🇲🇾 How to Make Cendol

Craving Cendol? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Cendol at home, in about 40 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 60g rice flour + 20g mung bean flour
• 300ml water + 100ml pandan juice
• a pinch of lime water (air kapur), optional but traditional
• 200g gula melaka, chopped, with a pandan leaf
• 250ml coconut milk + a good pinch of salt
• cooked red beans and shaved ice

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Cook the flours, water and pandan juice over medium heat, stirring constantly, until it turns into a thick glossy paste that pulls from the pan.
2. Press it while hot through a colander held over a bowl of iced water. The ice bath is what sets the strands — dropped into room-temperature water you get green sludge and no noodles.
3. Melt the gula melaka with a splash of water and the pandan leaf into a dark syrup, strain it and chill it.
4. Salt the coconut milk. Unsalted, the whole thing tastes flat and one-note sweet.
5. Build: jelly noodles and red beans first, then shaved ice packed on top, then syrup, then the coconut milk poured over last.
6. Stir it into a mess before eating. It is meant to be drunk as much as spooned.