How To Make Green Grass Jelly from Scracth

Grass jelly or commonly referred to as Cincau in Indonesia, or referred to as suong sam in Vietnam, is jelly made by squeezing the leaves of certain plants, extracts from the plant will clot to form jelly because of the carbohydrate content of the plant which is able to bind water molecules.

Grass jelly is usually made as a beverage refill ingredient, or can also be served as a dessert.

Grass jelly does not have a taste, because it needs the addition of other food ingredients, such as milk, tea, sweeteners, and fruits.

Making grass jelly now is not difficult, because currently available grass jelly powder that has been sold freely and is very easy to make.

Grass jelly can be divided into two, namely green grass jelly and black grass jelly.

To make green grass jelly and black grass jelly have different processes, because these two types of grass jelly also come from different plants.

How to make green grass jelly

Green grass jelly can be made using leaves of grass jelly vine and shrubs grass jelly, from these two plants, green grass jelly will be obtained, in the making process, it should be noted the ratio between the number of leaves and the amount of water used.

Because if the ratio of the number of grass jelly and water is not appropriate, it can result in failure in making grass jelly.

Another factor that will determine the quality of grass jelly made is the selection of grass jelly leaves, choose an old grass jelly leaves, because the old leaves have more carbohydrates.

In making green grass jelly, try to use more grass jelly leaves and use enough boiled water, because this will affect the level of success in making grass jelly.

In this post, grass jelly is used grass jelly vines, for the process of making grass jelly with shrubs grass plants, the process is exactly the same.

How to make

1. The first step is the process of taking grass jelly leaves, selecting and select old grass jelly leaves, which have dark green characteristics, and the leaves are a bit stiff.

Selecting and select old grass jelly leaves

2. Using a bucket, wash the grass jelly with running water. use your hands to stir so the leaves are clean. rinse with water can be done 2 times

Washing grass jelly vine with running water

3. After the leaves are clean, transfer leaves to another container, in this container, the grass jelly leaves will be kneaded.

Transfer grass jelly leaves to another container

Grass jelly leaves transfer to a new container

4. Mix with boiled water, or sterile water that is often drunk.

Mix with clean water

5. Then, using both hands, squeeze and turn the grass jelly to shatter, and the water turns green and foamy, this process is carried out so that the jelly is formed, squeeze for about 15-20 minutes or until it feels the water has started to thicken.

Squeezing grass jelly vines with both hand

Grass jelly leaves make a jelly and foamed after squeezing

Foamed grass jelly vine leaves

Grass jelly vine leaves after finish squeezing

6. Take another container and filter, then filter grass jelly juice to separate grass jelly and leaves that have been destroyed.

Juice of grass jelly leaves after filtered

7. Then leave it in the container for approximately 1 hour, or when it is felt that the grass jelly has thickened.

After one hour, grass jelly ready consumed

8. Done, jelly is ready to be consumed.

To make it clearer in making grass jelly from scratch, please refer to the video display below on how to make your own green grass jelly review easily.