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Dawet

Name: Dawet
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Suriname
Ingredients: 400ml Coconut milk; 2 Lemongrass; 4 tbsp Sugar; 200ml Milk; 3 tbsp Rice flour; 1 tbsp Cornstarch; 200ml Water; To taste Ice

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Coconut milk scented with lemongrass with green jelly — a sweet Javanese-Surinamese drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Dawet is a sweet drink brought by Javanese Surinamese: coconut milk is scented with lemongrass, sweetened with sugar, and served chilled with green rice-flour jelly or basil seeds floating in it. In Suriname it's essential for birthdays and other celebrations, and it's also sold bottled.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a hot afternoon in Suriname, green jelly floats in a glass of white coconut drink as the ice clinks.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Coconut milk 400ml
Lemongrass 2
Sugar 4 tbsp
Milk 200ml
Rice flour 3 tbsp
Cornstarch 1 tbsp
Water 200ml
Ice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Warm the coconut milk, milk, sugar, and crushed lemongrass for 10 minutes to infuse, then chill.
Mix the rice flour, cornstarch, and water and heat, stirring, into a translucent paste (tint green if you like).
Press it through a slotted ladle or colander into cold water to make thin jelly strands.
Put the jelly and ice in glasses.
Remove the lemongrass and pour in the coconut milk.

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