The most gourmet use of the quintessentially Maldivian screw pine we have come across is the “Screw Pine Panacotta” SAii Lagoon’s “Miss Olive Oyl” restaurant.
F&B Manager Arista Arres described the dish for us:
- “This tropical Maldivian fruit is called in locally Kashikeyo. A creamy pudding is made out of fresh extract of screw pine. ‘Screw Pines; are those surreal trees so defined by their adventitious roots that they also have the nickname ‘Walking Pines’. They are most commonly found in the Maldives.”
Not only that, but he even generously shared the recipe for anyone wanting to try it as home (and able to get their hands on screw pine fruit):
- Ingredients:
- 70 gm fruit screw pine
- 50 ml whipping cream
- 40 gm sugar
- 4 gm gelatin leaves
- 1 no fruit banana
- Method:
- clean the screw pine fruit and make a puree out of it
- mix the cream and sugar and add the screw pine puree
- add the soaked gelatine leaves and mix and strain it
- chill it and garnish caramelized banana