Pour into a suitable serving bowl and leave to one side. Take a large pan of boiling water and gently ease in the pandan leaves, blanching for 30 seconds and then remove and dry with some kitchen ...

This leaf adds a heady fragrance and vibrant green hue to dishes from cakes to curries. Pandan is Southeast Asia’s aromatic, enigmatic green muse. The flowering tropical plant thrives in the ...

In this recipe, the dessert gets a Southeast Asian treatment, with ice cream made of coconut milk and fragrant pandan leaf, and rich, deeply flavoured caramel made with gula melaka. Gula melaka is ...

Jasmine rice flavoured with pandan leaf is a great accompaniment. Serve with the mango atchara. Nallaine Calvo, from Filippino food stall Kubo in Belfast, shared this recipe with me. Heat the ...