Feb. 9, 2009 - Suman!
Ever since we left the Philippines I have been craving suman, so over the weekend we finally got around to buying the necessary ingredients and I looked up a recipe on the internet. The final result wasn't quite what I had expected, because I had used too much water when cooking it the second time and the rice was sort of floppy and didn't hold together very well. However, letting it sit and cool for a while helped and overall I am very pleased. Here are some pictures:
The Ingredients: Banana leaves, coconut milk, brown sugar and malagkit rice.
Once the rice is cooked, (using 2/3 of the can of coconut milk with some water to balance it out) I placed a couple spoonfulls onto each piece of banana leaf, and then folded it like a burrito.
When I had wrapped all of my rice, I put them in a pan, and put just enough coconut milk (the rest of the can diluted with water) to cover them.
Then I let them boil for at least an hour. I should have let them boil until the water was gone, but as I said before, I added too much water, so that wasn't very practical. I took them out after watching a movie, and then we ate them dipped in brown sugar.
Aaaaah! My craving has been satisfied. :)
And now, just one more picture: While we were at the Filipino grocery store in town, we also bought some hot tamarind candies with chili powder. They're very good.
~Joy Bird
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Feb. 25, 2009 - Masarap!
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