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Es Cendol

Ingredients

Cendol

  • 1 pouch hun kwee flour mung bean flour, white - available in Asian stores or online
  • 2 c water
  • 1 c rice flour
  • 1 tbsp pandan paste available in Asian stores or online
  • 1 screw-pine leaf/pandan leaf available in Asian stores
  • 30 gram sugar
  • a lot of ice cubes and enough water
  • 1 scant tsp lime stone paste optional

Sugar Syrup

  • 1 bag of firm palm sugar available in Asian stores, about 4 sugar in a bag
  • 5 tbsp of sugar
  • enough water

Coconut Milk

  • 2 cans of coconut milk
  • a pinch of salt
  • 1 screw-pine leaf/pandan leaf

Instructions

Cendol

  • Bring to a boil sugar, water, and screw pine leaf
  • In a bowl, mix flours and a little water, then add in paste, stir to combine
  • Pour mixture into boiled water, quickly stirring as mixture will thickened
  • Take off from heat
  • In a large bowl, fill up with water (and give a tsp lime stone paste (if you have), it is not easy to find in Asian stores overseas, and without it is just fine) and ice cubes
  • Place cendol mold (if you have, if not use potato ricer) over cold water and pour mixture enough at a time and press mixture into ice water
  • Drain cendol over strainer and place in a container, and add in a little water (just so that cendol doesn't stick one to another and stays fresh), cool in fridge

Syrup

  • Bring sugar, palm sugar and enough water to a boil (until sugar dissolved).
  • Cool to room temperature and strain (sometimes firm palm sugar gives residue when dissolved in water), cool in fridge.

Coconut Milk

  • Bring coconut milk, salt and screw pine leaf to a boil, let cool to room temperature then cool in fridge

Serving

  • Place amount of cendol on a serving glass or bowl, followed with sugar water then coconut milk. Serve cold (or add ice cubes)