Price Quantity
Tasmanian Mountain Pepper Hot Standard 46g e £4.95
Tasmanian Mountain Pepper Very Hot

Steenbergs Tasmanian Mounter Pepper is roughly 10 times hotter than normal black pepper - you have been warned! We get ours direct from the Parrawe Estate in Australia.


The Tasmanian pepper (Tasmania lanceolata) which is sometimes called Mountain pepper comes from the uplands of Tasmania and South East Australia.  Strangely, the indigenous Aboriginal peoples are thought not to have used these for spicing foods, although this may simply be colonial wishful thinking.  The berries are dark bluey-black in colour and have a 5 – 8mm diameter knobbly round shape, with a ridge around the centre.


In Australia, the Mountain pepper leaf is popular and can be bought ground, having a pleasant, lemon-pepper flavour. 


The berries are sweet at first, but the aftertaste lingers and builds over 5 or so minutes becoming really sharp, pungent and numbing – they are way hotter than classic black peppercorns so use one-tenth of the amount you would normally flavour with and don't put directly onto food instead use them slow-cooked in stews or soups (they're just too bitingly hot).  Another way  it is used is mixed with other native Australian foods to create a bush spices mix of wattle, lemon myrtle and Mountain pepper.


Steenbergs Tasmanian Mountain Pepper is another specialist spice that Axel Steenberg has had great fun tracking down and is only sold to our web customers, and we don't sell to these to trade.

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