Hey guys I will share with you all the recipe on how to make binignit (in Bisaya) or ginataan (in Tagalog) in our own recipe. It’s just really simple and quick. Here’s the list of ingredients that we use. I hope that it will be easy for you to get it.
Cooking Ginataan, or Binignit
Ingredients:
- 6 cups coconut milk
- 8 cups of water
- 2 cups of brown sugar
- 1/4 lb langka (jackfruit) julienne cut
- 4 pieces of banana (Saba here in the Philippines) (plantains) cut into cubes
- 3 pieces of sweet potato (kamote) cut into cubes
- 1/4 lb landang
- 1/2 lb of ground sweet rice
- 1 lb sago (tapioca pearl or tapioca balls) different colors
*To make the dough balls, moisten the rice flour with water just until it sticks together. Roll the dough into 1/4 inch balls.
*On the side boil water for the sweet potato and banana to be cooked. It is better to cook it separately so that it will be quicker.
First put around 8 cups of water in the pot and let it boil. Then gently drop around half cup of sweet rice or regular sweet rice will do and the sweet rice dough balls, let it simmer until the rice becomes soft and the sweet dough balls will rise on top when its cooked.
Next, put the landang (not sure what you call that in Tagalog and English). When the landang softens put the coconut milk about 4 cups and let it simmer for about 15 minutes. Then, put the a cup and a half of sugar keep tasting it until you reach your desired sweetness. Really, it depends on how sweet you want it. Then, add the rest of the coconut milk and let it simmer for a few minutes. Next, drop the the tapioca balls and let it continue to simmer for 10 minutes and keep stirring it so that it will not stick to the bottom of the pot since the coconut milk makes it thicker. Then put the langka and let it simmer for maybe like 5 minutes, then put the pre-cooked banana and kamote and let it simmer for 5 minutes.Taste again if its the sweetness you want. Add sugar before it cools down.
Ginataan Ingredients
Some people will put taro root (gabi) and ube or squah or pumpkin to the ginataan. Really, every household makes their own version of binignit. The one I’ve shown and wrote above is the the Bayoy/Martin household style of ginataan. Since I don’t eat gabi or squash that’s the reason I am not putting them in my ginataan. I will eat ube a little only.
Anyway I hope you will try to make some ginataan and you can share the way you cook it too. Happy eating you guys.
Cheers!
About Feyma
Wow… I made this last night! Except I use white instead of brown sugar and I don’t know what landang is. We call this “Ginataang Bilo-bilo” and it’s very yummy. One of my favorite merienda.
Yay, you finally made a post my most favorite merienda next is banana on stick,turon and buchi coated with sesame seed. Yum. Like Ms. August i used white sugar too and ubi.
Thanx for sharing your recipes Feyms. Honestly, don’t know to make it myself (bisaya style)… I was wondering what’s landang? this is my favorite merienda.
Salamat jud, parang lami man imoha sa picture.
regards,
Ann
Hi Feyma, Binignet is my husband’s favorite snack, and he tries to eat as much as he can, especially during Holy Week. Ours is made with the yellow comote, ubi, bananas, tapioca and the brown sugar and coconut milk. I read that landang is a variety of sago, but we don’t add that or sweet rice either, although it sounds good. I shouldn’t say “we” because my husband is the one who makes it! I enjoy it, but I can’t eat as much as everyone else because it is very filling. Thanks for your recipe for it.
Hi Feyma,
I hope I get your permission to just copy the recipe part for personal use only. Where Merlin and I are staying now, with her Sisters family, I am hardly allowed to feed myself. Merlin always has spoon in my mouth if I am not eating enough. hehe But when house is done I might even get to cook and I am goumet cook her and read recipes and add to taste well. I do not want to haqve to go through archives to get this. My borthers house there has been at it for almost a year now. Mine is just remoldel but still lots of months away. Looks yummy and sounds great. I will ak them to fix it for me and then compare mine at later date.hehe Both her and sister are such fantastic cooks though, and have never made anything except trying to please me with special American foods that I did not like. After I finally convinced them to just feed me what they ate, I gained a much needed 10 pounds. Have great day
Andy
Kamusta ka Feyma,
This sounds so very good, I can’t wait for Rose to cook this for me. I meant to ask Rose about this snack, but it sounds like a popular snack in Philippines.
Thanks so much for sharing this Feyma, and look forward to learn more about some of the Philippines great foods.
Salamat,
Danny
Hi Feyma,
Nakakagutom… Thanks for posting the recipe.
Here is some info about landang. I’m not sure if you can post this. http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/landang-palm-flour-jelly-balls
Salamat,
Boyet S
No matter how good it tastes, or how hungry I am. Their is no way I could get that near my mouth!
Hi Feyma,
Thank you so much for writing the recipe, am actually not so familiar
with it but I want so much to make it. My problem, I don’t know what landang is, please explain. Also the langka, I have no access to langka I was hoping you would have some suggestion, what can I put in place of the lanka? I can’t think of anything remotely like langka.
Thank you so much,
Hi Feyma My G.F. just gave me a blast for my comment. Sorry. It just looks bad, but she says it is delightful. Ok maybe I should try it first. Guy
hi feyma
how about some vegetable recipes?
maria
Hi Feyma!
Oh no, you’re so mean… This is my favorite merienda!!! I can get it here from a Filipino store but it never tastes the same. It’s so much better with fresh coconut milk. Of course, it’s bad for someone on a low-carb diet. But, when I’m in the Philippines, I am on a seefood diet. I eat everything in sight! Thanks for making me hungry. Now I will go to sleep and dream about my favorite binignit… LOL!
See you soon, ‘miga!
Hi Miss August – White sugar still works. The good sugar thats really good for kakanin is the muscovado. That’s what my family likes to used it anyway.
To be honest with you I am not sure if landang is widely use here in the Philippines. I will buy some and take a picture and show it here. Maybe people will know then what it is.
Thank you for your nice comment. Good to see you again here.
Hi Vanessa – Ha ha ha. Hey, don’t worry I will feature those kakanin that you just mention one of this days here.
Just can’t help it we like kakanin a lot.
Take care.
Hi ann – You know what I was just learning lately how to make ginatan. I ask my sisters and nieces to show me how to make it. Now I know.
I will take a picture of landang, maybe by looking at the photo you will recognize then what it is.
Good to see you again my friend. Take care.
Hi queeniebee – I think almost all Filipinos likes to eat binignit. Really each family and regions have different ways on how to make binignit. Maybe you should let your hubby try to cook the Martin way you guys might like it. You’ll never know.
Nice to see you again here. Take care.
Hi andy – Sure no problem. Just let me know what you think though.
Good for you that you have personal chefs there. Don’t worry about gaining, just try to walk and climb the mountain that near your house. I’m pretty sure you will not gain weight as much then.
Just kidding.
Thank you for stopping here. Nice to see you again.
Take care!
Hi Danny – It’s really good for us anyway. Yeah its famous here in the Philippines. I just hope you will like it. Bob doesn’t really like some of our snacks (kakanin) here in the Philippines. I can’t blame him, since he is not used to it.
Let me know if you ever try this snacks.
As always good to see you here. Take care.
Hi Boyet – Sorry that I made you hungry there. Hey maybe time to get together with friends and make kakanin.
Thank you so much for the link. Yeah thats the landang I was talking about.
Thank you for stopping by here.
Hi Guy – I can understand where you came from, that you are not used to it. But for us Filipinos we grow up with this kind of food. So for me and to all that eat this kind of food. We all would say its SO YUMMY!
Good to see you here. Keep reading.
Hello Guy,
I am just curious, why would not be able to eat this?? For what reason?
Salamat kaayo,
Danny
Hi Cina – Boyet from his comment above gave us the link where to see what landang looks like.
Can you find langka in a can there? If you cant just go with the plantain. Thats one thing for you guys out there its hard to get the ingredients that we are using here.
If you have some friends thats vacationing in the Philippines right now, maybe they can bring some for you.
Good luck.
Hi Guy – Its okay. You just are not used to it. Hopefully when you taste it you will like it.
Just let us know what you think of it though.
Take care!
Hi Maria – I will try to post some vegetable article here soon.
Thanks for the input. I really appreciate that. Thank you for stopping by!
Hi Tina – Yikes, sorry my friend I didn’t mean to hurt you. My goodness you might be eating binignit in your dreams now.
I agree fresh coconut milk is way better than the canned one.
Hey, don’t worry your not the only one on the seefood diet. I’m guilty on that. Ha ha ha.
See you soon my dear friend. Take care and hi to Ken.