![]() Try not to keep for too long as the longer you freeze them, the weaker the aroma gets RECOMMENDED TOOLS FOR MAKING PANDAN JUICE AND EXTRACT I put this inside another freezer bag (yes, double freezer bag) so they won’t pick up other odor/aroma from the freezerģ. You can bent the leaves as they can be pretty long sometimes, wrap in a cling wrap and then put inside a freezer bag, push all the air out and seal the bag. If they are fresh, you can separate into smaller bunch, like about 7-10 leaves per bunch. Pandan leaves can pick up odor/aroma from your freezer if you don’t keep them properlyĢ. If they are frozen, I kept them in their original packaging and put in another freezer bag, push all the air out and seal. ![]() If you live in Asia and has pandan leaves planted, you can get them whenever you need them, fresh! Unfortunately, for me, I can only get pandan leaves frozen from the Asian store. You can go probably two more rounds with the pandan pulps by adding some water and you will get a more diluted pandan juice HOW TO STORE PANDAN LEAVES PROPERLY I used a cheese cloth to squeeze the juice out, but you can use fine strainer and really squeeze them outħ. Put them in blender with water and blend away Pandan leaves are extremely fibrous and so they need to be broken down before you throw them in the blenderģ. Cut them up with scissors into about 1-inch piece or smaller if you want to. Wash the leaves with clean water to get rid of any sands or dirtsĢ. Which is usually have darker green in color compare to young shootsĢ. ![]() Choose mature pandan leaves, not old, but mature. Pandan pulps HOW TO EASILY MAKE PANDAN JUICEġ. The water on the top layer is discarded and the sediment is your pandan extract. The sediment is basically the pigment, chlorophyll, that gives pandan its green color. Pandan extract is the sediment that accumulates at the bottom of the jar of pandan juice after you leave it for 18-20 hours. Pandan juice is basically what you get when you blend the leaves with water. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PANDAN JUICE AND PANDAN EXTRACT Most of the time, they come in frozen, which is fine too. ![]() Sometimes I could find fresh pandan leaves at Asian grocery stores, but not always. So, that’s the reason why I’m still making my own pandan juice and extract BOTH FRESH AND FROZEN PANDAN LEAVES CAN BE USED TO MAKE PANDAN JUICE AND EXTRACT I haven’t found one that smell or taste good. If any of you reading this know a really good store-bought pandan extract, please fill me in. It tasted artificial too □ Then I asked my mom to buy some from Indonesia and Singapore and they were the same. OMG! You opened up the bottle to have a whiff and I could immediately tell it’s artificial. I’ve bought some artificial pandan extract before and it smelled and tasted horrible. HOMEMADE PANDAN JUICE AND EXTRACT IS SO MUCH BETTER My mom had pandan leaves growing out of her ears back in Indonesia! ENVY!!! These pandan leaves shown in the photos were actually sent by one of my readers from Texas. Unfortunately, I had no luck growing my own pandan leaves, not here in Minnesota where winter is so brutal. Smelled amazing (and makes me hungry thinking of all the food flavored with pandan leaves lol). I think I’ve mentioned before in my other post that my late dad used to place whole bunch of fresh pandan leaves in the car as an air freshner. It’s pleasant, sweet, and mild at the same time. It has an amazing aroma that I’m not sure how to describe. Pandan leaf is also known as screwpine leaf. Both pandan leaves and their juices/extract are used a lot in both savory and sweet dishes. Pandan is one of the quintessential ingredients in Southeast Asian and South Asian cooking. It is so much better than artificial pandan extract. Learn how to easily make pandan juice and pandan extract with fresh or frozen pandan leaves.
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