Pantry guide
Best Pandan for home cooking
What Pandan is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
Why cooks start here
The vanilla of Southeast Asia, except it is a leaf you knot and simmer.
In Indonesian cooking, Pandan is not decoration. Add it where the recipe puts it: early if it needs fat and time, late if it is perfume.
Taste Pandan before you empty the spoon. Fresh jars smell like themselves; tired ones smell like dust. Buy the smallest amount you will finish.
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