Buko Pandan

Buko Pandan Salad is a favourite Filipino salad served in almost every kind of party and special occasions in the Philippines and around the world where Filipinos live. This dessert is addicting.

When I was younger, I always remember my Papa puts some pandan leaves in cooking rice. He says it adds aroma to the cooked rice. I also remember in one of my seminars before, pandan leaves or a pandan plant is also a useful repellent for pests such as cockroaches. Just put the leaves or the plant in a place where cockroaches lurk around. This leaf also has medicinal properties.

Today, pandan leaf has become a widely used flavouring in many forms—in bakery products, drinks, desserts and other food products. The leaves are used like we use vanilla flavouring.
Pandan is used widely in Southeast Asian cuisine, so if you’re from the West you would probably find them in Asian markets.

Ingredients:
8 leaves of Pandan - cleaned well
5 Buko (Coconut)not too hard, not too soft- Grated to strips
Water from 5 Buko (approx. 10 cups)
3 small cans of Nestle Cream
1 medium can of Condensed Milk
2 bars of Green Gulaman
1 3/4 Cups Sugar (more if you want it sweeter)
1 cup Kaong (optional)
Procedures:

1. Boil buko water from 5 coconuts together with 8 pandan leaves that are individually twisted to break the fibers and expose the juice. Simmer for 20 minutes.
2. Before adding 2 bars of gulaman, make sure you remove the pandan leaves and check if the remaining coconut water is equal to 8 cups - 1 bar of gulaman is good for 4 cups of liquid. If it is not 8 cups, less will mean hard gulaman and more than 8 cups will result in mushy soft gulaman. Ensuring gulaman is well-dissolved stir well. Add sugar while mixing. Do this for 5 minutes.
3. Pour through a strainer into cooling trays. Wait till it cools and hardens, then put in fridge.
4. Meanwhile, mix the grated buko with the 3 cans of cream and 1 can of condensed milk.
5. Add kaong if you prefer.
6. Get gulaman from ref and cut into 1 cm cubes. Mix with buko mixture.

We offer orders and free delivery within Davao City Area
 Price 200 pesos = 10 cups of buko pandan salad

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