CountrySpices Wild Medicinal Long Pepper Whole

This wild medicinal variety of pepper has a bitter, spicy and warming taste, perhaps due to its volatile, fragrant oils and alkaloids like piplatine, sesenine and pipla-sterol. The piperine in long pepper is said to fight parasites and infective agents. The spikes of long pepper are ground or broken into coarse pieces and added to soups, stews, roasts and curries. It imparts a complex mix of flavours like the earthiness of nutmeg, sweet note of cardamom and cinnamon.

The botanical name of this variety of pepper is Piper Longum of the Order Piparales and Family Piperaceae. Other common names are long pepper, Indonesian long pepper, Javanese long pepper, dried catkins or peepli, pipar in Hindi. We in the Khasi language of Meghalaya call it Sohmarit Khlaw.

How to store: Always store this black pepper in an air-tight container in a cool dry place away from moisture and humidity.