Filipino Desserts

(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

 Loading ...

Ingredients:

2 pounds pork rind, cut into 1-inch square
1 cup vegetable or corn oil
Patis or salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
3 cups of water

Dipping sauce:
3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon salt
3 cloves crushed garlic

Preparations:

1. In a deep pot, boil cut pork rind in water and salt for 30 minutes.
2. On an oven pan, spread the cooked pork rind and bake at 300F for 3 hours
3. Set aside and allow tocool.
4. In a skillet, deep fry pork rinds in hot oil over high heat until they puff up.
Dipping sauce
1. Combine all ingredients and mix well.

Technorati Tags: chicharon, Filipino Dessert, pig skin recipe

(6 votes, average: 2.83 out of 5)

 Loading ...

Ingredients:
2 packs frozen ube
1 box sweet rice flour or mochiko
banana leaves
4 cups white sugar
2 cans coconut milk
1 tsp vanilla
latik (cook coconut milk slowly until all oil is extracted and residue or latik is formed)

Preparation:
1. Thaw frozen ube.
2. Make latik in a separate pot.
3. Wilt each banana leaf then brush with coconut oil.
4. In large wok, mix thawed ube with coconut milk, rice flour, sugar, vanilla and a little coconut oil.
5. Stir while cooking. Add more coconut oil by tablespoonfuls if needed to prevent sticking.
6. Keep stirring until mixture is very thick. Put in pan lined with wilted banana leaves.
7. Flatten batter by hand using a piece of oiled banana leaf.
8. If you don’t feel like stirring for a long time, you may put slightly thickened mixture in baking pan and bake in 350°F oven 15 to 20 minutes.
9. Cool and score prepared ube in diagonal shapes and put latik on top.

Technorati Tags: filipino delicacy, Filipino Desserts, snacks, ube jam recipe

(5 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5)

 Loading ...

Ingredients:
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups water
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 ripe plantains cut lengthwise into 1/8-inch-thick slices (sliced sweet potatoes may be substituted)
8 ounces sweet butter sherry

Preparations:
1. In a saucepan over medium heat, combine sugar, water and salt until a thick syrup forms. Simmer.
2. Add plantain slices and butter to the syrup and continue simmering for 15 minutes.
3. Lace each individual serving with a tablespoon of sherry and serve at once.

Technorati Tags: Filipino Desserts, food, minatamis na saging recipe, sweetened plantain

(12 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)

 Loading ...

Ingredients:
3 cups sifted flour
1 cup sifted powdered milk
3/4 cup sifted sugar
1/2 cup pound melted butter
1 teaspoon lemon or vanilla extract
Toasted pinipig

Preparations:
1. Toast flour in a heavy skillet or saucepan over moderate heat until light brown, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and cool.
2. Add powdered milk, sugar, melted butter, pinipig, and lemon or vanilla extract.
3. Form little cakes the diameter of a silver dollar but about a quarter-inch high.
4. Wrap individually in wax paper.

Technorati Tags: Filipino Desserts, polvoron, recipe, sweet