Flipping through ’Delightful Sweet Treats’ by Y Three K Publisher, (again) was a ‘lau-nuah’ (mouth watering) experience, the desserts shown in the book were very tempting and the best bit was- the recipe didn’t call for exotic ingredients but things that are easily available.
I tried the recipe below ( original name is Pandan -Jade jelly) which was simple and turned out pretty good. This is a 2 part recipe, complete Santan layer first and only when this layer is set ( harden) do you start on part 2 – the pandan layer
Santan – Pandan Jelly
Part 1 – Ingredients : Santan Layer
3 ¼ tsps agar-agar powder
80g sugar
¼ tsp salt
250ml concentrated coconut milk
500 ml water
Method :
1. Mix ingredients into a pot, boil ingredients until dissolved. Sieve mixture and pour into a square mould, allow to set
2. Use a cutter to stamp out patterns, remove the cut-outs
Part 2 – Ingredients : Pandan layer
2 ¼ tbsp agar-agar powder
230g castor sugar
300ml pandan juice
1000ml water
Method:
1. Mix ingredients into a pot and boil ingredients until dissolved. Sieve mixture and pour into hallowed out pattern. Leave to set
The result :
NB: . I halved the recipe above and managed to fill a 8 ” x 8″ square pan.
NB2: for the cut-outs from the santan layer , I arranged them on top of the santan layer. so that when the pandan mixture is poured into the santan layer, the green will fill up the hallowed parts on the santan layer and on the pandan layer, you will also get the santan pattern .
NB3 : did a big bo-bo as I didn’t notice that for the pandan layer, the agar-agar powdered is measured in tablespoon whereas the santan layer was measured in teaspoon.
I was wondering why the pandan layer used so much of water but less agar-agar powder, I already poured the pandan mixture onto the santan layer and after more than 15 minutes, it hadn’t set …and only then….i re-read the recipe – did I realized my error of using teaspoon instead of tablespoon…. I poured the un-set mix back into a pan and added the correct amount agar-agar powder and repeat the procedure. Lucky it turned out ok
