Steenbergs Selim Pepper

• Selim Pepper is a pepper-like spice from West Africa. It is, also, known as Kimba Pepper or Uda Pods.
• Made of 5 cm long, grey brown dry pods. They come from a 20m evergreen tree in the lowland rainforest and moist fringe forests of lowland savannah in West Africa.
• The pods picked when green and unripe, then dried in the sun to dark-brown.
• The flavour is mostly in the pod not the seeds. So, use Selim Pepper whole or grind them down, removing the fibrous bits.
• Selim Pepper has a camphorous flavour that cuts through richer, fattier foods.

Axel’s Tasting Notes: Selim Pepper – Aroma: Resinous wood, furniture polish and burnt tyres, then boiled sweets and hints of smoky Yunnan tea. Flavour: Starts with dried broad beans followed by pleasant musky, boxwood flavour that is (perhaps) suggestive of pepper, but mildly bitter. No heat.

Food pairing: Crushed and add to soups or stews – meat and vegetables.