Welcome to Bright Starling Holding Co., Ltd.
Starling Farm is a family owned plantation located in the heart of the world’s premier pepper growing region, Kampot Province, Kingdom of Cambodia. We are members of the KPPA (Kampot Pepper Promotion Association), with GI status, guaranteeing the highest quality product. All our pepper is totally organic, grown using only traditional methods dating back over 1,000 years.
Our Kampot Pepper
Green Pepper
Green pepper is the unripe berry of the pepper plant. It is harvested before maturity and must be consumed within three days of picking. It has a very fresh citrus flavor and is less spicy than the dried variety. It is simply wonderful when cooked with any type of seafood, but particularly crab.
Black Pepper
Black pepper is the sun-dried product of Green Pepper. The unripe berries are picked when just starting to turn from green to yellow, blanched and left to dry in the sun on bamboo mats for three to four days. Black Pepper, when stored correctly, can last many years. Once it is ground the pepper loses its full flavour in only a few days, which is why a pepper grinder is always a good investment.
Red Pepper
Red Pepper is the sun-dried product of the fully ripened berry, the berries are left to turn red on the vine before harvesting. Red Pepper is a much rarer and premium pepper with a unique flavour which is sweeter, more full and rounded, but with less heat than Black Pepper. Red Pepper is considerably less common than black or white pepper and is in extremely high demand.
White Pepper
White pepper has a very different characteristic to Black or Red Pepper as elements of flavour are removed with the outer skin. White Pepper is used where the colour of Black or Red Pepper would spoil the visual effect of food, for example in a white sauce.
