How To Extract Pandan Juice / Easy Pandan Extract
Pandan leaves are used to give food its distinctive fragrance. Pandan juice or pandan extract is commonly used in many Southeast Asian desserts for its distinctive fragrance.
Cost: 1
Equipment
- 1 blender
Materials
- 100 g pandan leaves
- 250 g plain water
Instructions
- Wash pandan leaves on both sides thoroughly. (Reminder: Pandan leaves grow on land and may carry dirt.)
- Cut pandan leaves into small pieces (about 1 inch), use only the darker part of leaves if you want deeper colour pandan juice.
- Add 1 cup (about 250 g) of water into a blender, then add in pandan leaves in 3 batches, blend until smooth (it will be more difficult to blend if you add in all the pandan leaves at the same time).
- Filter the liquid using a strainer or a cheesecloth to squeeze the juice out, the pandan juice is ready to be used.
- To get Pandan Extract, transfer pandan juice to a bottle, keep refrigerated for 2 days to let the pandan extract settles to the bottom. Discard the water on the top after 2 days.
- It yields about 25 g of Pandan Extract.
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Notes
Yields: about 250 g pandan juice or about 25 g pandan extract
This recipe yields a quite thick pandan juice, the ratio of pandan to water is just a general guideline. For different recipes, the concentration of pandan juice needed might vary, thus the ratio of pandan to water will vary too based on the recipe, the food will have bitter taste if you added too much pandan juice.