Desserts
Puto Cheese
Puto is Philippine steamed rice cake, eaten as is or with butter and/or grated fresh coconut or as accompaniment to a number of savory dishes for breakfast — most notably, with dinuguan. Since puto making is one of the most wide-spread food preparations commonly practiced in the entirety of the Philippines, it is therefore a field fertile…
Banana Cue
Banana cue is made from a type of banana called “saba”. It is a popular snack food in the Philippines. It is also usually skewered in a bamboo stick and commonly sold on the street. This is deep-fried bananas coated in caramelized brown sugar. Ingredients: 6 ripe firm saba bananas, or ripe plantains 2 cups…
Bibingka
Filipinos prepare bibingka during special occasions like Christmas or birthday parties as a traditional Filipino dessert. It is a type of a rice cake mixed with milk and cheese and a bite can be filling. Ingredients: 1 tin coconut milk (big) 1 tin evaporated milk (big) 1 tin condensed milk (big) 4 raw eggs 1/2…
Making Sauce and Paste from Banana Peelings
The Philippines is blessed with an abundance of bananas and it has been one of the top fruit exports to foreign countries for a long time. But more than just its varieties and versatility in terms of how to cook (nilaga, barbecue, grilled, additive to soup dishes), banana is the only fruit that never gives…
Creamy Maja Blanca
Because the Philippines has an abundance of coconut, this ingredient has become quite a standard fixture in some of our dishes. Ginaatan, for example, is a collection of the menu with the like of ginataang langka, ginataang gulay, ginaatang monggo, at many more. For desserts it is also quite a common ingredient for bilo bilo, suman,…
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