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A traditional pastry, young coconut filled pie. Camote cue: Tagalog Deep fried kamote with caramelised brown sugar. Cascaron: Negros Occidental A dessert made of rice flour, coconut and sugar. Coconut jam: A food spread, a custard jam in the general sense, consumed mainly in Southeast Asia and made from a base of coconut and sugar. Leche flan
Filipino cuisine is composed of the cuisines of more than a hundred distinct ethnolinguistic groups found throughout the Philippine archipelago.A majority of mainstream Filipino dishes that comprise Filipino cuisine are from the food traditions of various ethnolinguistic groups and tribes of the archipelago, including the Ilocano, Pangasinan, Kapampangan, Tagalog, Bicolano, Visayan, Chavacano ...
Buko pie and ingredients. This is a list of Filipino desserts.Filipino cuisine consists of the food, preparation methods and eating customs found in the Philippines.The style of cooking and the food associated with it have evolved over many centuries from its Austronesian origins to a mixed cuisine of Malay, Spanish, Chinese, and American influences adapted to indigenous ingredients and the ...
The various precolonial peoples of the Philippine archipelago often cooked or prepared their food with vinegar and salt in various techniques to preserve them in the tropical climate. Vinegar, in particular, is one of the most important ingredients in Filipino cuisine, with the main traditional types being coconut, cane, nipa palm, and kaong palm.
According to Filipino food historian Felice Prudente-Sta. Maria, carinderias and "karihans" (a term used interchangeably with carinderias) in the Philippines were influenced by the presence of British Sepoys. British Sepoys were Indian natives who deserted British General William Draper's fleet around 1764 during the British occupation of Manila.
Halo-halo made in San Diego County, California. Halo-halo, also spelled haluhalo, Tagalog for "mixed", is a popular cold dessert in the Philippines made up of crushed ice, evaporated milk or coconut milk, and various ingredients including side dishes such as ube jam (), sweetened kidney beans or garbanzo beans, coconut strips, sago, gulaman (), pinipig, boiled taro or soft yams in cubes, flan ...
Chinese traders supplied the silk sent to Mexico and Spain in the Manila galleon trade. In return, they took back products of field, forest (such as beeswax, rattan) and sea (such as, beche de mer). Evidence of Chinese influence in Philippine food is easy to find, since the names are an obvious clue.
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity. [1] Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, [2] their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, [3] [4] and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers.