Champorado

This version of Maruya is one that I usually buy for my merienda when I was in the Philippines. I sometimes buy them in a bamboo stick or in a hand fan shape coated with sugar. But their where times that after siesta, my mom will cook us maruya in our merienda before playing outside during summer time. Ingredient[...]

This Turon Saba recipe is a typical Filipino merienda or snack. Turon resembles as a banana spring rolls which consist of plantain and jackfruit that is wrapped in a lumpia wrapper then dipped in brown sugar and fried. This Turon is always my favorite order to filipino food store here in Canada. Delicious talaga![...]

Ingredients : 1-1/4 cups water 3/4 cup brown sugar 1 cup flour 1 tsp. lye (lihiya) water, for cooking grated fresh coconut Cooking Procedures : Bring water and sugar to a boil. Let cool. Add to flour, stir until smooth. Add lye water (lihiya) and mix well. Boil some water in the steamer. Stir flour mixture to re[...]

Ingredients : 6 medium ripe saba (or plantain bananas) 2 cups sugar 3 cups water 1/2 tsp. salt Cooking Procedures : Pour water in a saucepan.  Stir in sugar and salt to dissolve.  Heat over medium heat.  Bring syrup to a boil and then lower the heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes. Peel bananas and cut into [...]

Ingredients : 1 cup glutinous rice flour 1/2 cup dried tapioca pearls 2-1/2 cups coconut milk 10 cups water 2-1/2 cups sweet potato, peeled and cubed 1 cup sugar 3 ripe saba (plantain) bananas, sliced into rounds 5 fresh or canned jackfruit, cut into strips Cooking Procedures : Prepare Bilo-bilo (Rice Balls): Com[...]