INGREDIENTS:
- ¼ cup monggo beans
- 2 cups glutinous rice (malagkit)
- 2 grated mature coconuts (niyog) for the milk and cream (you may also use canned)
- 1 & ½ cups sugar
- warm water
HOW TO COOK:
- Start by toast monggo beans in a pan until golden brown.
- Remove the monggo beans’ skin.
- Wash glutinous rice in water and soak until grains swell.
- In a sauce pan, combine glutinous rice with toasted monggo beans. Set aside.
- To prepare coconut milk and cream, add 1 cup of warm water to the grated niyog then squeeze out coconut cream. Set aside.
- Add 6 cups of warm water and extract coconut milk from the grated niyog.
- Strain the coconut milk and the coconut cream separately.
- Add sugar to coconut milk and combine with the glutinous rice and toasted monggo beans.
- Cook and stir until mixture is set.
- Remove from heat and add the coconut cream.
- You may add sugar or salt, according to desired taste.
- Serve hot/ warm and enjoy!
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Also try: Ginataang Munggo at Mais
