one filipino dish a week

Filipinos love to snack. Mirienda is the 4th and 5th meal of the day. The Girl was making binignit and I love binignit. Binignit is a great mirienda item. Growing up this was made in my house during Good Friday. It’s an amazing afternoon snack. It’s also good on a nice cold day. This is a perfect winter afternoon snack.

For this version weused gabi (white taro), camote (sweet potato), plantains, canned langka (jackfruit), tapioca pearls, and frozen coconut milk. There are versions where cassava (yuca), ube (purple yam), saba bananas and sago are used.

The version that I remember growing up is using landang and not tapioca or sago. We used small tapioca pearls because that’s all we could find at the Asian store.

This is how we made it: first dice the root crops and the plantains. Cut the jackfruit into strips. Boil water and drop the root crops and the tapioca. Simmer until they are slightly tender. It doesn’t taste good if they are mushy either. Mix in the bananas, coconut milk, brown sugar, and vanilla extract. Simmer for a few minutes and then mix in the jackfruit.

Serve warm! Keeps you warm in a nice cold day. It tasted real good and hit the spot. I would like to try these again with fresh coconut milk, landang and ube.