Friday, July 28, 2006

Agar-Agar (with coconut milk)

This is a simple, quick and easy agar-agar recipe.

Preparation: 10 mins

Ingredients

° 1 pack (12g) agar-agar powder
° 1.25 litre water
° 4-6 pandan leaves (screwpine), tied into a knot
° 250g sugar
° 250ml coconut milk
° food colouring (optional)

Method
1. Dissolve agar-agar powder in 1.25 litre water, add pandan leaves, sugar and bring to the boil over low heat.
2. Mix 250ml agar-agar mixture to 250ml coconut milk, let it cool in a big mould.
3. Pour in the rest of agar-agar when the coconut layer starts to firm up. Leave it to cool and refrigerate.

Tip
1. For plain agar-agar, use 1.5-1.6 litre of water, follow step1 ,then pour into a big mould, leave to cool and refrigerate.
2. To simplify, follow step 1, mix with agar-agar mixture, pour into a mould, leave to cool and refrigerate.

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