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used. It is called Ambemohor pat in cuisine uses pandan as a flavouring in buko
Marathi; Ramba in Tamil, Biriyanikaitha in pandan fruit salad, as well as rice-based
Malayalam, pandan wangiin Indonesian, pastries such as suman and numerous sweet
t hsun hmway in Burmese, pandan in drinks and desserts.
Visayan languages and Tagalog, bai Bottled Pandan extract is available in shops,
h tooey in Thai, rampe in Sinhala, sleuk toi and often contains green food colouring
in Khmer, Daun Pandanin Nonya
cooking, Dua thom/la nep in Vietnamese, Use in traditional medicine.
g (Pinyin: Qī yelan, lit. "Seven-leaf orchid") Pandanus amaryllifolius leaves have a

in Chinese and बासमतिया पौधा; "fragrant number of local medicinal uses. Leaf extracts
i have been thought to reduce fever, relieve
plant") in Magahi and Bhojpuri due to its
s fragrance. indigestion and flatulence, and as a cardio-
tonic.
The leaves are used either fresh or
n dried, and are commercially available

in frozen form in Asian grocery stores of
I nations where the plant does not
s grow. They have a nutty, botanical
fragrance that is used as a flavor
enhancer in Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri
s Lankan, Burmese, Chinese,
Malaysian, Vietnamese, Khmer,
e Laotian, Thai, Singaporean,
Bruneian, Indonesian and Filipino
cuisines, especially in rice dishes,
n desserts and cakes.

i The leaves are sometimes steeped in
coconut milk, which is then added to
s the dish. They may be tied in a bunch

and cooked with the food. They may
u be woven into a basket which is used

as a pot for cooking rice. Pandan
B chicken, (Thai: kai hor bai toei), is a dish of
chicken parts wrapped in pandan leaves
and fried. The leaves are also used as a
a flavouring for desserts such as pandan Biriyanikaitha in Kerala, India

cake and sweet beverages. Filipino

i
How to Cook With Pandan, the Vanilla worth getting to know. In Malaysia, Thailand,
d of Southeast Asia Vietnam, Indonesia, and beyond, it's as

For the uninitiated, tasting pandan for the common a flavouring as vanilla is in the West,
n first time is like learning a word for an and despite the plant's beguiling
appearance—tough leaves that look more like
emotion you 've always struggled to
leek greens than dessert fodder—it's one of
I describe. Floral like vanilla but with a
grassy lilt and a tropical bouquet that the most versatile tools in a cook's pantry.
How to use pandan? Let us count the ways.
verges on coconut plus a distinct note
of...is that bubblegum?, pandan (also
called screwpine leaf) is an ingredient