What is the bibingka?

Bibing is food in the Philippines and is one of many varieties of rice cakes in the Philippine cuisine. Its taste is usually slightly sweet, with a little salty undertone for contrast. Depending on the versions, the texture of this rice cake can range from mushroom to sticky. It is also categorized as "cakanin", a collective term for food made of rice or rice flour. This type of pudding differs from the Philippine rice cake, because the first does not contain any rice ingredients and bakes several times after each class layer is added one by one. However, the cooking method is similar because both meals require and under the baking. The name Bibingka also has a Chinese influence because "bi" is a Chinese word for rice.

The primary components of the bibingka are rant flour mixed with water to form cream dough. Coconut water can replace ordinary water and add a clear taste. To make the cake softer and richer, you can add milk and eggs, along with some brown sugar to make the cake SLADký. Modern versions of the rice cake sometimes contain a small amount of butter that give both texture and flavor of more wealth.

The dough is then poured into individual muffin containers coated with banana leaf, which makes it easier to remove the bibingka during cooking and metal containers do not have to clean. The banana leaf also fragrance that the rice cake absorbs. The traditional way of cooking this rice cake can be tiring, as the clay furnace must be prepared in a certain way. The furnaces should be pre -pre -oversized under them before the muffins containers are placed on the surface. The containers are then covered with a leaf leaf in front of a basket of heated coal is located on top.

Bibingce can also be added various tops such as crushed coconut, sugar sprinkling, slice of salted duck eggs and even grated cheese. The common technique of adding these watering is to remove mybingky from the oven after slightlyRaise, place the icing, and then insert the granding back in the oven. The rice cake is then served while it is still warm, sometimes with a slice of butter on the side for blur.

Bibingka is especially common in the Christmas season during "Simbang Gabi" or midnight mass, occurring a few weeks before Christmas Eve. Churches would usually be sorted by many food retailers with several small clay furnaces, which are ready to serve rice cakes after mass. Bibingka is most often accompanied by a purple "Puto Bumbong", another type of "cakanin".