Homemade Pandan Paste 自制香兰精

Screwpine or pandan leaf is well known in preparations of traditional cakes among Malaysians, also as flavouring and fragrance. I use homemade pandan paste whenever I bake with pandan flavour. Pandan paste is pandan concentrated juices. I need at least 2 days to get the paste ready. You may curious why takes so long? Why not use straight away after squeeze the juice from blitzed pandan leaves? Read further to find out the answer.

Cut leaves into small pieces, together with water and blend.

strain blitzed pandan to get the juice

strained juice

After 1 day in fridge (a thick layer form at the bottom). It is the concentrated pandan juice. Sometimes take few more hours longer.

Reference from Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover

Homemade Pandan Paste 自制香兰精

Ingredients:

20g pandan leaves (use mature leaves)

Enough water to get blender working

Method:

1. Wash and clean the pandan leaves.

2. With a scissor cut pandan leaves into small pieces.

3. Add pandan leaves pieces and water into blender and process till fine.

4. Pour blitzed pandan in a fine strainer, squeeze out the pandan juices.

5. Pour the pandan juices in a jar, and leave it in the fridge.

6. The next day, a thick layer form at the bottom. Pour away the upper layer of water, retain the pandan paste.

Note: You may keep up to two weeks in the fridge or till it turns bad.