Filipino Desserts

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Want to taste a healthy and affordable Filipino dessert?

Try this Filipino snack called Taho. This staple comfort food is delicious, creamy and sweet Filipino snack. Follow this instructional video on how to make Taho.

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Champorado is a sweet chocolate rice porridge is one of the Filipino desserts or can be an alternative to the usual rice meal. It is traditionally made by boiling sticky or sweet rice and cocoa powder. The cocoa gives it a distinctly brown color. Champorado is best served for breakfast and sometimes eaten together with dried fish locally known as tuyo. There are dry champorado mixes, which may be found in some Asian food stores, are cooked by adding just boiling water. It can be served hot or cold and with milk and sugar to taste.

Ingredients

1 cup glutinous (sweet/sticky) rice

2 1/2 cups water

1/2 cup (more or less to taste) unsweetened cocoa

1/2 cup (more or less to taste) sugar

1/8 tsp. vanilla extract (optional)

4 ounces sweetened condensed milk

Directions

1.  Cook or boil rice in a medium-sized saucepan with 2 1/2 cups water.

2.  Stir constantly to prevent rice from sticking at the bottom.

3.  When rice is fluffy and soft, add cocoa, sugar and vanilla.

4.  Serve in bowls with swirls of sweet condensed milk on top. Serves 4 people.

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Almost all Filipinos are born with a sweet tooth and most of us might never outgrow it. Filipinos are known to have a hearty appetite and just love to eat. In fact, a typical Filipino eats three meals a day and two snacks in between. This is the reason why Philippine desserts have always been a large part of Philippine cuisine. Most Filipinos feel something is lacking after eating a hearty meal. A meal simply isn’t complete without finishing it with a sweet dessert.

Different “Kakanin” or Rice Cakes

Don’t be surprise though to see many fast food joints sprouting like mushrooms across Philippines. The idea of Philippine desserts has evolved through the years but the taste of Filipino desserts still lingers and outweighs the readily available modern quick desserts out there. Here are quick facts about Filipino desserts and you might want to try your hand making one on your own.

Rice Cakes

Merienda means an afternoon snack adapted from the concept of afternoon tea. Food is deeply intertwined in Filipino culture evidently seen by abundant Filipino dessert recipes. Rice is such a well-loved staple of a typical Filipino diet. It’s so well-loved that an array of Philippine desserts is made from glutinous rice in the form of flour. Glutinous rice serves as the main ingredient of different kinds of puddings, cakes and festive foods cooked especially by mixing the rice with coconut milk, sugar and flavoring. To name a few Filipino desserts are rich rice cakes desserts (also called kakainin) such as kutsinta, sapin-sapin, biko, suman, palitaw, bibingka and pitsi-pitsi and steamed rice flour cakes called puto. Kutsinta is a type of brown rice cake. Sapin-sapin are three-layered tricolored sweets made of rice flour, purple yam and coconut milk with its gelatinous appearance. Puto is a famous example of sweet steamed rice cakes prepared in various colors sizes. Palitaw are rice patties covered with sesame seeds, coconut and sugar. Pitsi-pitsi are rice or cassava patties coated with cheese or coconut. Suman are rolled sticky rice steamed hot.

Suman dessert

Filipino desserts may seem complicated at first glance but are actually one of the easiest recipes you can make. If you’re searching for healthy and sweet quick desserts, Filipino desserts may be just what you’re looking for.

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The Philippine Custard or Leche Flan is a sweet dessert that is so simple to make. Watch this instructional video on how to cook this Filipino dessert.

View our recipe of Leche Flan.

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Ingredients

200 grams graham crackers (approximately)

1 (10 1/2 ounce) can all purpose cream

3 large ripe mangoes

1 (10 ounce) can condensed milk

Directions

1. Slice mangoes into thin wedges.

2. Combine condensed milk, all purpose cream, and sliced mangoes.

3. Layer the graham crackers in a square glass pan or other container.

4. Put on the crackers a layer of the filling of mangoes, all purpose cream, and condensed milk.

5. Repeat by putting layers of graham crackers and filling until you’ve used it all. Top the final layer with graham crackers.

6. Put it in the refrigerator and chill overnight. Mango float as a frozen treat tastes even more delicious when you put this desert in the freezer.

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An instructional video on how to make a frozen and yummy treat, Mango Float!

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Ginataang halo halo is a well-known dessert in the Philippines. It has a rich coconut milk base and tidbits of a variety of root crops and other fruits. It is from the tagalog word “Halo-halo” which means “mix” such as yam, cassava, sweet potatoes, banana, sago, glutinous rice balls and jackfruit.

Ingredients:
250 grams sweet rice flour
6 plantain or “saba” bananas, sliced
1 can coconut milk
250 grams jackfruit or “langka”
6 pandan leaves or 1 tsp vanilla
200 grams cooked sago pearls
225 grams sweet potato or “camote”, cubed
300 grams white sugar
225 taro root or “gabi”, cubed
1 can coconut cream or root crops may be used as thickener

Directions:
1. Combine rice flour with 250 ml water. Form mixture into small balls.
2. Place the rice flour balls in a casserole with water.
3. Bring to a boil. Add the sago pearls, sweet potato, taro and other root crops you may have.
4. Cook for 5 minutes. Add the banana slices, jackfruit and rice balls. Continue to cook over moderate heat until all the rice balls float to the surface.
5. Stir in sugar and coconut cream then transfer to a serving bowl.
6. Serve hot or maybe chilled.

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An instructional video on how to cook and style Maja Blanca!
Created by Carlos Aquino, Jr. and Ralph Ramos of DLS-CSB.

View our Maja Blanca recipe.

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Estimated cooking time: 1 hour and 20 minutes

Ingredients:
½ cup of thick coconut milk
1 cup rice flour
1cup of sugar
½ cup of cornstarch
3 tablespoon sweet corn kernel
4 cups fresh coconut milk or water
½ cup grated coconut meat (optional)

Directions:
1. Pour coconut milk in a saucepan and bring to boil. Wait until oil separates from the coconut mixture and the precipitates turns into dark brown. This dark brown formation is called “latik”. Drain the “latik” from the oil. Set aside.
2. Grease a 13-inch rectangular dish with coconut oil. Set aside.
3. In a medium-sized saucepan, blend rice flour, sugar, cornstarch, sweet corn kernels and fresh coconut milk or water.
4. Stir in optional grated buko or coconut meat. Boil over slow heat and stir constantly to prevent lumps. Wait until mixture is clear after 3 to 5 minutes.
5. Pour hot mixture into prepared dish and allow to set. Sprinkle the “latik” over the set mixture. Let it cool before slicing.
6. If rice flour isn’t available, soak 2 cups of rice in 2 cups of water overnight. When soft, grind in blender until smooth.

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