Since its Thanksgiving on Thursday and it means there will be food on the table. I decided to share some popular Filipino snacks or desserts. Filipinos are known to have a hearty appetite and just love to eat. In fact, a typical Filipino eats three meals a day and two snacks in between. One funny fact in our snacks is that bananas are the most common ingredients in most of our snack.
One of the most common snacks we eat is the Banana Q. It is a popular snack so easy to make. The banana is coated with caramelized brown sugar then just deep fry. It is skewered on a bamboo stick, like a barbeque, so you can eat it easily. You can buy this on the streets or just make one at home.
Another snack is the suman. Suman is a rice cake made of glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk. They wrap it on banana or coconut leaves then arrange it on a big saucepan and steam it. The usual cooking time for suman is 2 hours until it is cook. Quite long but it is really good especially when you put margarine or butter then coats it with sugar. It’s really good!
There is also the turon. This is a healthy dessert and an all time favorite snack. The making of turon is so affordable and also easy-to-prepare. It is just made of thinly sliced bananas and a slice of jackfruit, dusted with brown sugar, rolled in spring roll wrapper and fry. You will know it’s already cook when the wrapper turns to golden brown. This snack is really sweet but truly good. You usually see on the streets being peddled along with banana q.
If Korea have patbingsu and Singapore have ice kachang; We Filipinos have halo-halo. Halo-halo (mix-mix) is the most popular and favorite snack food in the Philippines. Literally from its name, you really need to mix the halo-halo a lot of times so you can eat it properly. Summer is the perfect season for this snack; it is a mixture of red beans, coconut meat, jackfruit strips, pounded dried rice, sweet yam, leche flan, slice of banana, filled with crushed ice and milk. You can also put ice cream on top but it’s your choice. It is a sweet and creamy dessert and for sure you guys will love it too.
This entry really made me hungry. I wish my dad can serve this on Thanksgiving.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
I tried that banana barbeque before. It has interesting taste (sweet of course). Malen, I like your last picture, it looks like ice cream for me and I love it so much. Even in the winter season I eat ice-cream.