Halo-Halo Recipe

    HALO-HALO RECIPE

    (famous Filipino Dessert.)

Ingredients:

• 1 ripe large banana
• 2 ripe mangoes or 1 cup canned ripe mango
• 1 cup firm gelatin set into gel and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
• 1 cup canned ripe jackfruit
• 1/2 cup sweet corn or chick peas (garbanzos)
• 1 cup young shredded coconut, fresh or canned
• 1 cup cooked sweet yams or (ube halaya) glutinous purple yam,  cut into 1-inch cubes
• 2 cup shaved ice

• 2 cup milk
• 4 scoops of favorite ice cream
• 1/2 cup chopped peanuts or rice krispies

 Preparation: 

• Peel mangoes and slice the meat into 1/2-inch cubes. Discard the seeds.
• Prepare 4 tall glasses. Divide each ingredient into 4 equal parts.
• In each glass place 1/4 of each ingredient, adding layer by layer starting with corn or chick peas, cooked sweet yams, jackfruit, bananas, coconut, and gelatin.
  
• Top with 1/2 cup shaved ice.
• Pour 1/4 cup milk over shaved ice and top with a scoop of ice cream.
• Sprinkle nuts or rice krispies over it.

 

Pork Siomai Recipe (steamed pork dumplings)

 Pork Siomai Filipino St;ye Recipe

Ingridients;

1 kg ground pork (suggested proportion of fat to lean meat is 1:3)

1/3 cup chopped water chestnuts or turnips (singkamas)

1/3 cup chopped carrots

2 medium or 1 large minced onion(s)

bunch of spring onions or leeks

1 egg

5 tablespoons sesame oil

1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper

1 teaspoon salt

50 pcs. large or 100 pcs. small wanton or siomai wrapper

soy sauce, calamansi (lemon or kumquats), sesame oil and chilli paste (for the sauce) 

Wrapper:
1/4 cup water
1 egg
1 tablespoon vegetable or corn oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Cooking Directioons;

1. Combine all the ingredients except for the water and wanton wrapper and mix throughly.
2.  Wrap the mixed ingredients using the won ton wrapper. (watch the video for easy procedure)
3.  Using a steamer, steam the wrapped siomai (shaomai) for 15 to 25 minutes. The time depends on the size of each individual piece (larger size means more time steaming).
4. Serve hot with kikkoman soy sauce and calamansi or lemon dip.