Le Comptoir de Toamasina is a spice and pepper researcher. Today we offer muntok pepper in white grains.
The white Muntok peppercorns come from Bangka Island.
It is off the west coast of Sumatra that the best grain Muntok pepper plantations are found.
In Muntok grows Muntok pepper. It is in this city that comes from peppers of very high quality which is cultivated on the hills which will overhang the village.
The quality of the white muntok peppercorns is regular, good but it is above all its scent which is lively and impressive.
During the harvest of the peppercorns which are ripe, they are picked and will be put in large bags.
Then they are soaked in fresh water flowing below the plantation.
The next step is to facilitate the removal of the outer shell of the peppercorns and this will contribute to the optimal fermentation of the pepper fruit.
After a few days of 100% natural treatment, the skin of the grains disintegrates and the pepper is then spread on the ground or it is trampled on with an ancestral ritual.
The treatment will end with the removal of the remaining skins. The peppercorns are last washed and exposed to the sun. Which will give it creamy colors.
Buy a very high quality white Muntok pepper.
Once the process is complete the Muntok white peppercorns will be exposed to the sun and will turn white with a singular and characteristic scent of Muntok White.
Thanks to the tradition of local producers and ancestral know-how, Muntok pepper is of very high quality.
It is good to know that the Dutch will monopolize the Muntok pepper trade.
Its name comes from the port from which it was exported, in the 18th century.