Steenbergs Organic White Pepper

Steenbergs Organic White Pepper is premium organic whole White Peppercorns. It is whole white peppercorns.

Steenbergs Organic White Peppercorns are robust, hot and tingly. Use organic white peppercorns like black pepper, but they are best in white sauces like béchamel sauce or cream soup.

Axel’s Tasting Notes: Organic White Peppercorns – Aroma: Fresh peppery and camphorous, hints of damp sports’ socks. Can have a sharp pepper smell, but often too mild. Flavour: Full and pungent, sharp, hot and tingly, but less spicy depth than black pepper, end is bittersweet.

Food pairing for Organic White Peppercorns: Roast chicken, red meat, beef or pork casserole, sausages, white sauces for meat, vegetables (cauliflower) and pasta.

More Details About White Pepper

White peppercorns come from the same berries as black peppercorns. The difference is in how they are grown and processed.

Pepper, Piper nigrum, grows in warm, moist sunny climates next to the equator.

White peppercorns start like black pepper, but the berries are ripened longer on the vine. When all the peppers have changed colour to yellow-red, the berries are picked.

The picked pepper berries are now soaked in cool, flowing water for two weeks. This loosens the outer skin (the ‘pericarp’) and gives a clean, white pepper.

The outer skin is now removed by trampling or rubbing it off. This leaves the creamy coloured core – these are now white peppercorn.

The white peppercorns are washed again. Then, they are dried in the sun or in kilns.