Filipino Desserts

Ingredients:
3 cups fresh coconut cream, no water added
1 cup fresh milk
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup water
5 pcs pandan (fragrant screw pine) leaves
2 cups white sugar
4 cups ube pulp (yam), peeled, boiled and mashed finely
1 tbsp salt
1/4 cup fresh butter
3/4 cup cornstarch

Directions:
1. In a wok medium heat, mix all ingredients together thoroughly. Make sure mixture is free of lumps.
2. Turn to low when maja mixture starts to boil. Stir continuously to prevent mixture from scorching
3. When mixture starts to glisten, maja is fully cooked.
4. Immediately transfer to baking casserole to set. Discard pandan leaves. Slice and serve when cool. Top with toasted grated coconut.

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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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