White pepper

Often, in recipes for fish dishes, culinary experts advise using such a spice as white pepper. Many chefs praise the ground white pepper for its unique aroma and the subtle flavour it gives to ready-made dishes. It is believed that in addition to culinary properties, white pepper has a therapeutic effect.

Based on white pepper extract, warming ointments, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial components of medicinal preparations are produced in pharmacology. It has been proven that white pepper, as well as its black brother, have a positive effect on digestion and improve the work of the human gastrointestinal tract. It is not for nothing that Indian chefs sprinkle pepper on food so abundantly, Indians have long tested the antiseptic properties of pepper on themselves.

Nutritionists advise the use of white pepper in dishes as a prevention of colds. White pepper in moderate amounts climbed and those patients who undergo a recovery period after severe infectious diseases.

White pepper has always been valued more than ordinary and everyone's usual black. Not such a spicy and more individual taste of white pepper is not used for all dishes. It can be said that compared to black, white pepper has a narrow scope. So how does black differ from white pepper?

The main difference between one pepper and another, in addition to taste and smell, is color. Yes, we think few people know that white peppers are made from the seeds of ordinary black peppers, which undergo special treatment. To get a more noble white pepper, spice and spice producers take the fruits of peppermint liana.

Moreover, the fruits must be necessarily mature and have a saturated red color. Pepper fruits are thoroughly soaked in limestone or sea water. After the red flesh or pericarp that surrounds the seed-bone leaves the pepper fruit, the product is removed from the water and dried.

There is another way in which white pepper is obtained from the seed of ordinary peppermint liana. This method of production has been used by humanity for a long time. The red fruits of the pepper were laid out on a flat surface and left to dry in direct sunlight for 8-10 days. In the process of natural drying, the flesh of the fruit itself lags behind the bone.

The result is not just white pepper, but a special look - fragrant white pepper, which has even better aroma and taste. The color of white pepper is rather gray or dirty white, when the pepper is ground, a yellowish powder is obtained. Both white ground pepper in the form of peas and ground white pepper are used in cooking. Often white peppers can be found in seasonings based on a mixture of various spices and spices.