Growing up in a Filipino household, I was introduced to pandan at an early age. Whether I was eating pandan puto (steamed rice cake) or pandan polvoron (crumbly shortbread), I leapt at the chance to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Pandan, or screwpine, which is a tropical plant that belongs to the Pandanus genus, is a favorite natural flavoring used in cooking and baking. Asian cuisines love to use it ...

Pandan (Pandanus) is an aromatic plant prized for its sweet floral fragrance and versatility. Its spiky leaves grow in fan-shaped bunches and thrive in tropical climates. Certain varieties also bear ...

Walk through a Southeast Asian market and you’ll smell pandan before you spot it. The aroma is soft and buttery, a little grassy, faintly floral, and often described as vanilla with a tropical accent.

There are treats that delight the palate, evoke nostalgia, and ignite a sense of who we are as a people with our own culinary past. Some treats that fall under this category are the pacencia and puto ...

Filipinos love buko pandan in so many ways. There's the straightforward mix that's chilled for dessert, the ice cream flavor, and the soft and fluffy puto that's unmistakably green. Today, buko pandan ...