Long pepper

Piper longumAlso called Piper longum

Long pepper is a spice made from the fruit of the plant. Cooks use it for pickling, seasoning, and stews.

Plant-based
Gluten-free
No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Herbs & spices
Part used: Fruit
Family: Piperaceae
Cooked most in: Asia
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

Photo: Miansari66 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use long pepper

Typical ways to cook or use it

Pickle
Season
Stew

Shopping

Choosing and storing long pepper

Availability: Specialty stores

Around the world

Where long pepper is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses long pepper. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia1

Countries whose dishes use it most

Indonesia 1

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list long pepper among their ingredients.

Origins

The 1300s · Europe
Black pepper had displaced long pepper in Europe.

On the table

Dishes made with long pepper

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Eungkot Paya
Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include long pepper.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: long pepper in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin: No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten: None
Alcohol: None
Caffeine: None
Pork: None

Around the world

What long pepper is called

Names in 67 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Piper longum
French
Poivrier long
Italian
Piper longum
Portuguese
Pimenta-longa
German
Langer Pfeffer
Dutch
Piper longum
Greek
Πέπερι το μακρόν
Turkish
Uzun biber
Russian
Перец длинный
Polish
pieprz długi
Arabic
دار فلفل · الفلفل الهندي الطويل · عرق الذهب · أم الرأس
Persian
فلفل بلند

Show all 67 languages

Albanian
Piper longum
Aragonese
Piper longum
Armenian
Երկար տաքդեղ
Asturian
Piper longum
Awadhi
पीपरि
Bangla
পিপুল
Basque
Piper longum
Bhojpuri
पीपरि
Brazilian Portuguese
Piper longum
Bulgarian
дълъг пипер · Piper longum
Burmese
ပိတ်ချင်း
Catalan
Piper longum
Cebuano
Piper longum
Chinese
荜拔 · 蓽茇 · 荜菝 · 毕拨
Czech
pepřovník dlouhý
Divehi
ވަކިފޫ
Egyptian Arabic
دار فلفل
Esperanto
Piper longum
Extremaduran
Piper longum
Finnish
pitkäpippuri
Galician
Piper longum
Hebrew
פלפל ארוך
Hindi
पिप्पली
Ido
Piper longum
Indonesian
Cabe jawa
Interlingua
Piper longum
Interlingue
Piper longum
Irish
Piper longum
Japanese
ヒハツ · 畢撥 · 蓽抜
Javanese
Cabé
Kannada
ಹಿಪ್ಪಲಿ
Korean
필발
Latin
Piper longum
Literary Chinese
蓽茇
Macedonian
долг бибер
Malay
Lada panjang
Malayalam
തിപ്പലി
Marathi
पिंपळी
mnw
မကၞိ
Nepali
पिपला
Occitan
Piper longum
Odia
ପିପ୍ପଳୀ
Punjabi
ਲੌਂਗ
Romanian
Piper longum
Sanskrit
पिप्पली
Serbian
Piper longum · Индијски дуги бибер
Shan
တူၼ်ႈမၢၵ်ႇၽိတ်ႉၶျၢင်း · တူၼ်ႈၽိတ်ႉၶျၢင်း
Simplified Chinese (China)
荜拔
Swedish
Långpeppar
Tamil
திப்பிலி
Telugu
పిప్పలి
Thai
ดีปลี
Tibetan
པི་པི་ལིང་།
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
蓽拔
Ukrainian
Piper longum
Vietnamese
Tiêu lốt
Volapük
Piper longum
Waray
Piper longum

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q685336

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