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Sago Pudding

Also known as: ساغو

Chilled Malaysian sago pudding served with coconut milk and pandan-scented palm-sugar syrup.

About Sago Pudding

Sago Gula Melaka is a Malaysian style of sago pudding made from chilled translucent pearls with coconut milk and palm-sugar syrup. This profile follows the complete Nyonya Cooking version.

Coconut milk is creamy and lightly salty, balancing the deep caramel and toffee notes of palm sugar. Pandan adds a soft grassy-vanilla fragrance while the sago itself remains delicate and neutral.

The pudding forms a small clear-to-cloudy mound of glossy pearls with a softly bouncy texture. White coconut milk and dark amber syrup flow around and over the chilled mould.

Allergens in this recipe

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Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.

Ingredients in Sago Pudding

Malaysian Sago Gula Melaka.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

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

  • Sago pearls:
  • Water:
  • Coconut milk:
  • Salt:
  • Palm sugar:
  • Pandan leaf:

Origins & food traditions

Nyonya Cooking identifies this pudding as sago gula Melaka, popular in Malaysia and Singapore, and provides the complete sago, coconut milk, palm sugar, pandan and salt formula. The Malaysian cuisine reference independently corroborates the set-pudding form drizzled with coconut milk and gula Melaka syrup.

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Sources & references
  1. Nyonya Cooking - Sago Pudding with Palm Sugar
  2. Wikipedia - Malaysian cuisine: sago pudding