Pandanus
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About
Popular in the cooking of Southeast Asia (particularly Indonesian, Malasian and Thai), screwpine leaves have a floral flavor and are used most often to flavor rice dishes and puddings, and their intense green hue also makes them useful as a natural food coloring, they are available in Asian markets — sometimes fresh and always dried, and they're also called daun pandan, pandanus and kewra.
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Other names: Pandan
Translations: パンダーヌス, Panašus į palmės, Панданус, Pandanusa, Похожее на пальму), Geurende, Схоже на пальму), 潘达努斯, Pandan