After Dubai chocolate with pistachio cream and green matcha latte made a splash, now comes the next trend: Pandan. Don’t you know? It’s not surprising, because this sweet-tasting plant is still relatively unknown.
Pandan is a plant from Asiawhich is known as the screw tree, pandanus, or screw palm. Its aromatic, sword-shaped leaves lend a sweet vanilla and almond aroma to dishes. Pandan is available in various forms such as fresh or dried leaves, extract or powder.
A neon green superfood?
What’s special about it: Thanks to its high chlorophyll content, pandan gives a natural neon green color to all dishes. And at least since then suitable and pistachio cream is clear: green is the new trend color Sweet. Food bloggers and influencers have long noticed this and discovered Pandan.
But it’s not just the color that makes pandan popular. That will also be the next one superfood advertised. Traditional Thai medicine proves that this plant has healing powers. Pandan tea should be Headache lighten and low Blood pressure helps, inhibits inflammation and has a stimulating effect. If you massage the liquid into your scalp, you can get rid of dandruff and prevent hair loss. However, the impact has not been proven.
Pandan has a green color and provides a sweet and spicy aroma of vanilla and almond
Where can I buy pandan?
The leaves of this plant are mainly available in Asian grocery stores – usually frozen, dried or in the form of pandan paste or pandan extract.
Some online stores offer fresh pandan leaves for around 2.50 euros for 100 grams or pandan extract for 2.99 euros per 400 milliliters. It’s on Amazon dried pandan leaves for 16.99 euros per 20 grams or Pandan paste costs 9.99 euros per 75 milliliters.
The correct way to cook pandan
The pandan leaves are never eaten, only added when cooked. Whole leaves in the cooking pot give a spicy taste to the rice. Fish or meat can also be wrapped in leaves and cooked that way.
In fact, the vanilla aroma is very suitable for desserts and sweets. Pandan paste or powder is used here to color pancakes, waffles or frog cakes green and sweeten them at the same time.
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