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Lemongrass Jelly
Citrusy and fresh agar-agar dessert using lemongrass. Delicious as is, or when paired with ginger and palm sugar syrup. Vegan friendly and gluten-free.
This lemongrass jelly is a really simple dessert and a pretty healthy one too :) I am a lemongrass lover and anything with lemongrass will be good for me, so this agar-agar jelly made with lemongrass is just my kind of dessert. I am pretty satisfied eating the jelly as is, but pairing it with a simple ginger syrup is quite nice too, especially with a squeeze of lime juice. Anyway, unlike chocolate or vanilla pudding, the taste is quite grown up, so maybe kids will not go wild for it.
Lemongrass Jelly
Ingredients
- Lemongrass jelly
- 900 ml water
- 4 stalks lemongrass, cut into 2 inch sections and bruised
- 75 gram sugar
- 7 gram agar-agar powder
- Ginger syrup
- 3/4 cup water
- 50 gram palm sugar (or use brown sugar)
- 50 gram sugar
- 4 inches ginger, peeled and bruised
- 1 pandan leaves, knotted
- Optional
- freshly squeezed lime juice
Instructions
- Lemongrass jelly
- In a small sauce pot, boil together water, lemongrass, and sugar. Once it boils, reduce heat to a simmer, cover the pot, and cook for another 10 minutes.
- Discard the lemongrass from the pot, add agar-agar powder into the pot, turn the heat to med-high and continue stirring until the liquid boils and the agar-agar powder has completely melted. Turn off heat, pour into pudding/jelly molds.
- Let the agar-agar firm up in the fridge.
- Ginger syrup
- In a small sauce pot, boil together all ginger syrup ingredients. Once it boils, reduce heat to a simmer, cover the pot, and cook for another 10 minutes. Strain.
- To serve
- Pour some ginger syrup over the jelly. I love adding a small squeeze of lime juice, but this is optional for those who don't like sour dessert :)
Comments
Thanks for the recipe Anita. Will try this soon. How much ginger to use for the ginger syrup? Is it 50gram?
Hi Yin, it is about 4 inches of ginger. Sorry I forgot to list that in the recipe, it has now been updated :)
Just love your recipes. I am much older than you but still consider you my guru. Going to have former classmates over for lunch. Am doing a trial run for this dessert so I can present this after lunch. Perfect for this hot weather. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the lovely comment Linda. I hope you and your friends will enjoy this dessert :)
Inspiring recipe. will love to share this on my blog, can I back link?
Sure thing :)
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