Ingredients:
2 cups glutinous rice (malagkit)
1 teaspoon lye water
water
banana leaf, cleaned
How to cook:
1. Soak the glutinous rice in water for 2-3 hours.
2. After soaking, drain excess water from the glutinous rice then add lye water and stir thoroughly.
3. Prepare the banana leaves.
4. Scoop about 2 tbsps of the rice mixture and place it over the leaf (about 12 by 10 inches in size)
5. Fold the leaf to secure the rice mixture and tie with strips of banana leaf.
6. Arrange the suman in a cooking pot then pour in enough water. Boil for 1 hour or until cooked.
7. Serve with sugar or condensed milk.
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Hi, thanks for publisching filipino foods. For us here in abroad are very important. We cook sometimes at home which is tradition for us as filipino living outside….Wish you more power ….
with respect….nita