Filipino Deserts? what is a white coconut flavored sauce with dough balls in it? Please Help need recipe?

Question

At Family Gatherings an aunt would make this desert which was a warm sauce covering dough balls if I remember right it was a coconut flavored sauce

Answer 1

It's called "Ginataan".

Here's how you do it...

Ingredients:

4 cups water

1 1/2 cups coconut milk

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup diced sweet potato

1 cup diced plantain (filippino banana)

3 tablespoons water

1 cup of sweet rice powder

1/4 cup tapioca

1 cup of jack fruit (optional)

Directions:

- In a large pot, bring the 4cups of water and coconut milk to boil.

- Add 1/4 cup of sugar and simmer.

- Then add sweet potatoes and plantains and simmer until half done.

- Add 3 tbs water to the sweet rice powder a little bit at a time until it becomes a big dough ball. Take a little of the mixture at a time and form into balls the size of hazelnuts. Drop the balls into the simmering mix.

- Add the cooked tapioca, sugar and langka. Stir and cook for 5 minutes.

- Serve hot or cold.

Hope you like it...