Green Grass Jelly, and Make Fresh Drink With Coconut Sugar

Green Grass Jelly Ice

Have you ever drink ice with a green ingredient that has a soft, chewy, and slippery texture when it is taken using a spoon. if not then you should try, because cold drinks with this ingredient are very easy to find in my place of residence, even actually making it yourself at home is very easy, but sometimes it is the feeling of laziness which then removes the intention to make and buy it from street seller who pass in front of the house too be a choice.

The ingredient I mean above are green grass jelly, if in my place, it called “Cincau”, yes, this ingredient derived from plants which if further processed it will become green grass jelly.

When viewed in terms of its name, green grass jelly comes from the Chinese language in China Dialek it called Hokkian sienchau, cin cau, and indeed the grass jelly-producing plant originates from there, but because of the climate in my country, it has a tropical climate, a plant with the name Melastoma polyanthum B, Very easy to grow and do not need extra care in cultivation, this plant has the characteristics of propagating in other plants.

In conducting the cultivation of grass jelly plants, the community where I live usually only plant these plants in front of the house, or close to the fence, because of the nature of these plants that propagate. besides having a unique taste and chewy shape, grass jelly turns out to have many benefits for our health.

Green Grass jelly is used as an ingredient that is widely used in beverage products, especially ice, which is sold by many street seller event restaurants. this cincau, have all ready long time ago used as main component to make an ice drink.

Ok, in this article I will share with you how to make grass jelly, and I have included a video below that you can watch if my explanation in making grass jelly is less clear, and make a fresh drink of grass jelly with coconut and coconut sugar ingredients, ok, let's move on.

Green grass jelly leaves

Green Grass Jelly Leaves

Leaves of grass jelly plant has a characteristic green small leaves, in green grass jelly leaves have quite a lot of chlorophyll, or dyes on the leaves, in addition to being a dye, chlorophyll is also an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer, this is widely mentioned in many literature.

Grass jelly plants are plants with vines, with stems with downy feathers, characteristic of the leaves are ovoid and have an equilateral triangle or a broad triangle, the bottom of the hairy leaves.

How to make green grass jelly

After we find the grass jelly plant, so if we want to make grass jelly for drinks, then follow the steps below :

1. Take the grass jelly leaves which are still fresh green
2. Wash the leaves with water thoroughly, then take the leaves from the washing bucket by hand and transfer to a new container
3. Enter the water that has been cooked into a container containing grass jelly leaves, approximately 2 liters
4. Squeeze the leaves of Grass Jelly while occasionally tearing the leaves to remove the jelly found in the leaves.
 - Squeeze and rip leaves and squeeze and repeat for about 30-45 minutes.
 - After squeezing and squeezing for 45 minutes then the water will thicken and foam.
 5. Perform filtering to separate water and leaves
 6. After filtering, then let stand for 1 hour at room temperature so that the juice of jelly grass thickens.
 7. Finish in making green grass jelly.

The above process is step by step to make grass jelly, after the grass jelly is ready, now we will make fresh brown sugar ice with coconut milk mixture.

Brown sugar green grass jelly mixture

1. Take half of the old coconut, grated and then mix 1 bowl of water, squeeze and squeeze once, to get thick coconut milk
2. Use 1 brown sugar, or coconut sugar, weighing about 1 ounce, slice small then cook, add 250 ml of water, then cook over low heat until boiling for about 20 minutes until the sugar thickens.
3. prepare ice cubes, and glasses.

How to make brown sugar grass jelly

 1. Take a glass, put enough grass jelly into the glass
 2. Add coconut milk according to taste
 3. Add thick coconut sugar according to taste
 4. Add enough ice cubes, then stir with a spoon
 5. Brown Sugar green Grass Jelly ice ready to drink.

Similarly, a little review of grass jelly and how to make brown sugar jelly ice easily, if it is incomplete, please refer to the video below, hopefully it helps, thank you.