Pompona Vanilla Beans from Peru
Ingredients: Pompona Vanilla Beans from Peru
Caramel and floral flavor notes.
Novelty
€11.50
1 vanilla bean (8 g)
Recommendations
Pompona Vanilla Beans from Peru adds a distinctive sugar note to desserts. Their intense flavor also lets you reduce the sugar in recipes by up to one half .
Use to flavor flans, custards, panna cottas, crème caramel, and salted caramel sauce or infuse in almond milk.
Use to flavor flans, custards, panna cottas, crème caramel, and salted caramel sauce or infuse in almond milk.
- Origin Peru
- Storage / Use Sealed in its glass tube, in a cool, dark, dry place.
€1,437.50 / kg
Olivier Rœllinger's words
Pompona vanilla beans from Peru has surprisingly intense flavor notes with hints of caramel and Tonka bean. They also have a powdery, floral scent reminiscent of almond milk.
Story
Pompona vanilla beans (Vanilla Pompona Grandiflora) are a rare vanilla variety grown at 800 meters above sea level in northern Peru. It is among the twenty or so woodland vanilla varieties have been identified in Peru and is native to the Peruvian forest. The beans are cultivated using permaculture techniques on small coffee and cocoa farms and have been traditionally used to make skin creams for local women. Pompona vanilla beans are a rare type of vanilla that truly comes into its own when infused in liquids .