Black Pepper Powder

Dhee Masala prepares one of the finest pepper powders in Karnataka. The raw peppercorn is procured directly from farmers. The pure and cleaned peppercorn seeds, which are cultivated on hillsides of South India. Considering pepper which has most healthy benefits like

• Good for Digestion
• Prevents Constipation
• Treats Skin Problems
• Good for hair Growt
• Helps in Weight Loss
• Treats Depression
• Helps in Treating Respiratory Diseases

Ground, dried, and cooked peppercorns have been used since antiquity, both for flavor and as traditional medicine. Black pepper is the world's most traded spice and is one of the most common spices added to cuisines around the world. Its spiciness is due to the chemical compound piperine, which is a different kind of spicy from the capsaicin characteristic of chili peppers. It is ubiquitous in the Western world as a seasoning and is often paired with salt and available on dining tables in shakers or mills. Black pepper is produced from the still-green, unripe drupe of the pepper plant. The drupes are cooked briefly in hot water, both to clean them and to prepare them for drying. The heat ruptures cell walls in the pepper, speeding the work of browning enzymes during drying. The drupes dry in the sun or by machine for several days, during which the pepper skin around the seed shrinks and darkens into a thin, wrinkled black layer. Once dry, the spice is called black peppercorn. On some estates, the berries are separated from the stem by hand and then sun-dried without the boiling process