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Es Cendol – Iced Drink with Pandan Noodles and Palm Sugar
Es Cendol is an Indonesian iced drink: short green noodles of rice flour and pandan, salted coconut milk, palm sugar syrup and crushed ice. You cook the dough into a thick paste and press it through a perforated sieve straight into ice water. The salt in the coconut milk balances the sweetness of the syrup.
Es Cendol – Iced Drink with Pandan Noodles and Palm Sugar
Laura Chen
4
25 minutes
20 minutes
455
Indonesian
Drink
Es Cendol is an Indonesian iced drink: short green noodles of rice flour and pandan, salted coconut milk, palm sugar syrup and crushed ice. You cook the dough into a thick paste and press it through a perforated sieve straight into ice water. The salt in the coconut milk balances the sweetness of the syrup.
Ingredients
For the cendol noodles:
- 8 pandan leaves (screw pine leaves, from an Asian grocery store)
- 500 ml water
- 100 g rice flour
- 30 g tapioca starch
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 l ice water for shocking
For the coconut milk:
- 400 ml coconut milk
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 pandan leaf, knotted
For the syrup and serving:
- 150 g palm sugar (gula jawa, Javanese coconut blossom sugar), chopped
- 100 ml water
- 1 pandan leaf, knotted
- 300 g crushed ice
Instructions
- Cut 8 pandan leaves into small pieces, blend them with 500 ml water for 1 minute and pour everything through a fine sieve. Press the fibers out well.
- In a pot, stir the rice flour, tapioca starch and salt into the pandan water until no lumps remain.
- Cook the mixture over medium heat, stirring constantly, for 6 to 8 minutes, until thick, glossy and slightly translucent.
- Fill a bowl with ice water. Press the hot dough in batches through a cendol press or spaetzle press into the ice water. Let the noodles firm up for 10 minutes and drain them.
- Cook the palm sugar, 100 ml water and a pandan leaf for 5 minutes into a thin syrup. Strain it and let it cool.
- Warm the coconut milk with the salt and a pandan leaf, stirring, until steaming. Do not let it boil, or it will split. Then chill it.
- Put 2 to 3 tbsp syrup and a portion of noodles in each glass. Fill with crushed ice, pour coconut milk over it and serve right away with a spoon and straw.
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