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Pandan Extract
Grassy, sweet, and faintly vanilla-like, with a distinct green, herbal edge.
Lens analyzedPandan extract is a concentrated liquid flavoring made from pandan leaves, used to bring their grassy, vanilla-like aroma into recipes without needing fresh leaves on hand. A few drops color and flavor cakes, custards, and drinks the way vanilla extract works in Western baking. It shows up most often in Southeast Asian and Filipino desserts.
Where it comes from
Fresh pandan leaves have long flavored rice, cakes, and drinks across Southeast Asia and the Philippines, and the bottled extract developed as a way to bring that flavor into kitchens without local access to the fresh plant. Bright green food coloring is often blended in alongside the flavor, which is why many bottles tint batter a vivid green.
Buying it
Read the label to see whether it's a natural extract or an artificially flavored one, since recipes can call for either, and check that the color looks vivid rather than faded.
Storing it
The glass bottle keeps well in a pantry cabinet, capped tightly and out of direct sunlight, the same as any other extract stored nearby.
Keeps about 1 year in the pantry.
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