Timut pepper

Poivre de Timut

What it is

Not a pepper but a Himalayan cousin of Sichuan pepper, and it smells overwhelmingly of grapefruit — so much so that blind tasters routinely guess citrus zest. The numbing tingle is the family signature, milder here than in its Chinese relative.

In the kitchen

Grind it over the finished plate, never into the cooking. Heat destroys the citrus note within a minute.

Goes with

Dark chocolate Scallop Honey Grapefruit Cream Salmon Lime Vanilla

Same species

Andaliman Green Sichuan pepper Hana-sanshō (sanshō flower buds) Kinome (sanshō leaf) Sansho pepper Sichuan pepper

Also used with

White chocolate

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