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Kolak or Kolek is an Indonesian dessert made with palm sugar and coconut milk with pandanus leaf (P. amaryllifolius) for flavour. In some versions mung beans are also used and cooked till soft. Banana may be added to this base the dish then being known as kolek pisang. Pumpkin sweet potato jackfruit plantain and/or cassava and sometimes pearl tapioca may also be added. It is served either hot (especially if freshly cooked) or cold.