Black Pepper - Know your spices

Know Your Spices - Black peppercorn

🌶About

Black pepper has been a salt partner in every household and eateries for decades. It has a distinct taste of its own, which gives food a nice warm taste and helps in enhancing it. It is the most common spice which comes from climbing vine, native to Southern India. 

 🌶Uses

⭐Black Pepper has its major use in food from garnishing to cooking.

⭐It can be used as whole peppercorns, crushed or grounded depending on the sort of recipe we will use them.

⭐We also use Black Pepper as a medicine for sore throat, combined with ginger and honey.

⭐It’s better to use freshly ground or crushed pepper, as it has more fresh flavor than the ready-ground or crushed ones.

 

Related Recipes: Shab deg, Nargisi Kofta, Black pepper curry, Black Pepper Karahi

 

 

🌶How do you grow black pepper at home?

⚈Since black pepper is a tropical plant, so it requires a hot and humid climate. It’s a bit difficult to grow black pepper at home if not provided proper temperature and water.

⚈Do not use the regular black peppercorns which are used in food, as chances are very slim for them to grow into plants because of all the food-related processing. It’s better to use fresh ones.

⚈Fill a container with well-fertilized soil, make a hole of about ½ inch deep, and keep some distance between them. Drop a seed in each hole, then fill it. Water it, keep the soil moist, do not let it dry.

⚈Once the plant grows, transfer it to a pot or on land, where ever you want to plant it.

⚈You will see red and green peppercorn in a plant. If you want your pepper to be white, harvest them when they are red and if you want it to be black, harvest them when it's green.