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Cendol

Pandan-scented starch jelly served over crushed ice with coconut milk and palm-sugar syrup.

Cendol — illustrative food image

About Cendol

Anita Jacobson's Indonesian es cendol combines green pandan-scented jelly with coconut milk, palm-sugar syrup and crushed ice. Her cendol uses mung-bean starch and cornstarch to form the small, chewy strands.

Pandan flavours the jelly, the coconut milk and the syrup. Gula Jawa supplies the syrup's sweetness, while a little salt seasons the coconut milk and sugar mixture.

The cooked jelly is pressed into cold water to set, then layered over ice in a glass or bowl. Coconut milk and syrup finish the icy dessert, which is eaten with a spoon.

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Ingredients in Cendol

Anita Jacobson's Indonesian es cendol.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Pandan leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual77 fresh/frozen leaves for ownjuice and89/94 knotted leaves for coconut/syrup, same food consolidated.
  • Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual78/93 ownjuice/syrup plus104 icecold contactbath, all literal; no implied factory foods.
  • Mung bean starch: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual80 tepung hun kwe true cendol branch, not riceflour Dawet84.
  • Cornstarch: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual81 actual second starch; not Leslie custard/jelly invention.
  • Lye water (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual24/82 explicitly optional prepared culinary alkalinewater; exact product/chemical concentration unprovided and no preparation/use amounts rendered.
  • Coconut milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual88 canned santan, full product formula unknown; not dairy Milk.
  • Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual90/95 own coconutmilk and syrup consolidated.
  • Gula Jawa palm sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual92/119 original Indonesian form selected over gulaMelaka/coconutgranulated alternatives; exact palm species unresolved, broader palmsugar candidate.
  • Crushed or shaved ice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual97/104/117 direct food/servingice, optional bath ice not a different food. Sourceassembly ice establishes Iced final service.

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AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. Es Cendol – Anita Jacobson, Daily Cooking Quest