Homemade Pandan Extract and Juice

1. Wash the pandan leaves carefully, getting rid of all dirt and sediment. (Soil tends to collect at the base of the leaves due to the structure of the plant)
2. Cut the leaves into small pieces, about 1 inch/ 2cm long.
3. Add the leaves and a bit of water to the blender to blitz. Gradually add more water till the pandan juice is the colour/ concentration you want it to be. This will take a while as the pandan leaves are tough and hard to break down. You will also need to scrape down the sides of the blender several times (the leaves will keep flying to the top as they are light)
4. When done, the pandan should be broken down to a super fibre pulp. Sieve the pandan juice (or squeeze it through a cheesecloth).
5. After sieving/ squeezing, you will get a ball of pandan pulp- use your hands to squeeze this ball again and you will be surprised by how much juice comes out! The green water that passes through the sieve is pandan juice, which may be kept in the fridge for up to 5 days (or till it smells bad).

Turning pandan juice into pandan extract

1. Let the pandan juice sit in the fridge overnight, then carefully pour the lighter pandan water at the top into another container. (This can be used as natural green colouring).
2. The darker portion at the bottom is natural pandan extract which will have a more concentrated pandan taste.