Pandan Leaf Powder – 1kg

Pandan is Pandanus amaryllifolius, a tropical shrub of the screwpine family grown for its long, glossy green leaves. It grows across Southeast Asia and in other warm, humid regions, where cooks use the leaves much as vanilla is used in European kitchens: to give desserts, drinks and rice a sweet, rounded fragrance, very often together with coconut.The colour comes from chlorophyll, the pigment of all green leaves. The aroma is released when the leaf is bruised, heated or dried, and one of its main compounds is the same one behind the scent of jasmine and basmati rice. Fresh leaves keep only briefly, so they are dried and milled into a fine powder that can be weighed, stored and stirred straight into lattes, batters, creams and ice cream.