Filipino
Ginataang Bilo-Bilo (Coconut Milk Stew with Rice Balls)
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Ginataang Bilo-Bilo (Coconut Milk Stew with Rice Balls) is Filipino home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the fresh side and the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Knead the glutinous rice flour with the water into a soft dough and roll into small marble-sized balls.
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Peel and cube the taro and sweet potato.
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Bring the coconut milk to a gentle simmer with the sugar, then add the taro and sweet potato and cook until nearly tender, about 10 minutes.
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Add the sliced saba banana and the rice balls, and simmer until the balls float and turn chewy and translucent, about 8 minutes.
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Serve warm in bowls, a rainy-afternoon merienda.
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Serve it with
A Filipino breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Ginataang Bilo-Bilo (Coconut Milk Stew with Rice Balls), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Ginataang Bilo-Bilo (Coconut Milk Stew with Rice Balls) carries coconut. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo) |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 480 kcal
- Protein
- 3 g
- Carbs
- 59 g
- Fat
- 26 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 15 g
- Sodium
- 10 mg
- Saturated fat
- 23 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Ginataang Bilo-Bilo (Coconut Milk Stew with Rice Balls) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. It is at its best in the monsoon, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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