INGREDIENTS:
- ½ cup ube powder (powdered dehydrated purple yam) or freshly grated ube (purple yam)
- ½ teaspoon ube flavoring
- 1 & ½ cups glutinous rice (sweet rice or malagkit)
- 4 cups coconut milk
- 1 & ¾ cups water
- 1 & ¼ cups granulated white sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- toasted grated coconut (for topping)
HOW TO COOK:
- In a cooking pot, combine glutinous rice (malagkit) and water.
- Cover and heat the pot to boil .
- Once the water starts to boil, adjust the heat to a simmer.
- Continue to cook the rice until the water is completely absorbed. Stir once in a while to prevent the rice from sticking to the cooking pot.
- In another cooking pot, pour the coconut milk and let it boil.
- Gradually add the sugar to the coconut milk while stirring.
- Add the ube powder and stir.
- Cook for 5 to 7 minutes in low to medium heat while stirring.
- Add the salt and ube flavoring.
- Continue to cook for 3 minutes or until the texture becomes thick.
- Back to our first pot, once the glutinous rice absorbs the water, combine the coconut milk mixture with the glutinous rice.
- Mix well and continue to cook, while stirring, until the rice is completely cooked and the desired texture is achieved.
- Line a serving tray with banana leaves and transfer the Ube Biko here.
- Top with toasted grated coconut. Cut, serve, and enjoy!
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Also try: Ube Kalamay
