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CATALOG The Canal des Pangalanes: the spice route. Located along the eastern coast of Madagascar, the canal was designed during the colonial period and extends for over 400 miles. Like a silver ribbon, it meanders its way through the coastal dunes, plantations, forests and great lakes.
It is fundamentally important for those living along its banks, because for many villages it is the only access route and the only available channel for the transport of goods and spices. SAMBAVA ÉPICES Excellence de Madagascar
Sambava Épices S.a.r.l. is a company based in Madagascar, with its headquarters in the island’s capital of Antananarivo. The partners in the business are based in Italy and can draw on a wealth of experience in the management of international projects. Having carefully selected the finest spices available on the island, the company identified the highest quality sources and then engaged with the local producers, in order to guarantee the quality of the spices right back to the source.
After undergoing a painstaking quality control process, the spices are sent to the company’s facility in Antananarivo, where they are respectfully processed in ways that comply fully with European health and safety standards, before being packaged and exported all across the world.
MISSION
All of the local suppliers have been meticulously vetted on the basis of their adherence to the strict standards of Sambava Épices. Before being processed, the products are subject to a rigorous series of controls, and only those batches that conform to the highest levels of quality are accepted. The packaging is made exclusively using natural materials such as glass and cork, because the commitment to the environment is taken very seriously. The packaging is designed to preserve intact the aromas and flavors of the spices while also enabling full traceability of the products. Sambava Épices offers nothing but highest-quality products that encapsulate the fragrances and essences of the untainted island of Madagascar.
CODE OF ETHICS
There are unwritten rules that are based on principles of courtesy, sensitivity, nature and respect for others – upholding these principles is a choice that Sambava Épices, make on an ongoing basis. Sambava Épices is a young business that is just setting out on its journey, plowing a furrow rather different from that of the other companies in the sector. Sambava Épices adhere to our Code of Ethics, which is a sort of constitutional charter for us, and we set ourselves rigid rules and values that are geared towards respecting health and the environment, which see us, for example, carrying out the sustainable harvesting of our wild pepper in an effort to combat deforestation.
THE SELECTION
VOATSIPERIFERY WILD PEPPER AFRICAN BIRD’S EYE CHILI Wild black pepper (corns) p. 8 Red chili pepper (whole) p. 20 Wild black pepper (ground) p. 8 Red chili pepper (ground) p. 20 Wild black pepper (crushed) p. 8 FLEUR DE SEL (FLOWER OF SALT) Wild white pepper (corns) p. 8 Natural flower of salt p. 22 BLACK PEPPER Flower of salt flavored with wild pepper p. 22 Black pepper (corns) p. 10 Flower of salt flavored with vanilla p. 22 Black pepper (crushed) p. 10 CINNAMON Black pepper (ground) p. 10 Cinnamon (18 cm sticks) p. 24 PINK PEPPERCORN Cinnamon (ground) p. 24 Pink peppercorn p. 12 COCOA BEANS CLOVES Roasted cocoa beans p. 26 Cloves (whole) p. 14 CANE SUGAR Cloves (ground) p. 14 Cane sugar flavored with vanilla p. 28 BLACK BOURBON VANILLA Cane sugar flavored with cinnamon p. 28 Black Bourbon Vanilla (pods) p. 16
TURMERIC Turmeric (ground) p. 18
CURRY Curry, blend of 13 spices p. 19 VOATSIPERIFERY WILD PEPPER
Poivre sauvage noir
DESCRIPTION FEATURES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE
In Malagasy, they call it The wild pepper tree grows It is a great favorite of Voatsiperifery, meaning in the central forests of the gourmets and Michelin- “fruit of the tree”. Rare and island’s upland areas. The starred chefs. Used just highly prized, it grows wild pods are harvested and like black pepper, it has a only in the high-altitude processed by hand by the pleasingly fresh flavor, with virgin forests of Madagascar. local populace. Sambava spiced nuances of fruit and When it is fully ripe, it has an Épices has directly selected wood. It is also delicious when eye-catching bright red color, the production zones it added to fresh-fruit salads, ice and it is at this point that it uses, and today it one of few cream and sorbets, and even is harvested – a difficult and companies in Madagascar works well on sweet-and- dangerous task. The wild to carry out the sustainable sour dishes. It is a particularly liana, which produces the harvesting of the product. mouthwatering addition to pods, grows around high- This extraordinary pepper pork and lamb, and goes very trunked trees, reaching a is a veritable explosion of well with coconut milk and height of up to 20 meters. fragrances, with its long- chocolate. The locals add it The small, reddish-brown lasting fruit-laden notes and fresh to their rice- and meat- oval-shaped pods feature the its undertones both citrus based dishes. characteristic dark-brown and floral. stalk.
8 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR Product Voatsiperifery wild black pepper Composition Corns Packaging Kraft Bag Net weight 350 g Provenance Region of Fianarantsoa
Variants avaible: Wild black pepper (ground) 350 g Wild black pepper (crushed) 350 g Wild white pepper (corns) 400 g BLACK PEPPER
Poivre noir
DESCRIPTION FEATURES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE
The word “pepper” The selection of Sambava It contains various aromatic derives from the Sanskrit Épices is geared towards prized elements such as limonene, pippalī, meaning “berry”. varieties found on the south- which imbues it with a Peppercorns are actually the eastern coast of Madagascar. particular aroma; indeed, it can fruits of a creeping vine that Sambava Epices goes to great be distilled to produce a pleasant grows on trees and bushes, lengths to choose the best essential oil. Compare to the reaching heights of up to five producers, and impose high green, white and pink variants, meters. They are harvested quality standards. The corns the black contains a higher before complete maturation, are rich in essential oils and quantity of piperine, which if the intention is to produce offer up intense aromatic endows it with a strong flavor. black pepper. The corns are notes. Its taste is spicy, rich It has a beneficial effect on the immersed in boiling water and intense with an earthy digestion and the metabolism, for two minutes and left to scent. The density of the corns but is not recommended for macerate overnight. They are selected by Sambava Epices are those who suffer from gastritis. then dried in the sun, turning above 600mg/L. In its crushed form, it is used the pericarp black. to flavor salami, canned meat, sauces and liqueurs. It can also be ground and served on food.
10 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR Product Black pepper Composition Corns Packaging Kraft Bag Net weight 350 g Provenance Region of Fianarantsoa
Variants available: Black pepper (crushed) 350 g Black pepper (ground) 350 g PINK PEPPERCORN
Baie rose
DESCRIPTION FEATURES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE
This particular pod grows Sambava Épices has selected Used since antiquity by above all in the Andes at the product that grows on the South American peoples for medium altitudes. It is central uplands of the Sakay its medicinal properties, it known as “false pepper” region, where the quality is a panacea for bronchitis. but it actually has nothing is highest, in terms of both It contains essential oil, to do with pepper. Schinus dimensions and aroma. It resin and tannin. In South terebinthifolius, which can features a bright red color and America, the pods are used to grow up to seven meters in is slightly spicy on the tongue, flavor syrups, vineyards and height, is often cultivated as but never excessively so – for numerous drinks, and are an ornamental tree, owing this reason it is a favorite often added to wine. It is used to the attractiveness of its of even the most refined widely in French cuisine. pods, which become red, and delicate of palates. The Its subtle aroma is ideal for but only when dry. When berries are selected by hand flavoring fish, white meat, the peppercorn has turned with a very strict sorting and yoghurt-based sauces, savory fully pink, it is harvested in calibration. They undergo tarts and eggs. It is used in the bunches and then chopped afterwards a natural heat garnishing of a typical Tuscan using scissors, before being treatment. ham called Orecchione. dried or preserved in brine The pink peppercorns are with water and salt. also appreciated for their decorative appearance and do not need to be grounded.
12 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR Product Pink Peppercorn Composition Pods Packaging Kraft Bag Net weight 150 g Provenance Region of Antananarivo CLOVES
Clous de girofle
DESCRIPTION FEATURES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE
It is the still-closed bud of The cloves selected by Rich in proteins, iron, the flower of an evergreen Sambava Épices come from calcium, phosphorous, plant, Eugenia caryophyllata. the north-east of Madagascar, carbohydrates, potassium, Harvested and dried in the which is home to the finest sodium, chloric acid, vitamins sun, it has an intense aroma, quality cloves of the ideal A and C. A glass of hot thanks to the high percentage dimensions. An excellent water with a teaspoonful of of essential oils it contains, level of rainfall and clayey soil powdered ginger, honey and including eugenol. It takes help to bring out and make a few cloves will help you to around seven years for the the most of the organoleptic get over a cold. Together with clove to flower and produce properties. The aroma of cinnamon, it is the crucial its famous spice. After Madagascan cloves is the most ingredient in a good vin brûlé harvesting, the bud is dried intense of all, with strong and in strudel, but it can also in the sun. The clove then notes of mint complemented accompany seasoned cheeses turns brown, and the intense by a winning sweetness. The very successfully. An onion fragrance is due to a high slightly alcoholic sensation with a few cloves inserted percentage of essential oils, is due to the substantial into it makes for an excellent especially eugenol. presence of essential oil. marinade for game. It also works well with vegetables in sweet-and-sour sauce.
14 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR Product Cloves Composition Whole Packaging Kraft Bag Net weight 250 g Provenance Region of Toamasina
Variants available: Cloves (ground) 350 g VANILLE BOURBON NOIRE
Black Bourbon Vanilla
DESCRIPTION FEATURES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE Vanilla is an orchid that Sambava Épices takes its name originated in Mexico, which from the Madagascan town Vanilla is considered as the retained the monopoly over it where the finest vanilla in “queen of spices”, its aroma is until the 18th century – only the world is cultivated. Here the most famous and used in the after that did the rest of the world almost everybody learns how to world whether in the kitchen realize what it had been missing. pollinate by hand, because the or in the perfume industry. Today, Madagascar is one of insect that pollinates the vanilla The Bourbon Vanilla selected the world’s leading producers. orchid is not found on the island. by Sambava Épices is at its best The pods, which are produced Processing Bourbon Vanilla in sweet preparations like ice through the manual pollination requires a patient and caring cream, cakes, flans, pastries or of the flowers, are picked green, handling. The entire process, either liqueurs. Its flavor fits also dipped in hot water, sweated from flowering to conditioning like no other with white meat and sundried to develop the can take an entire year. The based dishes such as chicken dark-brown color and the sweet, quality selected is “Vanille and it is ideal as flavoring for delicate aroma. After sorting Bourbon Noire”, which has an rice-based dishes. Vanilla is also and bunching they are stored intensely sweet aroma and is known for its health benefits. It in wooden boxes to refine the lightly fruity, laced with cocoa helps to combat stress and has a aroma and typical fragrance, notes. To fit the Sambava Epices stimulant and antiseptic effect. which is called the aging process. “Bourbon” standard the pods It’s recommended to store vanilla have to have a moisture content in a sealed jar, together with under 30% and a vanillin content brown sugar, which absorbs the above 2%. The minimum size aroma. is 16 cm up to 18-20 cm. The assortment contains only whole beans, which are only naturally treated.
16 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR Product Black Bourbon Vanilla Composition Pods Packaging Vacuum-packed Kraft bag
Net weight 200 g Provenance Region of Antsiranana TURMERIC Curcuma
DESCRIPTION
Curcuma longa is a root of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), also known as “saffron of the Indies”. Once hulled and dried, it is reduced to a bright yellow powder. The rhizomes of the Madagascan varieties contain a relatively high percentage of curcumin, which is considered a powerful antioxidant.
FEATURES The turmeric offered by Sambava Épices comes from his own farm located in the Ihorombe region, which is well-known for its succession of vast plain and plateau. The aroma is vaguely reminiscent of that of saffron, with notes that are more bitter and acidic, but never unpleasantly so, which emphasize the slightly musky, bitterish, warm and full-bodied Product palate. Turmeric RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE Composition Ground Rich in curcumin, which is highly beneficial, starch, Packaging potassium and vitamin C. Ideal in white meat-based Kraft Bag dishes, risottos and creamy soups, and with fish and spreadable cheeses. An excellent addition to potatoes, Net weight cooked fruit, yoghurt and sauces, it also works well as 300 g a condiment for salads. Best used raw, at the end of the Provenance cooking process, in order to retain its properties. Store Region of Ihorombe dry, away from sources of light. The ideal quantity for consumption is a spoonful per day.
18 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR CURRY Curry, mélange 13 épices
DESCRIPTION
The word “curry” derives from the term kari (or karil), which in southern India refers to spices used for certain dishes. An aromatic spice mixture with a bright orange color, due to the presence of turmeric, curry has various formulations, but coriander, cumin, chili and turmeric are always present.
FEATURES Sambava Épices has selected and mixed, in accordance with a time-honored method, a total of 13 spices from across Madagascar, producing a unique blend.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE Precisely because it is a mixture of spices with different characteristics and properties, curry is an Product Curry, blend of 13 spices antioxidant, an intestinal disinfectant, a digestive and a metabolic regulator. Due to the presence of Composition pepper, it should be used in moderation to treat Blend gastritis. An excellent flavoring for rice, pasta, fish Packaging and white meat. One simple but delicious recipe is Kraft Bag chicken curry, served with rice. It is advisable to Net weight toss the curry in the pan before serving, in order 300 g to bring out the flavors. Store in the fridge in a glass jar, away from sources of light, and consume Provenance shortly after purchase. Madagascar RED CHILI PEPPER
Piment Pili-Pili
DESCRIPTION FEATURES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE
The African Bird’s Eye Chili, Sambava Épices produces a Sakay (chili) is a staple also known as “piri piri” or high-quality African Bird’s of Madagascan cooking. “pili-pili”, grows on a dense Eye Chili in his own farm Together with oil, it is used bush of the Solanaceae family. located in the southern as a seasoning for vegetables, The chilies themselves are uplands of Madagascar. On meat and fish. Strongly several inches long and the Scoville scale, it measures flavored pili-pili sauce is their cultivation requires between 100,000 and 350,000 prepared by blending pili- substantial manual input. The SHA. Given its spiciness, it is pili chili, lemon (or vinegar), bitter pods start out green, favored by those with more oil, red chili and garlic. The but when they are ready robust palates. To begin with, dense, colorful sauce works to be picked they turn to a it may seem difficult to judge wonders on oven-roasted bright violet-red. Originating how much to use, but once chicken, Italian-style “devil” in Madagascar, this chili is you have experimented with chicken and octopus; pili-pili widely used in Africa, but it it, it soon becomes a crucial is also a great accompaniment is in fact nothing other than ingredient. for fresh goat’s cheese and the fruit of the Capsicum white meat. Recommended frutescens plant, which also quantity: one pinch of powder grows in the tropical forests for every 4 diners. of Sudan and was imported into Europe by Portuguese colonists.
20 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR Product Red chili pepper Composition Whole Packaging Kraft Bag Net weight 200 g Provenance Region of Ihorombe
Variants available: Red chili pepper (ground) 300 g FLEUR DE SEL
Flower of salt
DESCRIPTION FEATURES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE
Fleur de sel (also known as Sambava Épices decided to Fleur de sel is ideal for use in “flower of salt”) is renowned focus on the south-eastern pastries because it has a very as the caviar of salt, due to coast of the island, where the delicate taste that brings out its rarity and its unrivalled pure water of the Mozambique the flavour of the ingredients. organoleptic properties: it channel imbues the salt with Its purity makes it suitable for crystallizes on the surface of unique properties. It takes the those with heart conditions the water, under the action of form of small, flower-shaped and those on a low-salt diet. A the sun and the wind. crystals that form after low favorite of Michelin-starred It is rougher, larger and tide in natural pools. It is chefs, it endows the dish with damper than common salt. only formed on hot, windy a wonderful aroma. Perfect in Opaque white in color, it days and patiently harvested pastries, it makes the most of is free from preservatives by hand by the women of the the flavour of chocolate, and and anti-thickening agents. local villages. is a wonderful addition to Moreover, it has a lower raw meat, fish and cooked or sodium chloride level and a steamed vegetables. lower salting potency.
22 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR Product Natural fleur de sel (flower of salt) Composition Crystals Packaging Kraft Bag Net weight 500 g Provenance Region of Toliara
Variants available: Fleur de sel (flower of salt) 500 g flavored with wild pepper Fleur de sel (flower of salt) 500 g flavored with vanilla CINNAMON
Cannelle
DESCRIPTION FEATURES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE
Cinnamon – Cinnamomum The cinnamon selected The Eastern and Creole verum – has been known by Sambava Épices is traditions use cinnamon to from remote antiquity. sourced from the bark of flavor tea, but cinnamon is also Cinnamon was so highly Cinnamomum zeylanicum, mixed with savory foodstuffs, prized among ancient nations which grows on the east particularly smoked meats. that it was regarded as a gift coast of Madagascar, where it It is used to bring out the fit for monarchs and even was planted by the French in fragrance of punch, it works for a god. It is extracted from the last century. The quality well with the acidic flavor of the inner bark, under the is unrivalled. The aroma is apples, and it is a sine qua non exterior covering of the tree. delicate, sweet and persistent, in pain d’épices and leavened The surface is scraped and the without ever becoming desserts. It can be crumbled remaining “stick” is rolled like cloying. It stands apart from or grated at the time of a papyrus, and then cut to the the less prized variety from serving, and is perfect with desired length. south-east Asia, which is chocolate, and as a flavoring The aroma and flavor if produced using Ceylon in cream, whipped cream, cinnamon derive from its Cinnamon and has a more meringues and ice creams. essential oil and principal bitter flavor. It is an antiseptic, It can achieve exceptional component, cinnamaldehyde, rich in vitamin A, which results in the flavoring of as well as numerous other helps to overcome illness and spirits and liqueurs. constituents, including improves digestion. eugenol.
24 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR Product Cinnamon Composition 18 cm sticks Packaging Kraft Bag Net weight 150 g Provenance Region of Toamasina
Variants available: Cinnamon (ground) 300 g ROASTED COCOA BEANS Fèves de Cacao
DESCRIPTION FEATURES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE Theobroma means “food of Sambava Épices offers what is Roasted cocoa beans combat the gods”. The Mayans and the one of Madagascar’s flagship hunger, are rich in antioxidants Aztecs, who discovered cocoa, products – Criollo cocoa – and have a positive effect on the venerated it to such an extent cultivated in the Sambirano circulatory system. They boost that it was used as currency. It valley, a remote region in the the immune system, reducing grows in rainforests to 10-30 feet north west of the island. It is a cholesterol and blood pressure. in height, in the shade of taller little-known type that accounts They give a feeling of wellbeing vegetation. When the fruit of for just 1% of worldwide cocoa because they stimulate the the cocoa tree reaches maturity, production. The beans, which also known as a pod, it contains are dried naturally, have a dry, production of endorphins. We a number of seeds that look like intense, refined flavor. After recommend to crumble some almonds. Inside each cacao bean having manually selected only beans over crème caramel or is the cacao nib and this is used the cocoa beans without any on a cake. They work well with to make chocolate after they are default, the cocoa beans get gorgonzola and with fish, pasta, dried, fermented and processed. roasted. It is one of the most vegetables and, of course, with It is considered a ‘superfood’ due important steps in the process sweets. to the high density of essential of developing the flavor and is nutrients, very few side effects very closely monitored. It takes a and proven health benefits. high degree of skill to determine when this point has been reached so the beans are at the peak of their flavor once they have cooled. Once eaten, they leave the mouth feeling clean and have a pleasing, persistent aroma.
26 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR Product Roasted cocoa beans Composition Whole Packaging Kraft Bag Net weight 250 g Provenance Region of Antsiranana CANE SUGAR
Sucre de canne
DESCRIPTION FEATURES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE
Sugar cane, a plant that The sugar cane selected by Ideal for enriching any sweet originated in Asia and belongs Sambava Épices is cultivated dish, such as cakes, panna cotta to the Graminae family, has and transformed without and trifle, and for sweetening the scientific name Saccharum refinement in Tamatave. The infusions. Not to be confused officinarum. Cane sugar sugar produced is whole, and with raw cane sugar, which is, then, the product of the features a subtle fragrance with is simply a refined sugar like extraction of the natural a hint of caramel. It is purified, white sugar. Cane sugar is sucrose contained in these concentrated and crystallized an ideal complement to all plants. It grows in hot, humid with no further alteration or types of sweetmeats, such as climates, in fertile soils, and chemical transformation. Rich pastries, panna cotta, zabaione reaches 4-5 meters in height. in vitamins A, C, B1, B2 and B6, made with fruit pulp, and fruit Cane sugar is produced by and in mineral salts including desserts, but also as a sweetener the extraction of the natural calcium, phosphorous, zinc, for herbal infusions. It should sucrose contained in the plant. fluoride and magnesium, it is not be confused with common The sugar is obtained through also flavored with vanilla pods brown sugar, which in contrast the evaporation of the pure and finely ground cinnamon is a refined sugar. As a natural, cane juice, carried out after sticks. The sugar cane from complete form of sugar, cane filtration and clarification. The Sambava Épices has fair trade sugar has a sweetening power harvest is completed before and organic certifications. equivalent to refined sugar, but flowering, when the stalks are with 40% fewer calories. Cane full of water and sugar. sugar is also exquisite with pork and chicken and with papaya- based salads.
28 SAMBAVA ÉPICES - EXCELLENCE DE MADAGASCAR Product Cane sugar flavored with vanilla Composition Ground Packaging Kraft Bag Net weight 400 g Provenance Region of Toamasina
Variants available: Cane sugar flavored 400 g with cinnamon HRC02 2019 00 02 HRC02 copyright. of infringement an constitutes S.a.r.l. Épices Sambava of authorization prior the without content the of reproduction partial or whole The S.a.r.l. Épices bySambava owned is material photographic The S.a.r.l. Épices bySambava exclusively owned is catalog this in contained information ©-The Copyright Certification BodyforSustainableDevelopment. way tothepackagingofspices. from harvestingintheforest,throughprocessingatproductionsite,all maximum productquality.Itenablesustomonitortheentireproductioncycle, Program isaninternalprocessthatwehavedesignedwithaviewtoensuring Filiera ControllataeCertificata-“MonitoredandCertifiedSupplyChain” The F.C.C.
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