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Pandanus Leaves

Daun Pandan

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By William Wongso

Published 2016

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The widely popular pandan leaves come from the flowering pandanus plant commonly found in many deserted yards around our neighborhoods. In other words, finding pandan leaves proves to be easy, which leads to its popularity in use.

The leaves are most usually used to heighten sweet flavors in savory dishes, and it is a common practice to drop a strip of leaf, about 10 centimeters-long, into a cooking rice pot and simmer it. This will give a distinctive fragrance to the rice. Further use of the pandan leaf in rice will include adding ingredients, such as coconut milk to make Nasi Lemak, or coconut rice, a popular dish in Malaysia and Singapore, and with turmeric to become nasi kuning, or yellow rice, another highlight of Indonesian cuisine.

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