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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Toni

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Fret no more as you flip through pages and pages of tasty and delectable dessert recipes all Filipino made and inspired. Forget searching through your kitchen drawers for recipes of Filipino dishes. End your wishful thinking of making your own Filipino food. With filipinodesserts.net, you can start exploring Filipino cuisine right in the heart of your homey kitchen.

Browse our online recipe database devoted to a homemade Filipino cuisine. Discover detailed recipes of Filipino quick desserts that you will savor and love the distinct taste from the merge of Oriental and Occidental influences.

Filipinos love to eat. Besides the usual three meals per day, Filipinos have an afternoon snack (or merienda), a morning snack and when hunger creeps late, a midnight snack is the last snack before calling it a day. Filipino food has a way of making you crave for more all day.

Over the years, merienda food changed to being less and less nutritional. Occasional treat is fine however if you plan to indulge, you might as well make healthier choices of snacks.

You have come to the right place. Philippine recipes offer the best meriendas – it’s both healthy and filling. Enjoy exploring Filipino food recipes only found here in filipinodesserts.net.

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Baked bilo-bilo in coconut cream recipe

Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by Toni

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Add variety to your favorite bilo bilo stuffed with mongo mixture.  Bilo-bilo stuffed with mongo mixture, poured with coconut sauce and then baked.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup mongo, boiled and mashed
1/2 cup white sugar
2 cups ground pure malagkit or glutinous rice soaked in water
refined white sugar

Sauce:
3 cup coconut milk
3 /4 - 1 cup white sugar divided
1-1/2 tbsp. cornstarch
1 cup coconut cream
dry banana leaves

Procedure:
1. Combine mongo and sugar. Cook with constant stirring until thick. Set aside.
2. Place ground malagkit in a cheese cloth. squeeze out water.
3. Transfer to a bowl. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar. Form 1 tablespoon of the mixture into balls.
4. Fill the center with sweetened mongo. Do the same with the rest of the mixture.
5. Grease a square pan and line with banana leaves. Arrange the balls on the pan. Set aside.
6. Combine coconut milk and 1/2 cup sugar in a saucepan. Cook over moderate heat for 10 minutes while continuously stirring.
7. Pour into balls in the pan. Cover with banana leaves. Bake at 350 deg F for 1 1/2 hours or until cooked.
8. Meanwhile, dissolve cornstarch in 1 cup coconut creamed the remaining sugar.
9. Cook over low heat for 3 minutes.
10. Pour over the malagkit balls to thicken the sauce.
11. Bake for 5-10 more minutes

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Filipino Chicken Macaroni Salad recipe

Posted on February 17th, 2010 by Toni

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Ingredients:
1/5 kilo macaroni noodles
2 to 3 pieces, medium sized carrots
1 big chicken breast
500 ml of mayonnaise
1 can (836 g) pineapple chunks or tidbits
1 big white onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup sweet pickle relish
3 hardboiled eggs, diced
1 cup diced cheddar cheese
1/2 cup raisins
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Cook macaroni noodles according to package cooking instructions.
2. In a pot, boil carrots in water for 15 to 20 minutes or until cooked.
3. Drain carrots. Let cool. Peel skin then dice.
4. Boil chicken breast in water with salt. Drain chicken breast, then shred in 1 inch lengths.
5. Drain pineapple chunks or tidbits.
6. Combine all ingredients while adding salt and pepper, to taste.
7. Serve chilled.

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Easy crema de fruta recipe

Posted on December 31st, 2009 by Toni

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Ingredients:
graham crackers
2 can condensed milk
big can of fruit cocktail

Directions:
1. Layer a dish with the graham crackers.
2. Pour some condensed milk over it, put a layer of the fruit cocktail.
3. Add another layer of graham crackers. Alternate the ingredients until your container is filled.
4. Refrigerate before serving.
5. Best serve chilled.

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Mango float on a chiffon cake

Posted on December 28th, 2009 by Toni

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Ingredients:
1 cup heavy cream, chilled
2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk, chilled
1/2 cup mashed ripe mango
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Thin slices of ripe mangoes
slices of chiffon cake

Garnish: (optional)
Mango slices
Cashew nuts or any chopped nuts you may prefer to use
Maraschino cherries

Directions:
1. Blend cream and sweetened condensed milk together. Add mashed mango. Add vanilla. Set aside, preferably keeping it chilled until needed.
2. In a square 9 x 9-inch or a rectangular 9 x 13-inch Pyrex or any transparent dish, assemble graham crackers and cream mixture by arranging the crackers on the bottom of the dish.
3. Spread one third of the cream mixture, arrange some mango slices. Put another layer of the crackers. Repeat the process, ending with the cream mixture on top.
4. Sprinkle with chopped nuts (optional). Garnish with more slices of mangoes or maraschino cherries for a more festive appeal.
5. Chill before serving.




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Pichi pichi (steamed cassava cake) Filipino Recipe

Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by Toni

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Pichi-pichi is a steamed Filipino dessert made of coconut and cassava or kamoteng kahoy. It is another widely enjoyed delicious native delicacy in the Philippines. This Filipino delicacy was introduced in Quezon province, Philippines. It is also now being made and sold at Mariz Restaurant, Magapit, Lal-lo, Cagayan.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups grated cassava
food coloring
1 cup sugar
1 bundle of pandan leaves, boiled in 2 cups of water until reduced to one cup, and cooled (or canned pandan concentrate, or a few drops of pandan essence in a cup of warm water)
1/2 tsp lye water “lihiya”
grated coconut for topping

Directions:
1. Mix the sugar and the pandan flavored water . Continue mixing until sugar is dissolved.
2. Mix the cassava. Add the lye water drop by drop mixing well as you do so.
3. Pour into a mold or bowl that fits a bamboo steamer. Steam until the mixture becomes translucent.
4. Scoop out the cooked mixture while still hot. You can use an ice cream scoop or a tablespoon. Roll into grated

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Filipino Buko Fruit Salad recipe

Posted on November 12th, 2009 by Toni

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I always look forward to taste Filipino fruit salad in most special occasions. The word “buko” means young, green coconut. Buko is one of the main ingredients of Filipino sweets and deserts.

Here is the recipe of Filipino buko fruit salad. Make your own Filipino buko fruit salad as a tasty treat no matter where you may be in the world.

Ingredients:
1 large can of regular fruit cocktail
1 large can of tropical fruit cocktail
1 package shredded buko (young coconut strips)
1 can of condensed milk
2 cans of all purpose cream
½ or 1 bar of cheddar cheese cut into cubes (optional)

Directions:
1. Drain syrup from fruit cocktails can, shredded coconuts and bottles of nata de coco. Tip: Drain them quickly by combining them all together in a strainer. Leave the ingredients there for 10 to 20 minutes to drain any excess syrup.
2. Place drained fruit cocktails, shredded coconut and nata de coco in a large mixing bowl.
3. Add condensed milk. Mix well.
4. Add all purpose cream and cubed cheddar cheese.
5. Put the large bowl in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes to 1 hour. I prefer to chill the buko fruit salad overnight.

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Filipino style sweet macaroni salad

Posted on November 12th, 2009 by Toni

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Ingredients:
1 cup elbow macaroni
1 cup raisins
1.5 cups nata de coco (coconut gel), drained
1 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup pineapple chunks, drained

Directions:
1. Boil the macaroni pasta until tender. Follow the directions in the product package.
2. Drain the water when done. Set aside to cool for about 15 minutes.
3. Transfer the cooled macaroni into a large mixing bowl. Pour the rest of the ingredients.
4. Mix the ingredients well.
5. Cover the mixing bowl with cling plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least an hour.
6. Best served cold.


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Cebuano binignit or guinataan recipe

Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Toni

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Binignit is a stew made of rich and creamy root crops in coconut milk.  It is perfect as desserts.

Ingredients:
1 pc white gabi (taro root) you can substitute cassava if available, cubed
1/2 cup sugar
2 pcs yellow camote (sweet potatoes), cubed
1/2 tsp salt
1 pc ube (purple yam), cubed
4 tbsps landang or tapioca
4 pcs ripe saba banana (plantain), sliced
6 pcs ripe langka (jackfruit)
2 cups coconut milk
1 cup coconut milk, diluted with water

Directions:
1. Cook gabi, camote, ube, and saba or plantain bananas in diluted coconut milk. Optional: I boil hard ingredients then drain them before adding diluted coconut milk. I t saves me lots of time.
2. Add sugar, salt, and landing or tapioca. Add sugar according to preference.
3. Add strips of langka then simmer until all ingredients are tender and mixture is thick.
4. Add 2 cups coconut milk. Cook in medium heat.
5. Do not boil or liquid will curdle. Adjust amount of coconut milk to the rest of the ingredients.
6. Serve hot.



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Suman sa ibos (sweet rice in banana leaves) recipe

Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Toni

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Ingredients:

4 cups malagkit rice (glutinous rice )
1-1/2 tablespoons salt
3 cups thick coconut milk
buli leaves (for wrapping the suman)

Directions:

1. Wash rice and soak with water until it swells. Mix with 2 cups coocnut milk and salt.
2. Wrap mixture in prepared buli leaves (do not fill them up completely)
3. Place suman in large container. Fill with water and remaining 1 cup coconut milk until suman is completely immersed.
4. Let boil until suman is cooked. Served with sugar and ripe mangoes.


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