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    Home » Easy Vegan Recipes » Kitchen Staples

    Pandan Water (Nam Bai Toey น้ำใบเตย)

    15 August, 2018 by Kip 1 Comment

    Pandan, also called screwpine and bai toey in Thai, is used throughout Southeast Asia in food preparations. There are many pandanus plant species but pandanus amaryllifolius is the screwpine used in Thai cuisine as it is the only variety with such fragrant leaves.

    Pandan imparts a nutty and grassy element to foods. The often repeated expression that pandan is utilised in Thai cuisine like vanilla in European and American cooking is mostly correct, with the exception that pandan is also used in making savoury cuisine.

    Pandan water is commonly used in making Thai sweets such as kanom chan and bua loy and, since I love to make kanom Thai, I am regularly whizzing up batches of this fragrant water.

    This hardly qualifies as a recipe, but serves as a reference point for other recipes that call for pandan water.

    Pandan Water

    Nam Bai Toey

    Nam Bai Toey Pandan Water

    Ingredients

    • 60 grams pandan leaf, cut into 1 centimetre segments
    • 125 millilitres (½ cup) water

    Directions/Method

    1. Add cut pandan leaf segments and water to a blender. Blend until broken down. Remove liquid and green pulp and strain (squeeze) to extract as much liquid as possible. Store in the refrigerator and use liquid within a day or two.
    • Author: Kip Dorrell
    • Makes: Just over ½ cup
    • Cuisine: Thai

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    1. Jwiltz

      September 08, 2018 at 12:27 pm

      Thank you for this article. I was wondering how to use this product.

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