Follow your cravings this rainy season; prepare Suman Malagkit for the whole family!

Suman Malagkit

Hello moms! It's been raining for weeks now. Cold days makes me crave for different types of food like hot ramen, bilu-bilo and most especially, suman kakanin. Actually, it's not just me me who crave for this super duper addictive suman recipe of my mom but also my kids. My mom's suman recipe is an original recipe of her grand mom from Batangas. As we all know, Batangas is very popular when it comes to making delicious kakanin like suman malagkit. For those who are not familiar with Pinoy's suman malagkit, it is a type of kakanin made of glutinous rice, coconut milk and salt wrapped in banana leaves, this is the classic recipe of suman malagkit, but when you say "suman Batangas" it's the suman recipe in which sugar is already added. Unlike the classic suman recipe which you have to dip in sugar to attain desired sweetness, suman batangas has a combination of creamy, a bit salty and sweet sticky rice with the banana leaves aroma that you can't resist.

Making this suman recipe is not as difficult as you thought, like any other tasks, when you get used to it, you can surely make it with pride. when my mom passed away, I stopped enjoying the sweet taste of her suman recipe because I never tried to make it, until one day, when my tummy really misses my mom's suman recipe, I started to recall the way she cooks our favorite suman Batangas. I'm lucky to have that photographic memory, I was 10 when I last saw my mom making this recipe, but the procedure clearly comes in my mind...one by one. Now I'm gonna share the exact suman recipe of my late mom and I hope like me and my kids, you'd lve it too!

Ingredients:

• 1 kg. Malagkit (glutinous rice)
• 1/2 tbsp. salt
• 1/4 kg white sugar
• 500 ml of coconut milk (kakang gata)
• banana leaves (for wrapping)
• 1 liter water for boiling

Procedure:

• Half cook the glutinous rice with in coconut milk with constant stirring until it becomes sticky then remove from heat.
• Scoop the cooked malagkit then wrap in banana leaves atleast 5 inches long and thickness not bigger than 1 peso coin.
• Put banana leaves left-over as the base of your suman then put the wrapped malagkit in a casserole with one liter of water.( Make sure to put banana leaves in the casserole before arranging or putting the wrapped malagkit inside,this is to prevent sticking the suman from the bottom of the casserole.)
• In a medium heat,cook the suman for one hour or more. Check the tenderness every once in a while.
• If you think it's not done yet, you can add water then let it boil again till cooked.

Categories: kakanin recipe suman suman batangas suman malagkit suman recipe

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How to cook Laing

Laing is one of my most favorite ginataan (cooked in coconut milk) recipe. It is made up of gabi leaves, stalks and its root crop. Not all kinds of gabi (taro) can be used in this recipe. There's only one kind, in tagalog they called it tipay. Here's how to make laing:

Ingredients:

1/2 kg. dried gabi (taro) leaves,stalks and it's crop.(sun dried for two days)

300 ml coconut milk

1/4 kg.dried fish or dilis

1 onion chopped

3 pcs. garlic minced

50 g. garlic sliced

4 g.fine black pepper

1 tsp.iodized salt

3 pcs. red hot chili

msg.(optional)

Procedure:

-Dry cook dilis or dried fish until it becomes brown. (set aside)

-Heat oil on a pan and add ginger and garlic, wait until a brown color appears

-Add onion

-Add chili

-Add pre-cooked dried fish, cook until brown (stir)

-Add dried leaves,stalks and crop

-Cover the pan, cook for 20 mins. (check every once in a while to prevent the vegetable to stick in the pan)

-Add small amount of water if necessary. Boil for another 2 mins.

-Add the coconut milk and seasoning

-Let boil for another minutes until the coconut milk becomes oil.

-Adjust seasoning if needed

Serve with Rice.

Categories: bicol express dilis dried fish filipino filipino dish gabi laing philippines pinoy dish recipe taro

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How to cook Laing

Laing is one of my most favorite ginataan (cooked in coconut milk) recipe. It is made up of gabi leaves, stalks and its root crop. Not all kinds of gabi (taro) can be used in this recipe. There's only one kind, in tagalog they called it tipay. Here's how to make laing:

Ingredients:

1/2 kg. dried gabi (taro) leaves,stalks and it's crop.(sun dried for two days)

300 ml coconut milk

1/4 kg.dried fish or dilis

1 onion chopped

3 pcs. garlic minced

50 g. garlic sliced

4 g.fine black pepper

1 tsp.iodized salt

3 pcs. red hot chili

msg.(optional)

Procedure:

-Dry cook dilis or dried fish until it becomes brown. (set aside)

-Heat oil on a pan and add ginger and garlic, wait until a brown color appears

-Add onion

-Add chili

-Add pre-cooked dried fish, cook until brown (stir)

-Add dried leaves,stalks and crop

-Cover the pan, cook for 20 mins. (check every once in a while to prevent the vegetable to stick in the pan)

-Add small amount of water if necessary. Boil for another 2 mins.

-Add the coconut milk and seasoning

-Let boil for another minutes until the coconut milk becomes oil.

-Adjust seasoning if needed

Serve with Rice.

Categories: bicol express filipino filipino dish gabi laing philippines pinoy dish recipe taro

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Arrozcaldo with malunggay (moringa) recipe

During rainy season, we want hot soup or hot meal on our table. Arrozcaldo is one of the best meal to serve in breakfast. This recipe is not the classic arrozcaldo. I put a twist in it by adding malunggay leaves. Malunggay is very well known in the Philippines when it comes to nutrients and vitamins thus making this simple recipe to be one of the healthy recipes that you can offer to your family.

Malunggay is a Tagalog term for moringa. It is considered as miracle herb in today's generation due to its reserved health benefits that are very essential to our our body. According to the scientific studies, malunggay contains: SEVEN times the vitamin C that oranges has, FOUR times the Calcium we can get from milk, FOUR times the vitamin A we found in carrots, TWO times the protein that milk has and THREE times the Potassium we get from bananas.

Ingredients:
1/4 kg sticky rice
1/4 chicken wings
4 boiled eggs sliced
1 small piece ginger sliced
1 big onion sliced
3 pcs. minced garlic
4gms. fine black pepper
1 tsp. iodized salt
msg (optional)
1 li. water

malunggay leaves
2 tbsp.margarine


Procedure:

• Heat margarine on a deep pan.
• Add ginger wait until it becomes brown
• Add garlic again until it becomes brown then add onion
• Add washed rice and water
• Add seasoning (adjust if needed)
• Boil for 30 mins. (adjust water if necessary)
• Add malunggay leaves and sliced boiled eggs.
• Boil for another 5 mins.
• You can add chicken meat if you like. But when it comes to healthy diet, Arrozcaldo with Malunggay is more that a complete meal. 
• Serve hot.

Categories: arrozcaldo breakfast malunggay recipe

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Saute Vegetables with Sardines

Saute vegetable is the easiest and healthiest recipe that you can cook at home. Saute vegetables is usually a combination of vegetables which is commonly found in the market. Some people prepare it with meat or chicken but I like to add seafood fresh or in-can since I've been avoiding fatty foods for two years now. This recipe is very simple and very affordable. It's up to you if you want to cook it with meat.

Ingredients:

1/4 kg.Assorted vegetables like; beans, cabbage, okra, sigarilyas and patola

1 onion

 2 cloves minced garlic

 1/4 kg ground pork or 1 can of sardines

 2 tbsp oil

 1/3 tsp. iodized salt

  msg (optional)

Procedure:

Step 1:   Saute garlic and onion

Step 2:   Saute meat for 20 minutes or sardines for 5 mnutes.

Step 3:   Put the vegetables and cover until its natural juices come out.

Step 4:   Mix once in a while

Step 5:  Serve hot with rice

                  

Categories: recipe saute vegetable

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