Malabar Black Pepper
Rajesh Nair
Wayanad, Kerala
“We harvest only when the peppercorns turn from green to just-red. That is when the oil content peaks.”
Your seller · Keerikkattil family
Three generations at the Kochi spice market
We are the Keerikkattil family — traders, graders, and now direct sellers from Keerikkattil House, Spices Market Road, Kochi, Kerala 682001. For over thirty years we have sorted spices by hand at the market, learning to read quality by smell, colour, and weight before a single lot is accepted.
Pepper Crown is our promise to you: the same lots we would choose for our own kitchen, packed the week they ship, with nothing blended from unknown sources.
- ✓ Family-run. You speak directly with us — not a call centre.
- ✓ 40+ partner farms. Each one we visit and know by name.
- ✓ Lab-tested every batch. No adulteration, no filler, ever.
Partner growers
The farms we buy from
We pay above auction rates because growers who care this much deserve it.
Malabar Black Pepper
Green Cardamom
Lakshmi Thomas
Idukki Hills
“Altitude makes the difference. Our 8mm bold pods get their sweetness from the cold mornings here.”
Alleppey Turmeric
Mohammed Haji
Alleppey
“Our turmeric tests above 5% curcumin every season. We stone-grind only after you order.”
Farm life
See how your spices are made
Harvest, sun-drying, hand-sorting — the slow way, the Kerala way.
Turmeric harvest in Wayanad
Digging fresh rhizomes at peak curcumin — the field work behind every golden pouch.
Video coming soon — send us yours at orders@peppercrown.com
Hand-sorting cardamom
Every pod graded by hand. Rejects never make it into a Pepper Crown pack.
Video coming soon — send us yours at orders@peppercrown.com
Sun-drying Malabar pepper
Three to five days on open mats under the Kerala sun — no machine drying, ever.
Video coming soon — send us yours at orders@peppercrown.com
On the estate
Life at the farm
Spices with a face behind them
Shop knowing exactly where your pepper, cardamom, and turmeric came from — and who grew them.
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