Filipino Food Recipes

Turon, one of the favorite afternoon snacks among Filipinos, is made up of slice of ripe saba banana dip in sugar and wrapped with lumpia wrapper. It is then deep fried in vegetable oil for even cooking. To add aroma and improve its flavor, cinnamon powder were dusted or slice of jackfruit and it is wrapped together with the banana before frying.

Puto-Pao is a coined word from PUTO (steamed rice muffins) and SioPAO (Chinese steamed bun). Like siopao, the puto-pao has similar fillings, it could be asado or meat balls. Fillings are cook first before putting inside the muffins. Puto-pao is completed by putting slices of salted egg as toppings.

This is a easy puto recipe in which the ingredients are available in supermarkets. Traditional puto is made up of rice flour (galapong). However, we can also make puto out of the ordinary all purpose flour. To have good result, it would be better if you can have good quality branded flour. We can even make our puto looks nice by adding toppings such as cheese or slices of salted egg, or the combination of both.

Polvoron is consist of powder milk, flour, sugar and butter toasted in low fire. It is molded and wrapped with colored cellophane or Japanese paper to look like a candy. There are also variants of the polvoron. The most popular variant is polvoron with crushed peanut. Also we have polvoron with cheese. Other variants that I heard of is polvoron with crushed cashew nuts.

Pichi-pichi is a Filipino dessert with grated cassava (kamoteng kahoy) as the base ingredient. It is a soft and sticky dessert yet delicious. The recipe that I prepared is a natural flavored pichi-pichi. But this will not stop you to add flavor. Like pandan, you can extract its flavor by boiling water with bundle of pandan leaves and use that water to dilute the ingredients

This dish is very easy to make and does not need much cooking skills to come with good result.

Pancake, also known as Hot Cake amongst Filipinos, is a fried cake. It is served while it is still hot and fresh from frying pan. This could be the reason why we called it Hot Cake. It is at its best taste while it is still hot. Although readymade pancake mix is readily available in grocery stores, this dish is very easy to make. The effort of love you pour in preparing this dish will be very much appreciated. It’s good for breakfast, morning or afternoon breaks.

One of the most popular desserts served by Filipino during special occasions such birthdays, fiestas, Christmas celebration is the Leche Flan. It a simple and easy to make yet delicious. I learned to make this dessert when I was still in grade school. I joined my mom in the preparation of ingredients and the proper way of mixing it. If you already have the right ratio of the number of eggs, amount of sugar and milk, the secret of fine and smooth looking Leche Flan is proper mixing. Mixing the all the ingredients manually and gently is better than using an electric mixer.