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Dioscorea alata – also called ube (/ ˈ uː b ɛ,-b eɪ /), ubi, purple yam, or greater yam, among many other names – is a species of yam (a tuber). The tubers are usually a vivid violet - purple to bright lavender in color (hence the common name), but some range in color from cream to plain white.
It is a type of filled pastillas with a filling of yema, a very sweet traditional Filipino custard confectionary. [3] Other variants also use other flavors and ingredients, like pastillas de mani (peanuts), pastillas de pili , pastillas de ube , pastillas de mangga , and so on.
Ube is the Tagalog word for purple yam, but don't confuse it with the nearly identical purple sweet potato, also called the Okinawa sweet potato, or taro. While ube and purple sweet potatoes are ...
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Ube ice cream. The Japan-based flavor company T. Hasegawa might have named ube as its 2024 flavor of the year, but many people around the world have been singing ube's praises for decades (and ...
Ube crinkles, also known as purple yam crinkles, are Filipino cookies made from purple yam, flour, eggs, baking powder, butter, and sugar. They are characteristically deep purple in color and are typically rolled in powdered sugar or glazed.
Yams at Port-Vila market A piece of cake made with ube (purple yam; Philippines) In the Philippines, the purple ube species of yam (D. alata), is eaten as a sweetened dessert called ube halaya, and is also used as an ingredient in another Filipino dessert, halo-halo. It is also used as a popular ingredient for ice cream. [citation needed]
Ube ice cream is a common ingredient in halo-halo, a popular Filipino dessert consisting of a mix of various ingredients, such as coconut, sago, sweetened beans, slices of fruit such as jackfruit or mango, leche flan and nata de coco, and ube itself in halaya form. Ube is seen as an essential ingredient of halo-halo due to lending the dessert ...