Mango Float

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): Combine rice flour with 4 tbsp. water in a bowl; mix well. Form into sma[...]

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 recombine. Fill greased small muffin pans 3/4 full with mixture. Steam [...]

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. Ingredients : 1/2 cup flour 3/4 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. salt 1 egg 1 cup mi[...]

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 1/2 inch slices.  Add to simmering syrup and continue cooking for an[...]

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 : 1/2 dozen ripe saba (banana plantain) 1 cup chopped [...]