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Ginataang Halo-halo

Hilda — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:48:51 +0000

Ingredients:

1 cup of galapong (rice flour mixed with water)

3 pieces of pandan leaves

1 cup of camote (sweet potato) peeled and cut in cubes

half a cup of shreaded langka (jackfruit)

1 cup of bananas (saba) peeled and cut about 1 cm thickness

1 cup of gabi (taro) peeled and cut in cubes

half a cup of ube (violet yam) peeled cut in cubes

2 cups of coconut milk

1 cup of white sugar

Procedure:

This dessert is very easy to do. Start by forming by forming small balls with the use of your palm the galapong: about marble size. Then in a deep casserole pour your coconut milk and sugar. Mix them well. Put all your ingredients except the galapong balls: bananas, sweet potatoes, gabi, ube, langka and pandan leaves. Cover it and turn on the fire. Simmer this for about thirty minutes. Check the tenderness of your ingredients using a fork. Lower the fire and continue simmering for another ten minutes and add your galapong balls. You can put some violet food coloring if you want.

Turon

Hilda — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:21:50 +0000

Ingredients:

15 pieces of banana (Saba)

half a cup of shreaded langka (jackfruit)

15 pieces of lumpia wrapper (you can replace this with brick sheets)

half a kilo of brown sugar

half a liter of cooking oil (remember that you can keep the rest of your cooking oil for other sweet recipes that can be fried like doughnuts)

Procedure:

Start by peeling the bananas and cutting them into two lengthwise. Separate each lumpia wrapper. Lay down your lumpia wrapper and put two cut bananas in the middle. Put 1 tablespoon of langka and one tablespoon of brown sugar in the middle of your two cut bananas. Wrap gently your lumpia wrapper folding from right to left the two sides, then roll delicately from down towards up. Heat your deep frying pan with oil and fry them until they are golden brown. Add about 5 tablespoons of brown sugar on the frying oil to have that caramelised surface on the turon.

Banana-cue

Hilda — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:08:31 +0000

Philippines is truly a banana republic. And why is this so? Well because of tons of banana varieties we can find in the market and the delicious recipes that goes with it. And when we speak of bananas nothing beats a delicious miryenda of Banana-cue.

I am sharing our neighbor’s authentic banana-cue recipe to die for.

Ingredients:

about 15 pieces of banana saba type

bamboo bbq sticks

half a kilo of brown sugar

half a liter of cooking oil

Procedure:

Peel your bananas. Heat your deep frying pan with half a liter of oil. Once the oil becomes very very hot, put gently all your bananas (it depends on the size of your frying pan). Cook your bananas by mixing them constantly, after about three to five minutes add your brown sugar. It will melt and caramelize. Continue mixing gently the caramel and the bananas. If you wish a caramel well melted on your bananas, you can continue cooking this for about five more minutes. Or should you prefer a crunchy sugar coating on your bananas, you should immediately cut the fire. Take them off one by one and let the oil drip. Skew them on your bamboo sticks, approximately 3 bananas per stick.