Filipino

Ampaw or Ampao (Filipino puffed rice), is a favorite Cebuano snack. A popular ampao in Cebu is the ampaw carcar; it's a bar-shaped puffed rice snack with peanuts. It’s puffy, crunchy, sweet, sticky, and simply delicious. Usually, the dish is made of left-over rice, sun-dried, and cooked until puffy. This snack gets  more popular and is now made commercially and sold locally or even abroad. 

This fun snack is a kid’s favorite, and even adults love and enjoy it. This is a must-try recipe; it is very easy to make.

Cassava suman or suman kamoteng kahoy is a delicious Filipino delicacy eaten as a dessert or snack. Making this recipe is very simple and easy.

Pork Binagoongan recipe is a classic Filipino dish that’s rich, savory, and packed with bold flavors. The star of this recipe is pork, the most commonly used protein, which is stewed until tender in a flavorful sauce made with shrimp paste (bagoong).

Pork Pinakupsan Bites is a Visayan delicacy; it’s crispy and delicious. It's made of pork and cut into serving bites, seasoned with salt to taste, and fried with their own fats until crisp and golden. The dish is similar to the lechon kawali, but the lechon kawali needs an incredible amount of cooking oil for deep-frying the pork. The pork pinakupsan cooks only on its own rendered fat until crispy.

This Ube Jelly Buko Salad Recipe is perfect to serve on any occasion. The dessert dish is made of sweet young coconut combined with diced ube-flavored gelatine and cooked tapioca pearls, or sago. Then mix together with milk sweeteners and chill for a couple of hours to have a delicious cold desert. This Filipino cold dessert is often served at birthday parties and town fiestas. Try this dessert dish; it is really simple and quick to make.

The Ginisang Ampalaya with Giniling Recipe is a delicious and nutritious dish. Ampalaya is known for bitter taste, but when prepared properly, it can be tasty.

This Calderetang Kambing recipe, or Kaldereta, is Filipino goat stew. The dish is made of goat meat, cooked until tender, and simmered with tomato-liver sauce along with spices and vegetables. Of course, season with certain seasonings to give the dish a hearty texture and a robust savory flavor. The soft, meaty texture of the dish with savory sauce makes it perfect to serve as an appetizer with alcoholic beverages or as a main dish with steamed rice.

This recipe of kalamay hati is so delicious; it is one of my favorite kakanin, a Filipino rice cake recipe. It tastes sweet and sticky; this rice cake dish is perfect as a dessert or a snack. The dish is made of glutinous rice along with coconut milk and sugar. It is constantly stirred while cooking until the mixture thickens and forms a smooth dough. After cooking, it is topped with latik, a coconut milk curd, or crushed peanuts. Try this straightforward kalamay hati recipe. Let us know what you think of this Filipino recipe.

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Masi, or peanut-stuffed sticky rice balls, is one of the best kakanin specialty foods in Cebu. The authentic Masi is made of “Tapul Pilit” glutinous rice; Bisaya means "purple." To make the Masi, the rice dough is formed into a small ball, filled with a peanut mixture, and cooked in boiling water. The dish is snack-bite -sized; it is delightful, soft, sweet, chewy, and nutty; it's perfect to consume for a hungry stomach. In this recipe, we use white glutinous rice with peanut mixture fillings. Try this authentic Cebuano recipe; it is quick and super easy to make, and in just less than 30 minutes, you have your "masi," or peanut-stuffed sticky rice balls. By the way, if you don’t like peanuts, substitute them with your prepared nuts if desired.