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Mango Pandan
Today is Australia Day here in the land of the green and gold Oz.
English: Australian rules football jumper, green and gold with mudlarks logo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
To celebrate we decided to do an Aussie twist to the Filipino dessert Buko Pandan. Buko Pandan is a creamy dessert with fresh coconut, condensed milk and flavoured with Pandan. What is pandan? I guess you could say it’s Asia’s version of vanilla.
Our Aussified version of this Filipino dessert classic is the Mango Pandan – basically we substitute the fresh coconut with juicy sweet Australian mangoes! Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi!!!
Ingredients:
– 1 x can Asian green jelly grated (see picture below)
– 1 x tub Philadelphia dessert cream (alternatively some thickened cream will do the same thing)
– 1 x tablespoon condensed milk
– 1 x teaspoon Pandan (see picture below)
– 2 x large mangoes diced
Green Jelly and Pandan
Method:
– Gently mix jelly, cream and mangoes together
– Add condensed milk
– Add pandan
– Gently combine to distribute the green colour of the pandan
– Adjust amount of condensed milk and pandan to your taste
Be warned this is a very sweet dessert to be had in small doses. But geez it’s a delicious ‘sometimes’ food 🙂
Enjoy! Happy Australia Day!
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Happy Australian day to you! I am not from Australia but I also love a reason to celebrate and good food. Your recipe looks delicious. I doubt you’ll have any left overs.
Yes I agree! Thank you!
happy australia day. thanks for sharing this recipe, not something ive ever tried but it sound like something id enjoy. thanks also for your comment over on my blog. im currently in melbourne… its not super hot but it is sunny and theres no rain like a lot of the rest of the country at the moment so we are grateful : )
Hope u get more sun while your there. In a Melbourne girl at heart lived there 10 years and would move back in a heartbeat if I could 🙂 enjoy!
How fun!! I so want to visit Australia one of these days! I love learning more about your great country through your post. Thanks so much for sharing with us at A Bouquet of Talent. 🙂
hugs
Kathy
Wow thank you! I love Australia. I’ve lived in other countries and visited others but Oz is so diverse.
Looks good. I loved eating jellies when we lived in Malaysia!
Nom nom nom