Top List of Mouth-Watering Philippine Native Delicacies

By: Kristabel Loquias

Philippine has a different kinds of delicious native delicacies, most Overseas Filipino Workers are highly delighted on the taste of every Filipinos delicacies. We have a different fresh ingredients here in the Philippines that symbolizes the gratitude of every farmers. Some of the native delicacies are the following:

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• Suman – is a rice cake and it is made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, and often steamed wrapped in buli or buri palm (coryphia) leaves. It is usually sprinkled with sugar. Suman is a popular snack among the Filipinos. It is also served with fresh ripe mangoes for added flavor. Suman easily fulfills hunger and more often than not, it is heavy in the stomach, making the consumer full in just few bites of the delectable rice cake.

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• Cassava Cake – is a classic Filipino dessert made from grated cassava (manioc).Cassava is also known as kamoteng kahoy and balinghoy in the Philippines. Casssava starch is also used to make tapioca. Since fresh cassava dug from the ground, the people assigned in preparing the cassava needs to do the digging, cleaning, peeling, and shredding. The hardy carbohydrate rich crop is a major food staple across the developing world; in the Philippines, it is predominantly eaten as sweet.

  

• Palitaw – from the word litaw the tagalong word for “float” or “rise”. It is a small, flat, sweet rice cake eaten in the Philippines. They are made from malagkit (sticky rice) washed, soaked, and then ground. It shaped like cakes are done once they float to the surface of the boiling water and are then coated with grated coconut and dusted with a mixture of toasted sesame seeds and sugar before serving.

 

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•   Espasol – or Baye-baye is a cylinder shaped Filipino rice cake originating from the province of Laguna. It is made from rice flour cooked in coconut milk and sweetened coconut strips, dusted with toasted rice four.

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•   Biko - is just one of the ways of making a Filipino sticky rice treat. It's not a tedious process, it's just hard on the arm because of the mixing. Biko is the quintessential Filipino native delicacy. It is made from glutinous rice that is first partially cooked, then mixed with coconut milk until very thick in consistency.It’s usually chewy and takes hour to make a real labor of love.