Ginataang Bilo-Bilo
1 1/2 cups kamote (sweet potatoes),
diced
1 cup gabi (taro roots), diced
1 1/2 cups purple yam
1 1/4 cup saba* (banana plantains),
diced
1 cup ripe langka* (jackfruit),
sliced
2 cups small tapioca pearls*, cooked
(optional)
15 pieces bilo-bilo (glutinous rice
balls) (optional)
1 cup granulated white sugar
3 1/2 cups coconut milk
2 cups water
NOTE: You can make bilo-bilo by mixing 1-1/2 cup glutinous rice
flour with 3/4 cup water. Knead the rice flour and water in a mixing bowl until
it forms into smooth dough. Put some flour in your hands, and start rolling the
dough into small balls.
Cooking Instructions:
Boil water in a large cooking pot.
Add 3/4 cups of coconut milk then
wait until it re-boils.
Add the sweet potatoes, purple yam,
and taro roots and simmer for about 5-10 minutes.
Pour-in the remaining coconut milk,
sugar, and glutinous rice balls then stir. Simmer for 7 minutes.
Add the plantains then cook for an
additional 2 minutes.
Put-in the jack fruit and cook for 2
minutes more.
Slowly pour in the cooked tapioca
pearls then stir. Simmer for 1 minute.
Serve either hot or chilled and
that’s it!