Indonesia

Es Cendol

Name: Es Cendol
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 100 g / 2 tbsp Rice flour & tapioca starch; 1 tsp Pandan extract; 400 ml Coconut milk; 150 g Gula melaka (palm sugar); as needed Crushed ice; 1 pinch Pinch of salt

Indonesian iced dessert with green rice jelly

Es cendol is a refreshing dessert from Indonesia, also common in Malaysia (as cendol). The green rice jellies are coloured with pandan.

Over the worm-shaped green jellies go coconut milk, crushed ice and above all gula melaka – liquid palm sugar that gives it its deep sweetness.

Servings4

Time40 min

LevelMedium

Ingredients

Rice flour & tapioca starch100 g / 2 tbsp
Pandan extract1 tsp
Coconut milk400 ml
Gula melaka (palm sugar)150 g
Crushed iceas needed
Pinch of salt1 pinch

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Cook rice flour, starch, pandan and water into a thick paste.
Press the paste through a colander into iced water to form jellies.
Reduce gula melaka with a little water into a syrup.
Warm the coconut milk with a pinch of salt.
Assemble cendol jellies with ice, coconut milk and syrup.

Make it original

Pandan, gula melaka and coconut milk for es cendol are in the Asia Boutique.

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