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Bibingka

Name: Bibingka
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Philippines
Ingredients: 250g Rice flour; 300ml Coconut milk; 100g Sugar; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 2 Egg; 4 Banana Leaves; 1 Salted Egg (sliced); 50g Melting Cheese; To taste Grated Coconut (topping)

Dessert

⏱ 50 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Batter poured onto banana leaves and baked with charcoal above and below — a traditional Filipino Christmas treat.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bibingka is a traditional rice-flour cake eaten in the Philippines after Simbang Gabi, the dawn masses of the Christmas season. It's distinguished by its unique method: batter is poured into a clay pot lined with banana leaves and baked with charcoal heat from above and below. It's classically topped with salted egg and cheese and eaten with coconut.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At dawn before Christmas, people line up at stalls near the church for charcoal-baked bibingka, warming their hands in the steam.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Rice flour 250g
Coconut milk 300ml
Sugar 100g
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Egg 2
Banana Leaves 4
Salted Egg (sliced) 1
Melting Cheese 50g
Grated Coconut (topping) To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix rice flour, coconut milk, sugar, baking powder, and eggs into a batter.
Line a pan with banana leaves and pour in the batter.
Top the batter with salted egg and cheese.
Bake in the oven or over charcoal from above and below at 180°C for 25–30 minutes.
Scatter grated coconut over the top when done.

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