Wondering what to eat for Holy Week? Have Binignit!
Binignit is a Filipino delicacy that is favored mostly by Visayans or Bisaya, especially Cebuanos. This very Pinoy dish is a cornucopia of earth’s produce. Binignit is among the most favorite menu for Halloween.
Ingredients:
1 cup sweet potatoes (kamote), diced
1 cup taro roots (gabi), diced
2 cups plantains (saging na saba), diced
2 cups purple yam, diced
2 cups colorful sago/tapioca pearls, precooked
12 to 20 pieces glutinous rice balls (bilo-bilo)
1 cup granulated white sugar
4 cups coconut milk
2 cups water
Instructions: 1. Place water in a large cooking pot and apply heat. Let boil. 2. Put 1¾ cups of coconut milk then wait until it re-boils. 3. Add in the sweet potatoes, purple yam, and taro roots and simmer for 8 minutes. 4. Add in the remaining coconut milk, sugar, and glutinous rice balls then stir. Simmer for 7 minutes. 5. Add the plantains then cook for an additional 2 minutes. 6. Put in the jack fruit and cook for 2 minutes more. 7. Slowly slide in the cooked tapioca pearls then stir. Simmer for 1 minute. 8. Turn off the heat and transfer to a serving plate. 9. Serve either hot or cold.
